Daft Question

[Duster]

I recently read a quotation "The people with the largest swimming pools get to spend the least time in them"-
Does the forum think that this applies to boats?
Please discuss.

Regards mikej

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[Renegade_Master]

cue tcm old hack

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[hlb]

It seems to aply to me these days.

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Haydn

 

[Jerbro]

Extensive analysis shows this to be true, but also note smaller size boats e.g. ribs/tenders also less used....(not sure if the graph will show up in this post..)

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[Stingo]

Like this

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[Jerbro]

now why didnt that work for me?

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[tcm]

Re: Excellent lab work!

um, altho i do get to use the boat more than your graph wd indicate. However, I bet that on average, you may be right.

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[hlb]

Re: Excellent lab work!

Cud not sea where you were on the f geaph!!

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Haydn

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Am I reading your graph correctly? Is that 15 days, 15 trips or what per month? That cant be right. Even if you use your boat every weekend, thats only 8 days a month on average and I'm sure that most of us dont use our boats that much

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[Jerbro]

I just made it up. Sorry. Special apologies to the many students that PM'd me for source data.

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[whisper]

Excellent ! Nice one Jerbro. Suspect it might be against the spirit of the Forums though, so watch out.

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[oldgit]

Re: Mystery sudden unavailability of friends

Think problem is that once you go beyond a certain size,rounding up sufficient crew becomes problem.
Bad move in my opinion was the abolition of pressgang etc /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Duster]

Re: Mystery sudden unavailability of friends

I think that the philosophy of the original quote was , you spend so long at work to pay for expensive toys that you hardly get time to play with them.
Regards mikej

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[tcm]

bigger boats need more crew?

I don't think so. Of course, edgey sailboats need loads of people to erm shout at each other, wear all the matching jackets, sit on one side. But most sailboats and all powerboats only need a driver and a rope-thrower, and in anything les than a f6 just one person can do both, even on an 80-footer, no?



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[BrendanS]

Re: bigger boats need more crew?

Once you've become used to single handing, crew are an encumberance to well oiled routines, until they've been out with you a few times.


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