ShipsWoofy
Well-Known Member
I have a ....
Chart plotter and I am proud, sometimes I don't even look at a paper chart. I also use a wind display and like it. Occasionally I even watch the portable television on my boat. I enjoy this new fangled electricity stuff and do try to respect it.
I do not use hank on sails, I do not know what that bit of string is called, quite often I can't tell you the correct term for which way the wind is approaching the boat and horror; I sometimes have to look up the col regs to make sure I understand what the hell people are talking about on sailing forums.
I do not have fender socks, and will use a manky ol' rope rather than trying to impress with clean and shiny stuff. Once, I even used a screwdriver on my boat without help from a yard, though I did not check if the screw was A2, A3 or A4. I buy glues and paints at builders yards and sometimes wood. If I can avoid a chandlers I will, in fact I do not have to use tissues on the odd occasion I do visit.
Sometimes I buy cheap oil and filters without a two week panic building up to the event, the engines are based on cement mixer types, the type they will put paraffin oil in if there is nothing else to hand. Once I ran my engines to charge the batteries on the mooring, I have not slept properly since.
Once I had a glass of wine at the helm and did not feel guilty…..
Does this make me a pretend sailor, I mean, I don' t even keep my boat in the Solent where the real sailors are, cos they keep telling me so.
Sometimes we laugh, drink, eat and sleep on board.
Do I need therapy?
Chart plotter and I am proud, sometimes I don't even look at a paper chart. I also use a wind display and like it. Occasionally I even watch the portable television on my boat. I enjoy this new fangled electricity stuff and do try to respect it.
I do not use hank on sails, I do not know what that bit of string is called, quite often I can't tell you the correct term for which way the wind is approaching the boat and horror; I sometimes have to look up the col regs to make sure I understand what the hell people are talking about on sailing forums.
I do not have fender socks, and will use a manky ol' rope rather than trying to impress with clean and shiny stuff. Once, I even used a screwdriver on my boat without help from a yard, though I did not check if the screw was A2, A3 or A4. I buy glues and paints at builders yards and sometimes wood. If I can avoid a chandlers I will, in fact I do not have to use tissues on the odd occasion I do visit.
Sometimes I buy cheap oil and filters without a two week panic building up to the event, the engines are based on cement mixer types, the type they will put paraffin oil in if there is nothing else to hand. Once I ran my engines to charge the batteries on the mooring, I have not slept properly since.
Once I had a glass of wine at the helm and did not feel guilty…..
Does this make me a pretend sailor, I mean, I don' t even keep my boat in the Solent where the real sailors are, cos they keep telling me so.
Sometimes we laugh, drink, eat and sleep on board.
Do I need therapy?
