Do you have a schizophrenic boat?

[Nostrodamus]

I just wondered if we were the only one with a schizophrenic boat.
When we go into a marina then the boat changes from a sailing boat into a home. Out come photos, plastic plants, shopping carts, electric ovens, electric kettles and away goes all the grab bags, sailing gear, charts and anything that uses gas.
Now I have to say that most of it is down to the better half who likes it to look more like a home if we are staying for a few days.
She is also the one with the sensible head as why use gas when the marina provides free electricity.
Then we have to change everything again when it is time to sail.
I suspect it might be a woman thing and the only change single male sailors make is to get the beer cans out.

 

[Tony Cross]

They say that everything on a boat should have two uses - for us that includes the boat! In the winter we're a houseboat, cockpit covers, pictures, trappings (even Xmas lights ) and in the summer we metamorphose into a sailing boat. We're still currently in houseboat mode at the moment waiting for "the man" to throw the summer switch.

 

[rivonia]

I just wondered if we were the only one with a schizophrenic boat.
When we go into a marina then the boat changes from a sailing boat into a home. Out come photos, plastic plants, shopping carts, electric ovens, electric kettles and away goes all the grab bags, sailing gear, charts and anything that uses gas.
Now I have to say that most of it is down to the better half who likes it to look more like a home if we are staying for a few days.
She is also the one with the sensible head as why use gas when the marina provides free electricity.
Then we have to change everything again when it is time to sail.
I suspect it might be a woman thing and the only change single male sailors make is to get the beer cans out.

+1 Like you it shmo who does all the re-arranging. Where are you to get free leccie?

 

[Nostrodamus]

They say that everything on a boat should have two uses - for us that includes the boat! In the winter we're a houseboat, cockpit covers, pictures, trappings (even Xmas lights ) and in the summer we metamorphose into a sailing boat. We're still currently in houseboat mode at the moment waiting for "the man" to throw the summer switch.

Same here Tony and the boat change is starting today.. or tomorrow... Hope to be moving in a week as the weather here has definitely changed, for the moment.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Trouble is we are not.
First place we have been to with metered electricity and we stay here the winter... Now there's forward planning for you

 

[prv]

In the winter we're a houseboat, cockpit covers, pictures, trappings (even Xmas lights ) and in the summer we metamorphose into a sailing boat.

I once designed a companionway that had a watertight washboard at sea, but could be fitted with a demountable front door for extended stays in harbour

Pete

 

[Tony Cross]

I once designed a companionway that had a watertight washboard at sea, but could be fitted with a demountable front door for extended stays in harbour

Pete

Now you've done it. Is there a filter on here that lets me stop SWMBO from seeing certain posts? Please?!!

 

[Nostrodamus]

You mean in winter you don't have a garden, deck chairs, shopping trolley and of course the satelight dish.?

 

[prv]

Now you've done it. Is there a filter on here that lets me stop SWMBO from seeing certain posts? Please?!!

It gets better - the overall design was largish and flush-decked, rather like a pilot cutter, with no sunken cockpit. The cockpit area was to be formed by deck boxes, running aft from a low deckhouse - see Tom Macnaughton's Crown Jewel design for the basic idea, though mine was tweaked a bit (with a higher and more protective deckhouse) for the bigger boat. Anyway, the reason you might want to deploy that SWMBO-filter is that I thought of having the deck boxes held by brackets and large bolts only, so for extended harbour stays you could unbolt them and move them around the flat deck into a more pleasing sitting arrangement. Perhaps even set up a folding patio table in between

(To be clear, this is not a boat I have any reasonable prospect of ever building, but I enjoy designing things.)

Pete

 

[tri39]

I just wondered if we were the only one with a schizophrenic boat.
I suspect it might be a woman thing and the only change single male sailors make is to get the beer cans out.

I admire you being teetotal at sea Mark!

 

[Tranona]

I once designed a companionway that had a watertight washboard at sea, but could be fitted with a demountable front door for extended stays in harbour

Pete

Hope it did not have a letter box in it otherwise you would have been bombarded with junk mail and free newspapers.

 

[rustybarge]

Hope it did not have a letter box in it otherwise you would have been bombarded with junk mail and free newspapers.

+1 the biggest advantage of liveaboard is no mail deliveries!! No bills, no aggro, no hassle; thats for landlubbers.

 

[Tony Cross]

+1 the biggest advantage of liveaboard is no mail deliveries!! No bills, no aggro, no hassle; thats for landlubbers.

I know....but it's so embarrassing having to pick up the porno mags from the marina office!