Do you speak to buoys !

[STATUE]

On my first single hander to Cherbourg and arriving in the morning mist I couldn't see CH1 buoy off said port.

I eventually worked out it was hidden behind a hove-to French stealth shaped frigate.

I thanked CH1 for its consistency in staying on station.

I have had a few conversations with the Long Sand Head and Elbow cardinals whilst using the 'Gravy Train' to cross the Thames' Estuary.

I don't think I am fearful or barmy - just plain friendly ... that's my opinion anyhow !

 

[sailorman]

I always give Neptune a drop of beer @ the start of a new season, so far so good :encouragement:

 

[jakeroyd]

I don't talk to buoys but I do talk to the boat.

 

[prv]

On my first single hander to Cherbourg and arriving in the morning mist I couldn't see CH1 buoy off said port.

You won't see it at all now, French frigate or no, since it's been removed and replaced with an AIS transmission

Pete

 

[Koeketiene]

I don't talk to buoys but I do talk to the boat.

+1

 

[pyrojames]

I talk to the boat. I think you are just bit more, err, gregarious!

 

[Porthandbuoy]

I always give Neptune a drop of beer @ the start of a new season, so far so good :encouragement:

Me too, but I filter it through my kidneys first.

 

[horatio_nelson]

I always say hello to the Needles fairway buoy when passing by - he sounds so sad when he hoots his horn

 

[fireball]

You only need to worry when they start answering back .....

 

[guernseyman]

when single-handing I talk to anything that will listen.

The first owner of our boat, Geraint Evans, admitted in his autobiography that when out of earshot of land he would sing.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

when single-handing I talk to anything that will listen.

The first owner of our boat, Geraint Evans, admitted in his autobiography that when out of earshot of land he would sing.

Also, if suitably powered up, you can break wind as an accompaniment .


Oh ! The freedoms of single handing............

 

[ronsurf]

I often talk to strange buoys. The ones I see often don't get much conversation

 

[Shearwater]

I find I am now apologising to inanimate objects. I kick something that had a right to be there, like the hoover, and say sorry to it. Otherwise I am quite sane. Quate sine. Quine sate.
Henostly

Ybe!

 

[Daydream believer]

I always say hello to my boat when I go aboard.
She gives a little rocking motion in reply so I know she understands


I do sail single handed quite a lot these days, so my boat & I have some seriously good chats
my wife says It is because no body likes me
My daughter seems to think it has something to do with my ageing mental state

 

[martyn78]

When I had a wooden Folkboat I have had many a conversation with the world and my boat, especially at sunrise or sunset.
I remember having an argument with myself, when it got out of hand and I decided on a stiff, long drink....... It worked.

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

Every time I go past or into Haslar Marina with those 2 big buoys guarding the car park ... "'ello buoys!" ... I say it every time and it still makes me giggle ... sad really!

 

[horatio_nelson]

I always say thanks and goodbye to my boat when leaving her after a sail

 

[mcframe]

I always say hello to the Needles fairway buoy when passing by - he sounds so sad when he hoots his horn

I always wave my hand at Sconce.

The charts says "Wave operated buoy" and so far, it's never failed to ring its bell in reply...

 

[Iain C]

I always say thanks and goodbye to my boat when leaving her after a sail

^Yep!

And when racing the Fireball, when it's just a boatspeed drag race down a lairy reach, I'm talking to the boat like it's a horse that's about to finish a close second in the Grand National or something. "Come on girl, come on, big gust, we can f****** have 'em on this one, come on you ******". Bear in mind that it has been scientifically proven that all dinghies are faster when you swear at them, there's a bit of me thinking that if I borrowed one of the missus' riding crops and slapped the back tank rather than trimmed the mainsheet, there's another knot to be squeezed out there too...

Only issue is I usually find I'm on the end of a similar verbal assault coming from the end of the trapeze wire...

 

[Daydream believer]

there's a bit of me thinking that if I borrowed one of the missus' riding crops and slapped the back tank rather than trimmed the sheet, there's another knot to be squeezed out there too...

..

Just do not let the misstress get her hands on the riding crop. they tend to get a bit too enthusiastic