Dogs onboard

[Birdseye]

Was it a live-aboard? It might depend whether they ever go sailing (or not). Some years ago now, but we did go sailing with two Golden Retrievers. No problem in calm weather, but when the boat started heeling they wanted to sit on our laps and get a reassuring cuddle. Which was alright if we had enough spare hands on deck, otherwise it could become a blooming nuisance!

You're lucky. Our dog was sea sick on my bunk.

 

[Wansworth]

Cats are more suited

 

[Tomaret]

I don't like dogs, and cannot understand any sane person, particularly yotties, wanting the burden of something that smells, shits, bites & kills children at its own convenience and adds to the complication of life. If I'm on my boat, I don't want to factor in a visit, or any action actually, that requires thinking "Oh, but the dogs got to shit/eat/walk/sleep".
At our marina I've twice been told that when a dog has growled at me that "It's OK!"
No it's not, I don't like dogs and don't see why I should have to tolerate someone else's toy in a non dog specific communal place. I expect to see dogs when I'm out walking, when I'm at the beach where the b'stards are encouraged to shit in the same area that kids play, I do expect them there, but on a pontoon in a marina; bugger off.
Korean & Viet restaurants have a good policy with them, as well as a variety of sauces.

Your boat, your rules. Somebody else’s Marina, their rules, and there are too many dog owning sailors who take their dogs with them from time to time for Marinas to want to ban them. Personally, I take my dog sailing with me from time to time and adjust my sailing to accommodate her needs, just as I do when I’m sailing with any other crew.

 

[Wansworth]

Forever in my memory is the man and his dog who came down to the yacht club and boarded an immaculate Lymington Scow and set sail.The dog sat quietly looking over the cloambing whilst the owner at at the he smoking his pipe

 

[Concerto]

Cats are more suited

I remember sailing with our cat in 1965. For the litter tray we had to use peat, so took loads of bags of peat. Then when we reached Newhaven from the Medway, the cat decide she had enough and hopped onto the motorboat we were tied to. She found an open porthole and slipped into the cabin and found a comfortable place to get some rest. The boat was locked as the owners had gone ashore. When they returned my parents explained the problem. Luckily they were cat lovers and returned her to our boat. It could have been far worse if she had gone ashore.

 

[dgadee]

We were in Gibraltar, our cockpit alongside the fore deck of a power boat. Dog shit sat there all day. Dogs would be ok in public if they weren’t such shit machines.

 

[capnsensible]

I reckon, in general, people who like dogs just can't understand people who don't like dogs.

I'm sure I know which group is in the very large majority....and which one I'm in.

 

[Luminescent]

If people truly care about dogs, why would they take them on a boat? Sorry folks I just don't get that.

I probably won't be getting another dog after this one. If you're a live aboard then a GS is not the best plan but sometimes we come into the boating world pre-packaged. It takes a bit of time but most dogs will cope happily with a boat.

... just don't forget the carpet.

 

[dgadee]

I reckon, in general, people who like dogs just can't understand people who don't like dogs.

I quite like them, just not the shit all over the place.

But I don't really understand dog lovers. I had friends with a brute of a dog (Hound of the Baskervilles look alike) which could only be taken out early in the morning for a run because it would kill any other dog it saw. It cost them a fortune in vets' fees - even when they were hard up and I had to give them a loan - and when it eventually went to the dog toilet in the sky they had its ashes put on their mantelpiece. Deeply odd.

 

[Wansworth]

Iwas a cat person until we rented a cottage and a dog turned up,bit Mankey and battered.For some reason it took to us and by the end of the first month it quite settled in.Understood plain English although Galician.Looked after our youngest daughter on her excursions,nice dog so since then we have had a dog

 

[LittleSister]

High centre of gravity

Would you recommend a Dachshund in preference for this particular application, then?

 

[LittleSister]

Reminds me that it used to be said that a Thames Barge might be crewed by just a man, a boy and a dog.

But it had to be a bloody good dog!

 

[Concerto]

I lost my sailing companion nearly 3 years ago. She was very well behaved and only started sailing when she was 6 years old. She never disgraced herself onboard and only once on the pontoon in 6 years.


Just having a nap.


I wish there was a better place to rest my head.


Even under spinnaker, I need my rest.

 

[mjcoon]

I reckon, in general, people who like dogs just can't understand people who don't like dogs.

I'm sure I know which group is in the very large majority....and which one I'm in.

It's quite simple: liking dogs is pure emotion; dislike is plain logic!

 

[Wansworth]

Would you recommend a Dachshund in preference for this particular application, then?

Make good drought excluders

 

[Wansworth]

Reminds me that it used to be said that a Thames Barge might be crewed by just a man, a boy and a dog.

But it had to be a bloody good dog!

One skipper I sailed with worked a sailing barge with one hand and boarder collie,incredibly intelligent,except for pooping on the ropes

 

[Luminescent]

which could only be taken out early in the morning for a run because it would kill any other dog it saw.

I have this problem :/. At home the dog is fine out on a walk... not so fine. I've been having trouble finding an accessible dog trainer but it's fitting it in with work commitments (both mine and theirs). I put it down to poor socialization and unfortunately, hands up, I suck at socialization, it's me that needs the training rather than the dog. The dog is really friendly with humans (kids/adults), small furry things though...

 

[Chiara’s slave]

No room for a litter tray on a trailable trimaran, so our cat stays at home. You just need to know a few 9 year old girls, if your cat is as fluffy as ours. They will pop in and feed/cuddle her.

 

[Koeketiene]

Cats are more suited

And they taste just like rabbitt.

 

[fredrussell]

While we’re on the subject, any of you have experience of a whippet or Italian greyhound as a seadog ? Considering the acquisition of a new best friend.

I can say with, for once, complete authority on the subject, that Whippets and their ilk are the worst dogs for a boat. Without exception. They are crap at swimming (very low body fat = not very floaty), they have spindly legs and paws so not much propulsion when swimming, and they HATE water. Mine looks at me with contempt if I try to make him go out in the garden when the grass is wet.