Good games for kids on boats

[Guest]

So, not I spy. GW started me off. here's some more.

1. Beach hockey. Much better that football. get the big black sticks intended for roller blade hockey, cut to suit. Lazies can thrasdh away in goal. Need tidal beach, fairly flat. minimum 2 a side

2. Old Fruit Cricket. Only feasible in warm med water. get old food and cricket bat. Batter stands on swim platform, bowler (dad) with food/fruit in water. Aim is to bowl in reach of batter, batters' aim is to destroy food with bat. Tomatoes and oranges v good, melon even better.

3. Scalextric. Set up scalextric in small berth, max 6x3. Astonishes visitors. Ideal with 12v supply, and small amount of space available for cars to lose themselves.

4. Simpsons TV memory game. Since the TV reception is rubbish, use a cheapy integrated TV/video
and buy all 20 or so Simpsons videos. Kids learn every single word, by heart. Only downside of this is that Mrs S got "mooned" when she went to tellem to go to bed.

5. Drive the boat out. Okay for easy berths, esp from stern-to med moorings, and good for teaching responsibility. Also huge larf. Small child starts engines, checks exhausts, directs release of stern and bowlines, and drives boat out. Crowd watches in disbelief.

6. Small superball in the saloon game. Lots of fascinating walls and corridor places to twang a (small!) superball around indoors whilst at sea. Good for under-eights, above that gets dangerous.


any other (vaguly safe and legal) ideas?

 

[jfm]

The fruit one sounds messy re collateral damage on decks? Also attacts piranas (sp?) and GW sharks poss?

Anyway:

1. Homework
2. Sony PS with "who wants to be millionaire" game
3. Pontoon racing using Go-Peds and manual-peds kept in lazarette (pref other side of marina, like E pontoon)
4 Fishing off swim platform
5. Driving tender fast underneath cats (not tried this yet, I heard someone had though)
6. Use passarelle as diving board, see who dares go highest, esp if extends fairly long and goes up to about 45%. Not in Wales.


JFM

 

[paulineb]

Cat Buckaroo !

You need a ship's cat for this one. See how many items you can pile onto your sleeping cat before it wakes up. Tip: start with small items like 1p, matchstick etc. We have two cats; Emmy the bitch cat from hell and Cracker the stupid git. The kids prefer to play this game with Cracker. Their record with him is 34p, 2 remote controls, 3 videos and a mobile phone - the only reason he woke up was because someone rang the mobile! Their record with Emmy is one grain of rice and a badly scratched hand.

Pauline B

 

[Guest]

Re: Cat Buckaroo !

Did they ring the mobile or text you any footbal results?

RJMW

 

[paulineb]

Re: Cat Buckaroo !

It was football results from last Saturday week when West Ham beat Newcastle 3-0.

Pauline B

 

[iangrant]

Buy a sailing boat, enjoy the water.

 

[Guest]

Re: Pah!

This is a bit borin' ...homework or sailing for hours and hours? I'm off to plpay on wignall's boat and try and shoot some fish!

 

[Guest]

Re: Pah!

Now, you've got to give em a sporting chance. So you can only shoot 'em airborne (either them or you, or both).

 

[Guest]

Re: aww

Blam blam blam blam blam blam blam hey geroff geroff I'm having my turn now, anyway that lady over there said it was ok to shoot the seagulls Dad can we have one of these too? each? A machine gun tho not the messing about filling with bullets. Oh please oh please.

 

[Guest]

Re: aww

LEAVE THE BILGE CLEANER ALONE FOR GOD'S SAKE...

 

[Guest]

Re: Pah!

I cannot beleive that youare so irresponsive AS TO ALLOW your children to play with guns. If I meet you I will report you to the CPA. AND THATs not an accountentas thing

 

[Guest]

Re: Pah!

Oh bugger off. I don't let anyone PLAY with guns. I intend to teach them how to handle and respect firearms, same way I was taught. Let them learn properly, get rid of the fascination, teach them what exactly they can do, and you stop a lot of the teenage shootings that plague the US.

Now if you want to be taken seriously, start acting grown up, and not like some spoilt kid. Apologise, lurk some more and get used to the humour, then join in gently.

 

[Guest]

Re: Getting back on track for a minute

Saw a great spoof pulled in Majorca. Big flash Squadron or something with five year old all on his own at the flybridge helm. Moored it up absolutely perfectly. Course Dad (or skipper??) was really driving from inside, but the wind up looked terrific. Lots of startled comments from the assembled throng of onlookers. "Ooh look Bert, that little kiddies driving that big boat. D'you think he's old enough". Nice one.