How come cockpits never look like this at boat shows?

[Twister_Ken]

 

[DJE]

I seem to remember a piece in YM a while back which included a rant about the horrors of having all lines lead back to the cockpit. Now who wrote that I wonder?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Guess I was right! It's just that halyard bags are so useful for storing food, drink, mobile phones, sudoko books...

 

[Pete7]

"How come cockpits never look like this at boat shows?"

Well they normally have crew on board.

Pete

 

[Tomahawk]

That is tudy..
I will take a photo of our cockpit when we are next under sail...

It is a veritable cats cradle....

 

[rotrax]

Our boat has nice boxes built into the cockpit suround for the mainsheet and main halyard on the starboard side and the self tacking staysail sheet and reefing lines on the port side. There are also recesses for the jib reefing line to starboard and ditto to port for the staysail outhaul and reefing line.

We take care to keep it tidy when under way-just as the designer obviously intended.

 

[aslabend]

How come cockpits never look like this at boat shows? [/QUOTE

That's not a real cockpit! where's the coffee stain where the mobo wash caught you out in the act of supping and the huge bird dropping that seems unfeasibly large considering the size of the average ****ehawk?

 

[Daydream believer]

Actually he is motoring so that does not count as a yacht even with with mainsail set
It's what can one expect of motor boaters
totaly slovenly
by the way cannot see the cone at that angle
Would I see one at all if we had a fuller view?

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Looks typical of a white caravaner!

 

[Baggy]

I hate all that spaghetti in the cockpit... drives me

Granny bars at the mast is the way to go ( for me anyway )

 

[davidaprice]

by the way cannot see the cone at that angle

Cone! Thanks! Still got ours up from yesterday when the wind dropped and we left the mainsail up in the hope it'd return. Now motoring in a dead calm, must take the thing down.

 

[gregcope]

What is wrong with it. Far too tidy.

You should see ours!

 

[[70521]]

Well they normally have crew on board.

And the boats are not actually going anywhere.

 

[ricky_s]

It's what can one expect of motor boaters
totaly slovenly

You sure? Motor boats are usually very tidy because our swmbos have vacuum cleaners etc. on board.

Im always quite envious of sailboats with outboards and other bits of kit randomly attached on rails and generally scattered all over the boat.

 

[Grumpybear]

A stepladder appears to be propped up against the main sheet. Where have you stowed the wheelbarrow? And was the picture taken by a naval officer?

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

You sure? Motor boats are usually very tidy because our swmbos have vacuum cleaners etc. on board.

Im always quite envious of sailboats with outboards and other bits of kit randomly attached on rails and generally scattered all over the boat.

Yeah we need all those bits an bobs to occupy our advanced minds!

 

[Spi D]

Boat shows are there to feed & fertilize your dreams. Reality is (most often) a bit different.

Like the difference between our weather and the one always shown in brochures eg.

 

[ricky_s]

Yeah we need all those bits an bobs to occupy our advanced minds!

That explains things