How gullible is your partner?

I have a related but different issue.

If I buy something of a significant cost, the co-owner thinks that because we can 'afford' that amount on the boat, we can also afford the same on something else.

Consequently, everything I buy for the boat costs me double ! :(
 
moodyNick said:
I have a related but different issue.

If I buy something of a significant cost, the co-owner thinks that because we can 'afford' that amount on the boat, we can also afford the same on something else.

Consequently, everything I buy for the boat costs me double ! :(
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That happens here too, only the sums are not exactly balanced.
 
SH-T CREEK

dylanwinter said:
Jill does not even know I am sailing around Britain

she still thinks I just keep moving the boat to find cheaper places to keep it

she also thinks that I changed boats to make it nicer for her


Dylan
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I think you better buy a large paddle Dylan, for when she finds out you are going to be in a creek filled with stuff that's rather difficult to sail through.
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A friend of mine had a Group A Peugeot 205 rally car worth around £8k at the time. He sold it and replaced it with £25k's worth of Group A Peugeot 309 rally car. No suspicion was caused as he had the new car painted the same colour as the previous, transferred the private plate, and bought new seats and equipment in the same colour. He got away with it to this day.
 
Ru88ell said:
A friend of mine had a Group A Peugeot 205 rally car worth around £8k at the time. He sold it and replaced it with £25k's worth of Group A Peugeot 309 rally car. No suspicion was caused as he had the new car painted the same colour as the previous, transferred the private plate, and bought new seats and equipment in the same colour. He got away with it to this day.
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i knew of a chap who always had Red motorbikes :)
 
I have mentioned this on another thread, so please bear with me... but there are two different types of money... Boat money and other money..Under the exchange rate, £300 on a dynema halyard is a good spend because it is boat money but 300 on a dress would be a waste! Never buy shoes, (unless deck shoes)


Now before you all suggest that I am living dangerously.... those are First Officers words, not mine.... ;););)
 
X wife got kind of upset when I bought a boat using the money we had saved for a new kitchen...

When she complained I pointed out I had not just bought a kitchen, it was a Galley... The harbour office heard about this and I was not allowed a bigger boat till she got a new kitchen..

I guess I should of known we where never going to last...:rolleyes:
 
the puritanical tyrant i flinch to has recently discovered my acquisition of a shipping container in a remote corner of the boat yard.

i explained that i needed it to relocate my boaty things so that she would thus be able to expand her marcosian shoe collection.

luckily, she is boat averse (other than to use its existence as a flagellation tool) and will never see said container or know that i have fitted an awning and pallet decking and have named it "the bolt hole". i thought about "love shack" but thought that the yard management might pay more attention than i would like.
 
Mrs Ripster still buys the "everything is for safety" bit or appears to. Though recently she did ask how the new solid brass saloon clock was a safety item - I mumbled something about tides and the importance of accurate timing. Unfortunately she remembered that my excuse to get an ipad 3G was mainly for the same reason - tide maps etc. So I claimed everything must have a back-up.

I am sure she knows really and looks upon me as big kid with access to a bank account. Do I mind?, no. If the cap fits enjoy wearing it!
 
Last straw for me was saw a nice 18ft skiboat while on holiday and she knew i was eying it up.Anyway took the number and after holiday phoned up and bought it...no probs BUT then nicked her car to do the 200 odd miles to collect it and on the way back trailer bearing exploded on the motorway....me busted:( On the other hand she never noticed when i sold another boat and replaced it with a new one even though it was in the garden:rolleyes:
 
Only just gullible enough. The boat account was the only one she didn't know about. So I had ten tenths of that one, come the day. Probably about the same as she had in some escape account. All's fair?

I do and have had great friends who indulge in sports which can cost a lot, and I'm staggered by the amounts that they sneak through. Just one example were two separate chaps who had actually no idea about how sails work. One was spending £2/300 a month on sailboard sails. The other, similar amounts on getting the performance of his boat up to perfection. For single-handed day sails limited by his extremely dry mooring - 90 mins average)?
 
I had a very gullible girlfriend at university who we had believing for the best part of a year that my friend Brian was actually identical twins called Brian and Derek. When her moped wouldn't start, she called the local honda dealer and said "My boyfriend, who knows about motorbikes, says the rubber band needs winding up". Bless her.

Frogmogwoman on the other hand is an extremely canny yorkshire lass, who it impossible to get anything past.
 
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