How Important Is Getting there in Comfort?

[Wiggo]

Vital. If it's going to be uncomfortable, we don't go. I'm not quite sure I understand why you would go somewhere if it was going to be bad, unless you were a masochist.

Sometimes, the weather turns crappy, and it's necessary to Get Back in Discomfort, but even that's a relative thing, cos if it's absolutely bloody horrid, you can always leave the boat behind and come home some other way.

Unless you got stuck somewhere stupid, which probably reflects on your seamanship.

So we are pretty relaxed about the whole boating thing - it's not a competitive sport, after all - and if the weather's iffy, we can stay aboard and use her a holiday home: there's plenty to do locally.

Of course, if every weekend was so crappy we couldn't go out, I would either move to a different boating area or buy a cottage (assuming where we were was so picturesque it was warranted).

What would you do?

 

[Gludy]

That is not really a fair question Wiggy - very biased in fact!

 

[Wiggo]

Is it? I can understand your wanting options on speed, and being able to take the ground to get into all those little out of the way places. It's the bit about the weather being permanently so crap you can't go out that puzzles me. I know that the boat is more or less on your doorstep, what with the business being based in Brecon, so maybe there was the problem.

We long ago concluded that living too close to the boat is A Bad Thing - you tend to get too picky about conditions. Having driven an hour and a half (and we're lucky compared to some round here), we tend to make the most of it. So if the weather's a bit blowier than we'd have liked, we might just go into town for the day.

If you've decided to change the sort of boating you do - great, enjoy it. But everyone's different: don't expect you can convince us all to switch to Traders on the basis of a finely honed intellectual argument.

If I had a Squaddie and the conditions were usually too poor for enjoyable trips, I'd move. But I shan't try and convince you to do the same.

 

[whisper]

Some of us actually enjoy being out in rough weather - don't we? Perhaps this is just a small boatowner's fetish /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Gludy]

Wiggo
My boat is an hours drive away som not as long as you but not much in it.

I am really not expecting to convince evryone or anyone. I simply asked the question about the pririty of folks and where they place comfort of the others on the boat .... thats all. As it happens a useful discussion took place in part of it but I am still awaiting the answers to some finer points.

I would like to do a round Britain trip and also do some long distance med work. In addition I just want to get there in better comfort than I do now and so chose to go to another type of boat. That is neither right or wrong - its up to the individual.

The real discussion on thsi thread is about how SD baots V planing boats handle at sea ... all the rest is just froth.

 

[Wiggo]

Ah, well, there's the problem, then innit? Apart from my Sealine (obviously), the perfect hull for all conditions hasn't been built yet. So the Trader's going to be as rough as a badger's arse in some unspecified set of conditions and the Squaddie would have been ideal. I'm sure we'd enjoy being out on the Trader, but for the sort of boating we do, possibly less so than on our jellymould. Most of the time. Then again, there'd always be a day when you could go out, and we could go shopping.

Life's a compromise, as I keep telling the SWMBO: she wants to do X, I want to Y, so we compromise and do X...