How long before your bored on a motor boat?

Nostrodamus said:
So, someone gives you a nice big motor boat and as much fuel as you can use. You have all the creature comforts including tv, washing machine, wi fi, plush interior, large spacious bedrooms and lots of horse power. Everything you need is aboard including a well stocked drinks cabinet.

How long would it take before you got bored and hankered to be back on your sail boat?
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I would have fun selling it and then buy a sailing yacht with the money.
 
aslabend said:
I think if you gave me a mobo and all the fuel I could use and the west coast of Scotland to play in I could bimble around for a summer most happily. A stop here, a distillery tasting there, drop the anchor and climb a Munroe, fish a bit. Great fun, but in a way it'd only be like your best caravan holiday but on water.

I'd miss the sailing. The fact that a sail boat is slow (well mine is anyway) means it takes a bit off effort to get anywhere and not only does that effort make it seem more worthwhile but it makes you appreciate where you get to just that little bit more. Or so I think, maybe? Do all motorboats really have a drinks cabinet?
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A drinks cabinet, and some cocktail waitresses to tend to my every need would make a huge difference to my enjoyment of a MoBo. I might even get to like it.:p
 
Elessar said:
Typical passage, 6 knots, autopilot on, have lunch without it sliding off the table, generally relax and enjoy being on the water.
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*engine noise and vibration in the background

Mrs E says , "I'd like dinner at 8". So that means shower at 1900, need to tie up/anchor at 1830. A quick adjustment of the passage plan and I announce that we'll go to planing speed at 1645.
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*even louder engine noise and vibration

We tie up at 1830, and life is good.
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*Agreed, peace at last.



Best thing about sailing is when the engine is turned off.
 
The sheer expense would frighten me. I heard a mobo owner saying it cost him £300 in fuel to come from Portsmouth to Brighton!!...I didn't see his boat but I imagine it must have been a big 'un..:eek:
But horses for courses..if they can afford it, good luck to them..:)
 
ricky_s said:
Motor boats and sail boats are like chalk and cheese.

Sailing seems to be about suffering and doing things as cheaply as possible while motor boats are mainly about arriving, hooking up to the mains in the marina of choice and then hitting the town for a nice meal after showering and getting dressed up nicely.

Different worlds.
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Spot on.
How many actually spend their time "sailing" anyway ? most seem to be motoring ;)
 
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Nostrodamus said:
So, someone gives you a nice big motor boat and as much fuel as you can use. You have all the creature comforts including tv, washing machine, wi fi, plush interior, large spacious bedrooms and lots of horse power. Everything you need is aboard including a well stocked drinks cabinet.

How long would it take before you got bored and hankered to be back on your sail boat?
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I don't know. A lot would depend on whether it would go into shallow water and take the ground ok. Buy me one and I wll let you know !
 
Barnac1e said:
About ten years ago a rich Swiss friend of a friend with whom I worked, with a mobo on the Lake of Constance, bought a mega-yacht in Croatia and asked me, with my Adriatic experience, to accompany him for his first-ever excursion into salt-water cruising. At first I refused, it just wasn't my world nor my interest. However, my colleague who would also be aboard, kept the pressure on and I eventually agreed to a week of luxury and boredom.

It was an 'interesting' experience, but I wouldn't repeat it. I remain friends with the owner and we meet up often in some Croatian anchorage – once even a marina, which he had pre-paid for me – and I am royally wined and dined aboard, served by the permanent catering staff. What is beginning to grate is that I am always asked to show the guests aboard my own modest craft, ferrying them in my tiny inflatable, to ooh and aah at how anyone can live so simply as I do when cruising. “Tell them how you once cooked spaghetti in sea water, but it was too salty”, I once had to put up with, deeply regretting having once explained how I conserved my limited supplies. I am beginning to feel like some zoo specimen arranged to entertain the latest round of guests.
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That's more to do with an insensitive friend than the MOBO...surely?
 
ricky_s said:
Motor boats and sail boats are like chalk and cheese.

Sailing seems to be about suffering and doing things as cheaply as possible while motor boats are mainly about arriving, hooking up to the mains in the marina of choice and then hitting the town for a nice meal after showering and getting dressed up nicely.

Different worlds.
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I was there with you, right up to the point of "getting dressed up nicely".
Substitute "trying to find a shirt without too much diesel on"...

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I don't think anybody quoted this little tale yet:

A motorboat and a yacht both head out of the harbour. The motorboat comes alongside the yacht and the skipper hails- "how long till we get there?". The sailing boat skipper replies "we've already arrived!"
 
Robwhelton said:
I don't think anybody quoted this little tale yet:

A motorboat and a yacht both head out of the harbour. The motorboat comes alongside the yacht and the skipper hails- "how long till we get there?". The sailing boat skipper replies "we've already arrived!"
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Exactly!
 
Elessar said:
I get bored when I go boating without my wife. And she just doesn't see the point of mucking around with sails when 2 thumping great engines will do the job. I love sailing, but not for too long therefore.
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After a particularly wet and windy beat across Lyme Bay my wife (I'm not allowed to use the SWMBO term - spot the irony) was considering the virtues of MOBO. Then she spotted the "mate" through the patio doors on the MOBO beside us - vacuuming the saloon carpet and decided to stick with sails.
 
Let's face it - most of us have motor boats. It's just that some of them have auxiliary sails.

Once upon a time, most yachts had just sails, no engine at all. (There were such things as steam yachts - the purchase and running costs of these would put a Mobo in the shade.) So, for most yachtsmen, going from A to B was entirely dependent on wind (and tide)power. Now that would be a test of skill which few modern yachtsmen could handle. My admiration for the few that can.
 
Is there a " sailing version"perhaps more Eco friendly cheaper , in the aeronautical - planes / copters , motor - bikes and cars - pass time - sport- hobbie , mod of transport call it what you wil ??

Thousands of people use/ participate and have fun playing/ using all this type of kit?, engine powerd not exactly Eco
They have made informed choises before purchase surly?
Happy to cope with the engine issue ,speed that comes with the hobbie

They could go rambling or bird watching or take up angling.
Each to their own inc jet skis- ( sorry I just could,nt resist )
 
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Portofino said:
Is there a " sailing version"perhaps more Eco friendly cheaper , in the aeronautical - planes / copters , motor - bikes and cars - pass time - sport- hobbie , mod of transport call it what you wil ??

Thousands of people use/ participate and have fun playing/ using all this type of kit?, engine powerd not exactly Eco
They have made informed choises before purchase surly?
Happy to cope with the engine issue ,speed that comes with the hobbie

They could go rambling or bird watching or take up angling.
Each to their own inc jet skis- ( sorry I just could,nt resist )
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Yer on yer own on a jetski:D
ie pillon's bikini top has fallen off again:cool:
 
blackbeard said:
Let's face it - most of us have motor boats. It's just that some of them have auxiliary sails.

Once upon a time, most yachts had just sails, no engine at all. (There were such things as steam yachts - the purchase and running costs of these would put a Mobo in the shade.) So, for most yachtsmen, going from A to B was entirely dependent on wind (and tide)power. Now that would be a test of skill which few modern yachtsmen could handle. My admiration for the few that can.
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Every modern yachtsman could handle it, except for possibly docking under sail, although the sheer number of boats and marina's in harbour make this a much more difficult job than back in the day.

Whether or not they choose to sail is up to them at any given point.

To my mind MOBO's are all my least favourite parts of sailng.
 
I see the argument from both sides. The last boat was a motorboat as the other half refused to get on anything with sails. Running a motorboat has both pros and cons, as does a yacht.

The last straw for me was the cost for a weekend poodle out. I like the challange of sailing, yet on the other hand the ease of using a motorboat. All things considered, I'll stick with the challange of sailing. Its a lot more satisfying.
 
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