How long have you owned your boat...?

[Romeo]

thank you. Shows a slight lack of imagination though. I am sure grandpa would be perplexed as to why we were still sailing his boat. Modern when he got her!

 

[NealB]

Crikey - I'm such a boat tart ....I tend to change boats about every 2 years (I've lost count of them now, but it's at least a dozen boats, so far, excluding dinghies).

Longest was a beautiful wooden, Tidewater class gaff cutter - seven years custody.

 

[Tranona]

Boat 46 years old. Owned 29 years. Fell asleep in the cabin todayfor half an hour after putting sails on. Deck beams looked exactly the same when I woke up as they did 29 years ago!

 

[James_Calvert]

24 years - from new.

But my oldest bit of kit on board is a dinghy anchor (thames pattern) plus its new-fangled terylene warp that my father bought some 45 years ago

Any one else got a bit of rope in use that old?

 

[oughtoc]

Ermm, can I go for youngest? - we pick her up sometime near the end of the month. She is 50 next year.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Nine years out of 29.

 

[Kawasaki]

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Any one else got a bit of rope in use that old?

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James . Tut Tut.
A bit of rope, on a boat?

I know your Father must have educated You about strings and stuff!
I know mine did.
Flip, I cringe sometimes when I ask a newbie or crew to 'pass me that string on the left'!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Aeolus_IV]

Aeolus is now 36 years old, I've been her third owner for the last 7 or so years. Before that a collection of dinghies for probably about 15 years.

Jeff.

 

[dombuckley]

Two boats: owned one for 11 years out of 52 (9th owner), the other for 27 years out of 51 (2nd owner).

Longest individual ownership I've come across was a little wooden cutter I surveyed, still in original ownership after 54 years. Needless to say, she was absolutely sparkling.

 

[[10753]]

21 years of her 39

 

[Evadne]

My first boat and I've had her for 24 years. She is 46 years old. I decided to keep her until I needed a bigger boat, but that day hasn't come. She's as not as old as some, like me, but not bad for a grp boat.

 

[DJE]

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Answering another post, I just realized I have owned my 30 year old boat for 15 years, this season.
Can anyone beat this?....I bet you can

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A similar symmetry for us. We've owned our 20 year old boat for 10 years. Before us she had done the rounds with 4 previous owners but she seems to have settled with us. Previous boat was a Wayfarer dinghy which we had for 18 years!

 

[James_Calvert]

My father was a bit confusing.

Rope to him meant wire rope.

The other stuff was called cordage or lashings.

So we called them by their function eg painter....

 

[Twister_Ken]

It's an old sailing club quiz question - "What is the only rope you'll find on a sailing boat?"

Answers in a plain brown envelope, accompanied by a tenner.

 

[StugeronSteve]

The one in grope. Haven't got a tenner handy, so will a couple of baritones do?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Wrong.

 

[Evadne]

The one on the bell?

 

[Romeo]

soap on a rope?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Wrong

Wrong

 

[StugeronSteve]

The one used as a rubbing strake. I'll raise my offer by another baritone, but that's your lot.