How to stop 'tearing up £50 notes standing in a cold shower'?

[ProDave]

Any suggestions?

Move closer to the coast?

Your location suggests you live just about as far away from the sea as it's possible to get in the British Isles. One reason we didn't even think about buying a boat until we moved a LOT closer to the sea.

A lot of your costs in money, time, and frustration, must just be getting to and from the boat.

 

[Sailfree]

I have always found that the grin of the sailor in an old 24' boat sailing in a fair wind is just as broad as the sailor in his latest £500,000 purchase.

 

[Babylon]

Move closer to the coast?

Your location suggests you live just about as far away from the sea as it's possible to get in the British Isles. One reason we didn't even think about buying a boat until we moved a LOT closer to the sea.

A lot of your costs in money, time, and frustration, must just be getting to and from the boat.

It doesn't actually take that long, about an hour and a half door-to-hatch as the A34 dual carriageway and the M3/M27 are normally fast-moving. But that does mean that I don't tend to go down for just a day sail, or decide to go out on a whim.

However, aside from being completely unable to move for work and child reasons - and aside from the increasing cost of fuel - I quite like not having the boat right on my doorstep. So I get to enjoy full-on cuntryside, then I get full-on sailing.

Until the schools break up for the summer holidays, my weekends are currently broken in half (I see my son on Saturdays), but this suits me as I have six weeks off from July to Sept, so I've changed the way I see sailing: no longer a regular weekend thing (except bank holidays), but a get-the-boat-ready-for-a-decent-summer-cruise thing.

Now, where shall I go?

 

[Babylon]

I have always found that the grin of the sailor in an old 24' boat sailing in a fair wind is just as broad as the sailor in his latest £500,000 purchase.

 

[Chrissie]

I have always found that the grin of the sailor in an old 24' boat sailing in a fair wind is just as broad as the sailor in his latest £500,000 purchase.

nah, its a bigger broader grin from the little boat,

 

[mikeinkwazi]

+2
I got myself a Folkboat having sold the Gaff Cutter which was 37ft including bowsprit. Sailed 16 days so far this season, which is more than last years total with the gaffer.

 

[V1701]

Move closer to the coast?

Your location suggests you live just about as far away from the sea as it's possible to get in the British Isles. One reason we didn't even think about buying a boat until we moved a LOT closer to the sea.

A lot of your costs in money, time, and frustration, must just be getting to and from the boat.

Even better move aboard! I live on my Vega, very economical to run/maintain, could have a lot bigger but very happy thankyou...

 

[Chrusty 1]

I have always found that the grin of the sailor in an old 24' boat sailing in a fair wind is just as broad as the sailor in his latest £500,000 purchase.

Or even a 22 footer, grinning has naff all to do with how big or how much. My mooring is about 100 yards from my house, and being retired, if I want to go, I can just go, I don't need crew, I don't want crew most of the time, though a good mate along for the crack is good sometimes. Marinas and all that yotty bonhomie does my head in, a good passage with a fair wind, terminating at the head of an isolated creek, with nothing but a few sea birds for company, is about as near to heaven as it gets for me.

Not everybody's idea of sailing perhaps, but it suits me.

 

[dratsea]

to misquote Jaws:

you are going to need a smaller boat