I actually look forward to the weekends so I can work on the boat

Pretty much every one of my weekends until the end of March is booked up with boat work. And it's not fun work, it's all gritty getting hands dirty work.

But hey, she's a demanding mistress! Can't let her down.
 
And me! I even sleep on it after my days job list is completed. If I go home I always feel sad and almost bored. It's just somewhere to relax and get away from work and the hustle and bustle of life :) can't wait till lift in! Regret taking her out of the water but there's a few jobs that need doing.
 
I actually can't wait for mine to be lifted out next week so I can get to work on her. The joy of boating is not only the sailing, but the tinkering and handy work too, without a doubt.:)
 
The jobs on the boat can sometimes be more fun than the sailing, we have a few in our club who never seem to put their boats in the water but just love tinkering with them and using them to sleep on after a night in the clubhouse.
 
One thing I love doing is unscrewing a panel just to see what's behind there, or following a wire around the panels and headlining to see where it goes. I love finding new parts of the boat that I have never explored before. That's the bonus of recently buying one.
 
I only work 2 days a week so i get a 5 day weekend effectively to work on my boat, and as i live on my boat, its a good thing that i enjoy working on boats !
 
tom_sail said:
One thing I love doing is unscrewing a panel just to see what's behind there, or following a wire around the panels and headlining to see where it goes. I love finding new parts of the boat that I have never explored before. That's the bonus of recently buying one.
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I had fun doing this. Shortly followed by ripping out 30 years' worth of redundant wiring.

Now putting some of it back for the new gadgets.

It's a never ending cycle.
 
SPOTTYDOG3 said:
Not at all, I do the same, part of the joy of boating for me.
Im going to do some more tomorrow..
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I quite like the intellectual challenge of winter work - you know what's on the boat, and you know what's at home, so have to think through the tools etc. you need to take ~70 miles.

Proper Planning Prevents, etc

"Would that be better with a ring spanner 'cos a ratchet one or socket won't fit? Ah!, but I'll need to /also/ hold the "other" end - Where's that stud puller?..."

"I'm on shore power, so can use a proper soldering iron/mains drill; now what bits do I need?..."

"I can prep/varnish *this* bit of wood at home, so on the boat, I just need to drill some pilot holes and screw it on, with *these* screws, but I'll need to countersink *that*..."

It might be slightly borderline OCD, but I have made up nice little piles of kit+tools+fastners+glue/paint/sealant to chuck in the back of the car - it saves panic trips to the chandler.

Luckily, my employer pays for all the mid-week thinking time, so I just do the "implementation" at the w/e ;-)
 
I have said this before but the day I bought my first boat I was in the pub with a good mate who had owned boats for years. He said:

"Remember when you used to go to sleep thinking about women? - not anymore"
 
Cardo said:
Unfortunately, we've stripped everything out of ours so we can't sleep on her over the weekend. Looking forward to getting her back into a better shape so she's habitable again.
At least the heater works again!
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That's no excuse. When we'd stripped our forepeak (and the entire interior of the boat for that matter) to the bare hull, I laid down a dust sheet and taped it up the inside of the hull to keep the sleeping bags from picking up itchy GRP bits. Added a couple of carrymats to give a notion of padding on the bare locker tops and we were sorted.

Another weekend, we painted the bilges in the morning assuming the solvents would have dispersed by bedtime. They hadn't, so we slept in the car. Fortunately an estate in which the seats folded to provide a perfectly flat space of six feet in length. We'd probably have gone home that night except for the fact that the latter part of the evening's work had been conducted whilst consuming a reasonable quantity of wine and beer.
 
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