I cannot express enough irritation at Holiday Showdown- can you?

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dralex

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Remember last year when there was a blanket ad on the forums for families to take part in a holiday swap. Now I love a bit of conflict, but I cannot believe how contrived, pre meditated and staged the show was.

The show will do nothing but strengthen the "Yottie" stereotype of blustering fools with too much money. I feel the "sailing family" chosen were very unrepresentative of the thousands of families who frequently show other families how great sailing can be. The skipper dad was obviously lacking confidence and that showed in how he shouted and flapped at the crew.

Bite tongue, count to 10, pad my forehead in preparation for banging itvery hard against the wall.
 
I shouldnt worry to much friend. Anyone necking 7 pints whilst in charge of children on a sailing holiday is walking scum. I think it made the sailing family look decent and honest to the majority of normal people. The scum types are going to be influenced or changed by that programme becuase they are either smoking heroine or downing copious amounts of stella whilst stuffing their faces with junk food! or that is what the media would let us think.
 
My opinion is split ... Wouldn't fancy being on a boat with the Hill family, but i'd need to know he was a better pilot then skipper before going flying with 'QH the interesting' So .... errr, they started at Plymouth Yacht Haven did a 4 hour sail to their first overnight (couldn't make out where that was) and on the second day did a 7 hour 'sail' to Salcombe ... and were still there for the last night? (maybe it wasn't a week and perhaps they never completed there 100 nM?) Anyone recognise where they stayed on night one?
 
I thought the trip looked an absolute shambles....skipper laying down the law in a most unfriendly manner. And his wife saying her skipper husband was a very interesting person because he has a private pilots licence and can charter any yacht!
 
I've only seen it once.
I can't imagine why people are prepared to put themselves and their families into such a manipulated situation simply to get on TV.
For that matter I can't imagine why people want to watch the rubbish! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
So. The plan is to take a non-sailing family of quite normal pissheads with a million kids, no booze or fags on a yacht?

Well it's going to work, isn't it?

I thought the nonsailing family were fine peeps and should have stayed in Benidorm.

The skipper dude was simply a bit underconfident but quite right, apart from his rather questionable skippering manner. He was right not to risk a MOB from a squiffy crew taking a leak in the night. He should, however, have gone to that pub! Silly sod.

I would love to have seen the outcome if it had been f7 and peeing down.

And just how staged was the accident!!!

Pops
 
7 pints in a lunch time? if i drank that much i would be absolutely bladdered! i mean he didnt look that pissed, was he just talking a crock of poo?
even more horrifying was the eldest daughter talking about "normal" food before getting stuck into a burger etc. what sort of people are there out there?
stu
 
I'm not sure. I was annoyed about the image it presented of the industry.

To me it made sailing look boring. I'm relatively young and I have spent several years crewing for one particular family on the summer cruise abroad. They have other children on board and they have high family standards but they dont try to control every move and stop all the fun. There are so many things you can do to make it interesting - they could have been swimming off the boat etc. It could have transformed the other families view.

No alcohol on board!! every yachtie I have met has been borderline alcoholic - again how not to deal with people. Why didn't they crack open the champagne at the anchorage?

Totally agree that guy didnt have a great deal of experience. I wouldn't want to be in a plane with him.

I hope the mother realised how rude she was maybe they will learn how to deal with people one day.

Dralex I'm glad someone else felt strongly - now i want to put it right by making a documentary. (1st plan- buy boat)
 
No he was not a good ad for yachting (and awful at skippering in particular - no wonder the youngster wanted to jump ship!!) But the other family weren't typical yotties either hence their reaction.

Which is why none of us were taking part.

It's a telly prog!!!

An uneventful trip is sometimes acknowledged as a sign of good seamanship - and that would make c**p telly.

IMHO
 
SWMBO suggested watching it and I said "Oh no, I will only get annoyed" and it looks like I was right. We are always epitomised by theseW*****s
 
Yup. It's telly. Always bollocks. Anything you have knowledge of is always portrayed badly on the box, or in mags, or in the paper.
It's all a crock of <span style="color:black">sh</span><span style="color:black">it</span>
 
The best thing to do with a television is to use it as a mud weight, I find most of what spews out of them is dreadful drivel, even supposed intelligent documentaries are staged soap operas and as for those reality things, what's that all about..rubbish.
 
My view entirly. I looked at the blurb, knew that they would have had trouble getting a proper yachty from the reactions to the original advert on here. I am not a masochist so didnt watch it.

CSI is always more interesting than that show anyway!
 
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