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With all that marvellous sunshine, it was the first occasion this year to slap on the suncream.
Now maybe this new fangled stuff SWIMBO bought (at some lunacy price) doesnt spread like the old stuff, or, more likely, there seems to be just a bit more of me to spread it over this year.
So here is the question. Does getting a bigger boat make you get fatter? I m not mistaken that when I had our first 18ft boat, I was rather slim, but there seems a nasty correlation to upsizing and, well, upsizing.
I cant face a gym. Do you think if I got a small rib tender or something and spent an hour a day in that, it would have the desired effect?
Incidentally, this fancy suncream lotion certainly stops you burning, but it seems to stop you tanning too. Has anyone added some copper powder and chilli powder to a basic one, and if so, what was the outcome, please?
 
Would this be you then?

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I'm afraid its too late!! I am the same, had a 34' boat, slim as a racing snake!! Now 57' fat as a bacon pig! Need to get out sailing and heqaving on a few ropes!!
 
Well from 1999 to 2006 I gotv a bigger boat every year and got fatter. In 2006 I got a smaller boat for which I was too fat. Now got an even smaller boat and have lost a lot of weight! To enjoy a smaller boat you have to be more agile and nimble....or get very large Trim Tabs!

So yes, the bigger the boat the bigger my waist size was!

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I think I'm doing something wrong. I've had this small boat for months now but I can't seem to shift the weight. Maybe I need to buy some oars?

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Yup, it's true. As my boat has got bigger, so have I. Let's face it, motorboating isn't exactly strenuous exercise and the bigger the boat, the more fridges it has for storing alcohol and the more galley space it has for storing food and the more laboursaving devices it has for avoiding physical exertion like electric anchor winch, bowthruster, hydraulic dinghy crane etc. My next boat will have an escalator to the flybridge as those steps are getting hard work
I believe though that there is a point at which the big boat/big belly correlation fails to hold water. I mean have you ever seen a fat bird on a superyacht? No, neither have I and I'm buggered if I can work out why. Any ideas?
As for sun cream, I've found thru bitter experience in the Med that the more you pay, the better the stuff works. We use a lot of that Piss Bin stuff which seems to protect well and convert into a reasonable tan quite quickly
 
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, motorboating isn't exactly strenuous exercise - I mean have you ever seen a fat bird on a superyacht? No, neither have I and I'm buggered if I can work out why. Any ideas?


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Excuse me - by the time I have run around the decks of our Trader hauling in and tying up about 18 big fenders and four great lengths of rope I am about buggered. Its better than any gym workout I know and then I have to put them out again when we get where we are going /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

as for the fat bird bit - Is a Trader 44 a Superyacht? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Blimey, my SWMBO would immediately down tools if she had to lift 18 fenders and 4 ropes. It's no wonder you're toned and slim. Have you ever thought about you doing the driving and HWMBO doing the fenders? That would reduce the number in use for sure
I'm sure the Trader is a superyacht in your eyes /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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