Keeping a Log book,advantages

[Wansworth]

 

[Boathook]

Have you started yours yet Wansey ?

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Very good.
But how do I remember what day it is ?

 

[veshengro]

This won't apply to 99% of folks now but...Being an idle sod I tended to write my logs up with the pencil that I used on my charts, instead writing up the log with a Biro or harder pencil. Logs from pre 2018 are now almost unreadable on many pages. Kept in a pile didn't help, the early ones must have got pressed and the soft pencil has, in many places, just faded away..

 

[Wansworth]

Have you started yours yet Wansey ?

Haven’t been anywhere yet

 

[Poignard]

Haven’t been anywhere yet

Then you must record why you haven't - stormbound, mutiny, disease, seized by the authorities, warrant of arrest, breakdown, &c.

 

[Wansworth]

Then you must record why you haven't - stormbound, mutiny, disease, seized by the authorities, warrant of arrest, breakdown, &c.

Cataract in eye now fixed but have forgotten the instructions on howto start the outboard

 

[Marsali_1]

Cataract in eye now fixed but have forgotten the instructions on howto start the outboard

Usually follows the following pattern: choke on, throttle set to above idle, pump the primer several times, yank on starter cord many times (alternating between choke off and on) until face is red and beads of sweat drip into your eyes, curse the thing, get a plug wrench and remove the spark plug to dry it (having assumed the beast is flooded), discover that the plug is dry, haul over motor with the plug out to confirm spark (successful), replace plug and begin the pattern again,

reply to neighbouring boaters' helpful queries with "yes the tank is full, I just filled it this morning", "yes there's spark", "no it's not flooded, just had the plug out" (stop and take plug out again to prove the point), "yes the kill switch key is in place", step back to let the chap in the next berth have a go, pull the plug again and splash a bit of gas into the open cylinder (advice from a passer-by headed to the shower block), engine fires and runs for 20 seconds and stops, everyone agrees that's a good sign, two more neighbours have a go with no luck, someone in the crowd asks if the tank is full and you go and pick it up to show that it is and............................find that the vent is screwed shut preventing air entering into the tank. Surreptitiously unscrew it just in time for someone else to have a go and it starts and runs flawlessly. What follows is a lengthy discussion over the merits and dependability of different brands of outboard motors.

 

[Wansworth]

Usually follows the following pattern: choke on, throttle set to above idle, pump the primer several times, yank on starter cord many times (alternating between choke off and on) until face is red and beads of sweat drip into your eyes, curse the thing, get a plug wrench and remove the spark plug to dry it (having assumed the beast is flooded), discover that the plug is dry, haul over motor with the plug out to confirm spark (successful), replace plug and begin the pattern again,

reply to neighbouring boaters' helpful queries with "yes the tank is full, I just filled it this morning", "yes there's spark", "no it's not flooded, just had the plug out" (stop and take plug out again to prove the point), "yes the kill switch key is in place", step back to let the chap in the next berth have a go, pull the plug again and splash a bit of gas into the open cylinder (advice from a passer-by headed to the shower block), engine fires and runs for 20 seconds and stops, everyone agrees that's a good sign, two more neighbours have a go with no luck, someone in the crowd asks if the tank is full and you go and pick it up to show that it is and............................find that the vent is screwed shut preventing air entering into the tank. Surreptitiously unscrew it just in time for someone else to have a go and it starts and runs flawlessly. What follows is a lengthy discussion over the merits and dependability of different brands of outboard motors.

That sounds like a very merry Christmas

 

[Neeves]

Cataract in eye now fixed but have forgotten the instructions on howto start the outboard

I appreciate it might not 'cut the mustard' but there is a device, or devices, called oars which have been used for centuries to propel auxiliary vessels. Cancel the gym membership (and stop using the car wash), take to rowing.

Jonathan

 

[Wansworth]

I appreciate it might not 'cut the mustard' but there is a device, or devices, called oars which have been used for centuries to propel auxiliary vessels. Cancel the gym membership (and stop using the car wash), take to rowing.

Jonathan

No this is the mother ship!

 

[Boathook]

No this is the mother ship!

Nothing to stop you trying to row it Wansey.

Just imagine, silence as you gently glide out of your berth, only the sound of an oar as it dips in and out of the water.

 

[Wansworth]

Nothing to stop you trying to row it Wansey.

Just imagine, silence as you gently glide out of your berth, only the sound of an oar as it dips in and out of the water.

The age of Romantazism has passed

 

[newtothis]

The age of Wansy looking for a boat has passed. We're now in the epoch before he actually goes for a sail. Civilisations will rise and fall during that period. Then, eons later, we enter the age of the selling of the boat.
Historians off the future will call this of phase of the planet's evolution the Wansyocene.

 

[Wansworth]

The age of Wansy looking for a boat has passed. We're now in the epoch before he actually goes for a sail. Civilisations will rise and fall during that period. Then, eons later, we enter the age of the selling of the boat.
Historians off the future will call this of phase of the planet's evolution the Wansyocene.

Oy……I heard that was onthe boat today measuring up for the WC checking the mooring ropes and starting a mental list.Two water related areas to correct….condensation and hatch board stuck due to humidity!