Life after boating......

My problem is slightly different I suspect. I haven't spent my working life in an office yearning to get afloat, but since selling the FV I have problems akin to cold turkey. I wake up with the tide, spend time gazing at the ocean thinking I should be out there etc. Another fishing boat, even part time is very difficult due to paperwork and regs, and being 70, but is beginning to press very hard. I have toyed with a yacht as an idea, but know that I spent quite enough time at sea waiting for something to happen, or stop happening. French canals is a goer, I think.
 
Talulah said:
Great fun reading the above. Today is retirement day so this thread is very apt.
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Welcome to the world where the four letter word WORK is banned. You will shortly find it very difficult to understand how you ever found the time to go to WORK. There are so many jobs that you have put off until you retired and now you can do them at your leisure. You can work on your home or your boat, go out to places you have never visited, etc, etc. Your only regret will be, why did I not do this earlier.
 
Quiddle said:
Well, just bought my 3rd 'motor caravan' yesterday. Had them since my thirties. Ideal retreat in a remote location after a day's sea kayaking or mountain biking. Unlike sailing, the pleasure isn't in the journey, it's in the destination. Don't knock it until youve tried it.View attachment 83794
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Not necessarily: its a bit like boating, is the pleasure in new places or in the getting there, or for most of us, both. Driving through spectacular scenery like a high Alpine Pass, is often more rewarding than the destination, which by comparison may seem quite tame! I agree though that killing miles on the M6 or whatever is not the most exciting part of it!
 
fisherman said:
My problem is slightly different I suspect. I haven't spent my working life in an office yearning to get afloat, but since selling the FV I have problems akin to cold turkey. I wake up with the tide, spend time gazing at the ocean thinking I should be out there etc. Another fishing boat, even part time is very difficult due to paperwork and regs, and being 70, but is beginning to press very hard. I have toyed with a yacht as an idea, but know that I spent quite enough time at sea waiting for something to happen, or stop happening. French canals is a goer, I think.
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Here in Galicia retired fishermen are allowed to catch a small quota and retired farmers are allowed to keep two cows and other stuff like chickens,
 
Poignard said:
Dull people have immaculate gardens.
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Our neighbour is a former Olympic dinghy sailor, and "dull" is not a word I would associate with her.
As well as doing sail coaching, marketing etc. she also manages to keep the garden neat, which is much appreciated.
 
Wansworth said:
Here in Galicia retired fishermen are allowed to catch a small quota and retired farmers are allowed to keep two cows and other stuff like chickens,
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I reckon a small boat, say 6 metre, as over 7 gets into troublesome regs. I can have a limited licence, to catch less than 350kg/year, and no shellfish which is actually five lobsters and 25 crabs a day. Assume 20hp, 17kw, maybe £3500 for the licence.
 
fisherman said:
I reckon a small boat, say 6 metre, as over 7 gets into troublesome regs. I can have a limited licence, to catch less than 350kg/year, and no shellfish which is actually five lobsters and 25 crabs a day. Assume 20hp, 17kw, maybe £3500 for the licence.
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Really? Are you saying that for a big dinghy which is what 6m is, you not only need a licence but it costs £3500 pa?

Mind you, why do you want to do it commercially rather than just going our and catching what you and family want to ea?
 
Fishing for me is for gain, that's what my life has been, little interest in angling. Nor do I kill anything for sport. 6m, twenty feet is a fairly substantial single handed boat, here's one I've been watching, 5,5M, £13,500
cheverton potter/ netter, maryport - Ad 101390
but that has too much licence for me, I would downsize the licence because it's use it or lose it and low level retirement fishing wouldn't keep it up.
A licence value is per kW of engine power.
 
Why do fishing boats always look top heavy? My guess would be that would roll if you made a mistake in a moderate beam sea.....and that might spoil your retirement.
 
mainsail1 said:
Why do fishing boats always look top heavy? My guess would be that would roll if you made a mistake in a moderate beam sea.....and that might spoil your retirement.
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Yes, some do, and I would be looking at stability on this one. The weight up top is not much. Many years ago I was mooching about somewhere along the east coast, boats were on a beach or yard, (Aldeburgh?) and peering under one of them, a fisherman or similar type came up, held out a hand, "Hello west-oh".
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"Always tell a west countryman, looks under the boat first". In other words the bottom of the boat is much more important than the top, and that one, being a Cheverton, I'm pretty sure of, if it's anything like the 16ft version. As an extreme example, look at the Buccaneer 19, same length as the Chevy
Buccaneer 19, Hartlepool marina - Ad 70299
although they can be a bit too buoyant, like a bubble, but safe. About £30k mind...
 
fisherman said:
Yes, some do, and I would be looking at stability on this one. The weight up top is not much. Many years ago I was mooching about somewhere along the east coast, boats were on a beach or yard, (Aldeburgh?) and peering under one of them, a fisherman or similar type came up, held out a hand, "Hello west-oh".
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"Always tell a west countryman, looks under the boat first". In other words the bottom of the boat is much more important than the top, and that one, being a Cheverton, I'm pretty sure of, if it's anything like the 16ft version. As an extreme example, look at the Buccaneer 19, same length as the Chevy
Buccaneer 19, Hartlepool marina - Ad 70299
although they can be a bit too buoyant, like a bubble, but safe. About £30k mind...
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There is a tale about a landlord in Cornwall who admired the St Austell Bay toshers and wanted something like them for his personal use, so he engaged a naval architect. The result was a boat like a tosher but grander. I don't know if it was after inspection or trial trips, but allegedly nobody within the county would take the boat out. Only the local boats, honed over a century or so would cope with the short seas in the bay. As children, my twin sister and I would be taken out fishing for mackerel from Meva, but we would only go out if it was sufficiently rough for spray to come over the bow. I think that if you have a feeling for what the sea is doing, it is hard to break the habit. You will need to find a boat that fits in with your sense of what it means to go to sea.
 
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