Lose the Forum "Lliveaboard" title

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This Forum is the least visited among the YBW active forums. I reckon it is because of the impression that the title Liveaboards create of lazy bums on rotting boats clogging up good quays and river banks. The nautical equivalent of "Trailer Trash".

Why not change it to Ocean Cruising Forum. That would reflect a more accurate description of the posters on here.

Edit: Sorry about the title mis-spelling. Also while I am back here, maybe "Cruising Forum"
 
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>Why not change it to Ocean Cruising Forum. That would reflect a more accurate description of the posters on here.

There are a lot of different liveaboards here: living in a UK or overseas marina and cruising the Med are examples. If you did a survey of posters my bet is ocean sailors are likely to be less than 25-30%. The reason this is the least visited forum has nothing to with 'lazy bums etc' it's just there aren't many sailors who have lived aboard.
 
KellysEye said:
>Why not change it to Ocean Cruising Forum. That would reflect a more accurate description of the posters on here.

There are a lot of different liveaboards here: living in a UK or overseas marina and cruising the Med are examples. If you did a survey of posters my bet is ocean sailors are likely to be less than 25-30%. The reason this is the least visited forum has nothing to with 'lazy bums etc' it's just there aren't many sailors who have lived aboard.
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Well I am not a liveaboard and those I do know on here spend more time cruising than just static liveaboarding. They are either sailing from place to place for a few month then spend the rest of the year at home for the winter.

The concept of a liveaboard describes a static boat dweller. Cruisers also liveaboard while cruising but I for one would be offended if anyone called me a liveaboard.

As I wrote in my Edit above why not simply "Cruising Forum"

If you are assuming percentages than I suggest that less than 10% who post on here actually liveaboard 12 month of the year. But who knows, perhaps a poll would reveal the mix.
 
I liveaboard about 10 months a year, and my present yacht has never sailed on an ocean, although I certainly have done, in gleaming yachts and knackered rustbuckets. I will be moving back on board next month until next December, and cruising in NE Europe. Do I qualify as a liveaboard yes or no?
PS my favourite occupation is "clogging up" riverbanks and disfiguring otherwise delightful town quays with my battered old sloop, UK and abroad, wherever I lay my hat.
If the OP is gnashing his teeth, I have an old joker valve he can chew on.
 
This has to be the ultimate non issue. It's a thread for boaters who spend extended periods afloat, whether cruising or static. If we are a minority so what, but to imply that liveaboard is an insultulting description is puerile.
 
BurnitBlue said:
This Forum is the least visited among the YBW active forums. I reckon it is because of the impression that the title Liveaboards create of lazy bums on rotting boats clogging up good quays and river banks. The nautical equivalent of "Trailer Trash".

Why not change it to Ocean Cruising Forum. That would reflect a more accurate description of the posters on here.

Edit: Sorry about the title mis-spelling. Also while I am back here, maybe "Cruising Forum"
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errmmm is that not something different!!!!!!
 
Cruising Forum might be for those who cruise in cruise ships. A bit different part of the spectrum I think. For the thread title, is Lliveaboard a Welsh translation?
 
RAI said:
Cruising Forum might be for those who cruise in cruise ships. A bit different part of the spectrum I think. For the thread title, is Lliveaboard a Welsh translation?
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Cruising forum would raise the same giggles I get from non-sailing friends when I mention the Cruising Assocation which has to be the most embarrassing name for a sailing club, no matter how good it actually is.
 
RupertW said:
Cruising forum would raise the same giggles I get from non-sailing friends when I mention the Cruising Assocation which has to be the most embarrassing name for a sailing club, no matter how good it actually is.
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Oh no, not another. Our last Commodore tried to change the name of our cruising club, established in the 1920s, because he is embarrassed about "cruising" having sexual connotations. Why then did he join in the first place? Soon got rid of him thankfully.
 
Could be called the "Intrepid Ocean voyagers (who just haven't yet got round to it ) forum. Than again, maybe just as well to keep calling a spade a spade.
 
We liveaboard 365 days a year, and still manage to cruise around a bit - so am I liveaboard or a cruiser or a liveabord cruiser? FFS, get a life and go sailing or something; spending less time posting worthless comments on a page which doesn't get looked at!


On that note are mobo owners sailors or not? I mean they don't actually sail ad the self righteous raggies on here think they are stinkpot trash; but the definition of a sailor is:


  • a person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat, especially one who is below the rank of officer:Hawaii was an important stopping point for sailors to restock provision

So, unless you are an AB in the MN you ain't a sailor; you see how pointless these posts/arguments are! :rolleyes:
 
GrahamM376 said:
Oh no, not another. Our last Commodore tried to change the name of our cruising club, established in the 1920s, because he is embarrassed about "cruising" having sexual connotations. Why then did he join in the first place? Soon got rid of him thankfully.
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It's not me, until the age of about 9 I thought the word "cruising" was all about sailing. Since then I realised that everybody else thinks of it as silly as belonging to a "Swingers club" . Not suggesting any change to the CA title but you can't pretend it doesn't sound highly embarrassing - and whenever I do forget that somebdy is happy to remind me.

There can't be many people in the country who think of the sailing connotation first.
 
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