Lose the Forum "Lliveaboard" title

[hartcjhart]

Calling a spade a spade will get you banned

why??

 

[Eyore]

Calling a spade a spade will get you banned

why??

Politically incorrect. Far too explicit.

 

[NormanS]

I must be a simple soul. I'm a member of a Cruising Club, and it never occurred to me that it meant anything other than boating.

 

[BurnitBlue]

Calling a spade a spade will get you banned

why??

A spade is a dark chap, or a coloured gentleman. Art least where I grew up.

 

[BurnitBlue]

I must be a simple soul. I'm a member of a Cruising Club, and it never occurred to me that it meant anything other than boating.

I thought the objection to "Cruising Forum" was because being a liveaboard gave them the mistaken impression of getting a step up in life's pecking order. Is there another meaning?

 

[Mad Pad]

Oh dear,can't we move on.

 

[ripvan1]

A spade is a dark chap, or a coloured gentleman. Art least where I grew up.

Well I was up the allotment this morning (earning some brownie points) and I certainly wasn't using a coloured gentleman to turn over the beds

 

[Ludd]

is there a pointless thread of the year award?
I've lived aboard for ten years. I've cruised abroad as well,and am currently betwixt and between Spain and Portugal. Does this make me a liveabroad ?

 

[LittleSister]

why not simply "Cruising Forum"

Apart from anything else, there's already a YBW forum billed as 'Chat about cruising' - it's the Yachting Monthly Scuttlebutt!

 

[Cardo]

I'm a liveaboard and I'm alright
I cruise all day and I... cruise all night?

 

[Downsman]

I'm a liveaboard and I'm alright
I cruise all day and I... cruise all night?

Oh! seems like a nice boy.

When I lived aboard in Brighton Marina I was always very careful to say I was going sailing... not cruising...:encouragement:

 

[Parsonsheath]

is there a pointless thread of the year award?
I've lived aboard for ten years. I've cruised abroad as well,and am currently betwixt and between Spain and Portugal. Does this make me a liveabroad ?

surely you are a transient at present.

 

[richardbayle]

...and you don't get the dog's abuse you get on the Scuttlebutt forum.

 

[silver-fox]

Much ado about nothing........I really, really, really hoped this sort thread would stay in the lounge. <sigh>

 

[Summer Sailor]

If it ain't broke..don't fix it.

+1

 

[Spuddy]

Maybe a test question for those who think these things are important: if the skipper had some spare cash would he/she buy an active radar reflector or a Glomex tv ariel.

 

[Carmel2]

Neither work so...................A nice pack of ham.

 

[nortada]

I agree.

I am a liveaboard, but only late at night. The rest of the time I am cruising (albeit around the bars)

That's true!:encouragement:

 

[KellysEye]

>Yeah right. Twenty four liveaboard boats rounded Cape Horn with "DunRoamin" in the lead. Somehow that doesn't read right.

You will find liveaboard boats that don't move all over the place: Dominican Republic, Grenada, Puerto La Cruz Venezuela, and Greece and Turkey and doubtless elsewhere. There is nothing wrong with calling them liveaboards because strangely enough that's what they do. All of them have sailed there and decided to stay, we've met many of them in the Caribbean.

 

[prv]

The impression I get is that American usage tends to separate people whose home is their boat into two categories - "Cruisers" are those who move around and are entirely respectable, whereas "Liveaboard" means a more-or-less static houseboat and has connotations of down-and-out floating trailer-trash. People in the former group do not like being referred to as the latter, and some people in the latter group claim to be part of the former, they just haven't quite set off yet, ok? (and haven't for years and never will).

In British usage none of that applies - anyone living aboard their boat can be considered a liveaboard, with no judgement implied, and it covers the spectrum from hardy ocean cruisers to a narrowboat with geraniums on the roof.

Pete