Misery

[capnsensible]

Does anyone here actually get joy from sailing about and being happy?

 

[KevinV]

Does anyone here actually get joy from sailing about and being happy?

Been talking to the bar flies in the clubhouse?

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I do (well, usually motor boating now but I sail in Croatia most years). The forum can be a miserable place though. I pick my weather, and my companions, very carefully....!

 

[capnsensible]

Been talking to the bar flies in the clubhouse?

Nah, just watching the doom laden clouds over every thread......

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Be on the boat tomorrow for a weeks sailing in the Adriatic with a group of old friends. Very happy

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Absolutely. The best type of joy, where I leave all the shit behind on the quay. A couple of weekends ago I was out with a friend and he had just served divorce papers on his ex after two years. Having a dram at anchor, he stated, it was a great weekend, for the first time in a long time his mind was clear; it could have been the divorce papers being served, of course.

Its just a great feeling being powered by the wind, no matter the strength, in a seaworthy and reliable boat.

 

[melvynpatrick]

I’d rather be miserable on the boat than miserable at work

 

[KevinV]

Nah, just watching the doom laden clouds over every thread......

Same thing It's not exactly sailing weather and the season is coming to an end, people are bound to be even grumpier than usual

 

[johnalison]

There's a boat somewhere in Germany called 'Sailing Misery', which may or may not be better than another over there called 'Shit Happens'.

I love boats - anything from an Avon dinghy to a X-channel ferry. There's no doubt that boating is often suffused with anxiety, as in "what will the weather do?" and "will the mast fall down today?", but generally it is engaging and rewarding.

We all love a good moan, but I restrict it to people dumb enough to log onto these pages. With non-sailors, I keep it to myself and revel in their stories of woe, such as "Our plane was two hours late taking off" or "The hotel had no Marmite", while reminding myself that we spent a week gale-bound in Falmouth.

 

[Stemar]

If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't bother. There are so many cheaper ways of being miserable.

 

[Supertramp]

I have good days and bad days.....

 

[KevinV]

I have good days and bad days.....

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But you're on the boat - that would make them good days in my book

 

[Stemar]

I think it's entirely possible to have a bad day on your boat.

I know of someone had an argument with Hampstead Ledge, by Newtown Creek, and only didn't sink because the lifeboat turned up and had a sodding great pump on board. I understand the boat is a write-off.

I'd call that a bad day.

 

[GEM43]

Does anyone here actually get joy from sailing about and being happy?

Yes.

 

[Bouba]

Boating is a different sort of hobby.....if you like stamp collecting or painting.....you can just say, I’m bored...time to move on to a different activity. But boating has such a huge financial commitment....it’s nearly impossible to get out of....it’s like being blackmailed. So yes, I enjoy it....I couldn’t tell the wife anything else

 

[neil_s]

Being on board the boat is enough for me - even better when it's afloat!

 

[mjcoon]

I think it's entirely possible to have a bad day on your boat.

I know of someone had an argument with Hampstead Ledge, by Newtown Creek, and only didn't sink because the lifeboat turned up and had a sodding great pump on board. I understand the boat is a write-off.

I'd call that a bad day.

I suppose that's one way of avoiding the chore of parking up after a passage...

 

[westhinder]

Just being on a boat makes me feel good, and there is nothing that beats days like this

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Had a great race this evening. We didn’t get run down by the Waverly, and had one of those ‘just in control, maybe’ 3 sail reaches, from no.7, near Hamstead Ledge, out to U, somewhere off Lymington. The spinnaker pole was bending alarmingly but we got away with it. Weather permitting, we’re taking out some youngsters on the Tri, with assistance from one of Stemar’s mate’s saviors. On our boat, not on her big orange one.

 

[Concerto]

If I had not been sailing, I would miss sun rises like this one.



Or like this one.



This is still one of my favourite days sailing.