MoBo Snobs ???

Can't have been our Mobo window they were peering through or we would have invited them on for a glass of squash and a biscuit.

After 11 years of ownership we are still proud to show her off to anyone who wants a look

I cannot for the life of me see how your choice of boat propulsion (or the size of it) enables people to label you a snob.

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Sandyman said:
Would you MoBo owners say that the more money you have, the bigger more modern boat you own and the bigger snob you are ? Has been my experience.
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Spot on. I look down on you on your tiddly little sailing boat from the lofty heights of my enormous diesel guzzling flybridge boat and I think how you are not fit to smell my exhaust fumes or even to lick my fenders clean. I would no sooner pass the time of day with you than allow a socialist to step onto my boat
 
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Spot on. I look down on you on your tiddly little sailing boat from the lofty heights of my enormous diesel guzzling flybridge boat and I think how you are not fit to smell my exhaust fumes or even to lick my fenders clean. I would no sooner pass the time of day with you than allow a socialist to step onto my boat
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Love it!!

Cheers, Brian.
 
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Spot on. I look down on you on your tiddly little sailing boat from the lofty heights of my enormous diesel guzzling flybridge boat and I think how you are not fit to smell my exhaust fumes or even to lick my fenders clean. I would no sooner pass the time of day with you than allow a socialist to step onto my boat
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(Flower Power has to go downstairs to fetch a J-cloth to wipe the coffee off the monitor) :D:):D
 
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Spot on. I look down on you on your tiddly little sailing boat from the lofty heights of my enormous diesel guzzling flybridge boat and I think how you are not fit to smell my exhaust fumes or even to lick my fenders clean. I would no sooner pass the time of day with you than allow a socialist to step onto my boat
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You rotter...you havent got his battery as well , have you?
 
I don't like motorboats in general. I don't like the look of them and I certainly couldn't afford to make them go anywhere. Thats why I bought a sailing boat. However, when I have my motor on in poor sailing conditions and I am travelling along at 5 knots I sometimes envy their ability to get places. Mostly I like sailing and fliff flaffing about and mostly I try to do it on good days and so the envy passes over me rarely.
I have to say that I have never met a boater of any kind that I didn't get on with. I would happily chat about fuel filters etc with a Moboer and I would happily have them onboard for a G&T or go onboard theirs for a nosey.
I presume most Moboers don't like fliff flaffy sail boats and that is why they bought a mobo. Each to their own but one of the most enoyable things, I have found, about messing around in boats, is that there is a community of the sea. It is a nostalgic old fashioned community where people say Hi and offer drinks to all and sundry, take a warp and give a helping hand.
I hope it is generaly the same down south as it seems to be in Norn Iron and the W of Scotland. If it disappears boating will be worse for it.

Paddy
 
pmagowan said:
I have to say that I have never met a boater of any kind that I didn't get on with. I would happily chat about fuel filters etc with a Moboer and I would happily have them onboard for a G&T or go onboard theirs for a nosey.
I presume most Moboers don't like fliff flaffy sail boats and that is why they bought a mobo. Each to their own but one of the most enoyable things, I have found, about messing around in boats, is that there is a community of the sea.
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Despite my slightly tongue in cheek post above, you are of course right. We all do it because we love boating and we love being out on the water. Personally I dont particularly like sailing but that doesn't stop me nattering to yotties parked next door or, heaven forbid, having dinner with them as we did with some yotties from this very forum only a couple of weeks ago. Funnily enough they turned out to be quite normal human beings:). What I definitely dont like is people who try to propagate an us 'n them mentality between yotties and moboers. We are all out there simply to enjoy the water; the fact that we do it in slightly different ways doesn't matter a jot
 
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... Personally I dont particularly like sailing but that doesn't stop me nattering to yotties parked next door or, heaven forbid, having dinner with them as we did with some yotties from this very forum only a couple of weeks ago. Funnily enough they turned out to be quite normal human beings....
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Is this in spite of their being yotties, or in spite of their being forumites? :D

Although I own a mobo, I also love sailing and have been known to bum a lift from various wind-powered forumites. There are fools of both persuasion on here but, as you say, we all love messing about in boats, and long may that continue.
 
Sandyman said:
Would you MoBo owners say that the more money you have, the bigger more modern boat you own and the bigger snob you are ? Has been my experience.

Anyone who has read my postings will realise I dont have much time for MoBo's. I make no excuse for that. (On seamanship grounds) I find it strange that owners of older small MoBo's are much more friendly and better seamen (as far as a MoBo, seaman can be) than those that own the latest plastic gin palaces.

Comments welcome.
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ENVY!
 
You can always make an 'us and them' and often I find it is my own prejudices that create it rather than the reality. My boat is made of wood so I could take exception to all these plastic jobs. I like wood. I like the feel of it, the look of it, the tradition and the fact that I understand it. However, I have seen a lot of plastic boats with a style I like. The envy comes over me when I have a drip on my head while trying to sleep and the automatic bilge pump comes on to try to manage the fact that I am continuously sinking (all be it slowly).

It may be good craic to get a rise out of each other and get a bit of banter going but I think we have to be careful to make sure it doesn't go too far. Otherwise the attitude will become real and will propogate. We all know the interweb is not reality and in real life we would probably all get along well if docked along side.
 
pmagowan said:
You can always make an 'us and them' and often I find it is my own prejudices that create it rather than the reality. My boat is made of wood so I could take exception to all these plastic jobs. I like wood. I like the feel of it, the look of it, the tradition and the fact that I understand it. However, I have seen a lot of plastic boats with a style I like. The envy comes over me when I have a drip on my head while trying to sleep and the automatic bilge pump comes on to try to manage the fact that I am continuously sinking (all be it slowly).

It may be good craic to get a rise out of each other and get a bit of banter going but I think we have to be careful to make sure it doesn't go too far. Otherwise the attitude will become real and will propogate. We all know the interweb is not reality and in real life we would probably all get along well if docked along side.
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I think that this is the most sensible thing I have ever read on the internet. You should be banned. :D:D
 
Well, jokes aside, I do think that the social interactions between people that travel in privately owned boats for pleasure are complex and interesting...

While most of us would never say it, we almost all have an allegiance to one out of sail or motor and look down on the other to some extent. For the Mobos, we sailors are old fashioned stick-in-the-muds that potter along at 5 knots and feel smug and environmentally responsible about it - pretty much the same as people that only buy fairtrade organic food.

For us yachties, the mobos are not proper sailors - we have to do everything that they do plus manage all those complicated ropes and sails… We also feel quietly smug that we were able to put 5 gallons of diesel into the tank in March and we still have some left in September!

I think that the relationships within each group are a bit different… Those of us with small boats all envy those with large boats, but I have the impression that there is more snobbishness from the owners of large motor boats towards those of small, old motor boats than there is between the owners of lager new yachts and small old yachts.


As one final complication, in addition to genuine dedicated boat owners, you inevitably have a population of young tear-aways - the same yobs that drive through a 30mph zone at 60 with a couple of hundred watts of boombox running with all the windows open. When they decide to get afloat, they always do it in a motor boat, thus bringing the rest of the mobo community into disrepute!
 
All the mobos I know use to have sailing yachts and have moved over to mobos because they were hacked off of crew throwing winch handles over the side every week and not packing the boat away . Saying that there are idiots in both camps .On Sunday there was a sailing school going across the bow of a container ship in the no go zone off Southampton. Firework night Cowes , A lot of stinkpots with no navigation lights on .:p
 
Sandyman said:
Would you MoBo owners say that the more money you have, the bigger more modern boat you own and the bigger snob you are ? Has been my experience.

Anyone who has read my postings will realise I dont have much time for MoBo's. I make no excuse for that. (On seamanship grounds) I find it strange that owners of older small MoBo's are much more friendly and better seamen (as far as a MoBo, seaman can be) than those that own the latest plastic gin palaces.

Comments welcome.
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Yes absolutely. I am now considerably better off than I was 20+ years ago and have a significantly bigger boat. Personally, I am an unbearable snob, and in fact had to get my butler to respond to this post as I would not personally stoop to talking with a raggie. One presumes that rag boats go around leaning over all the time because of the uneven weight distribution caused by the chips on their owners' shoulders...
 
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