MedDreamer
Active member
I have hit on what would be a fantastic money saving scheme.
Lets all sell our real boats and just have "Virtual Boats" here on the forum. We can still have all the fun without the expense. We can have whatever boat we want - but to keep it "real" we should start with what we have now and go through a proper upgrade path ie ask other forum members their opinion about our prospective choices then announce that we have made our choice and are starting the hunt....then complain about timewasting brokers/sellers....move onto how bad the survey or surveyor culminating in the bold announcement that we have a new boat. I will personally be taking delivery of my Fleming 55 later this year, having worked my way through the entire Fairline range.
TCM can still have his Leopard, Byron can still be thinking about it, Pauline could still have her Riva (and George Martins Gullet as well if she wanted), Colin and Martyn Whiteley could still be boat owners and post accordingly. In fact MW could convert to petrol from the newly taxed diesel and submit a long post telling us how great it feels.
You guys on the Solent will always go out when its not busy, the Med boaters can still be there, Alistair can still zoom around Loch Lomond sniffing petrol fumes and Haydn can still take Harry down to the South West, completely poopooing everybody else on here and Learner can.......errrr.....(oh well I suppose he's already doing this anyway)
After a brief interlude we can start asking questions that the rest of the forum will recognise as the issues that are keeping us awake at night eg smoky exhausts, leaky bilges, fuel contamination, noisy outdrives (ouch). The other forum members who have already had this experience could post reassuring messages (usually starting "Don't worry Nick.....).
We could post on how our marina's ripping us off (without the real financial pain), how everything costs x10 because its "marinised" and how the socialist chancellor is going to bleed us dry.
Socially nothing will change, the various forum meets can still take place with copious drinking (MDL would just need to provide the beer tent - no berths required).
And the beauty of all this is that it will cost nothing (well except the beer of course)
Anybody want to play in my world......yes nurse I'm coming.........
Martyn
<hr width=100% size=1>The Dream is Alive
Lets all sell our real boats and just have "Virtual Boats" here on the forum. We can still have all the fun without the expense. We can have whatever boat we want - but to keep it "real" we should start with what we have now and go through a proper upgrade path ie ask other forum members their opinion about our prospective choices then announce that we have made our choice and are starting the hunt....then complain about timewasting brokers/sellers....move onto how bad the survey or surveyor culminating in the bold announcement that we have a new boat. I will personally be taking delivery of my Fleming 55 later this year, having worked my way through the entire Fairline range.
TCM can still have his Leopard, Byron can still be thinking about it, Pauline could still have her Riva (and George Martins Gullet as well if she wanted), Colin and Martyn Whiteley could still be boat owners and post accordingly. In fact MW could convert to petrol from the newly taxed diesel and submit a long post telling us how great it feels.
You guys on the Solent will always go out when its not busy, the Med boaters can still be there, Alistair can still zoom around Loch Lomond sniffing petrol fumes and Haydn can still take Harry down to the South West, completely poopooing everybody else on here and Learner can.......errrr.....(oh well I suppose he's already doing this anyway)
After a brief interlude we can start asking questions that the rest of the forum will recognise as the issues that are keeping us awake at night eg smoky exhausts, leaky bilges, fuel contamination, noisy outdrives (ouch). The other forum members who have already had this experience could post reassuring messages (usually starting "Don't worry Nick.....).
We could post on how our marina's ripping us off (without the real financial pain), how everything costs x10 because its "marinised" and how the socialist chancellor is going to bleed us dry.
Socially nothing will change, the various forum meets can still take place with copious drinking (MDL would just need to provide the beer tent - no berths required).
And the beauty of all this is that it will cost nothing (well except the beer of course)
Anybody want to play in my world......yes nurse I'm coming.........
Martyn
<hr width=100% size=1>The Dream is Alive
