jayjay190
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i am doing a study on motor yatches/ motor boats and i would like to know what urges you to buy one, i need all the help i can get!
motor boat study
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colingr
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A total irrational desire to pour ridiculous amounts of money into a broker / marina / chandlery bank account.
There is no logic or sense in boating decisions, it is all driven by whimsy.
There is no logic or sense in boating decisions, it is all driven by whimsy.
Whitelighter
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Two words:
Freedom and Community.
Freedom to go where I want when I want, and the close boating community.
Freedom and Community.
Freedom to go where I want when I want, and the close boating community.
whisper
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Hi and welcome.
What is the study for?
We've only got a small one (boat, obviously!!) but my main reasons are:-
1) Fantastic sense of freedom when blatting along out at sea, especially when no-one else is around.
2) Done a lot of sailing and got fed up with not getting anywhere for hours, due to the slow pace. With a planing motorboat you can often visit more than one destination a day and can easily go to places that are upwind.
3) Motor boats don't spend their life leaning over like sailing yachts do.
4) Now also live somewhere with river frontage and sailing boat not practical due to bridge clearances.
The above sounds like I'm knocking sailing - it's not meant to. They are two totally different pastimes and have as many pros and cons as each other.
What is the study for?
We've only got a small one (boat, obviously!!) but my main reasons are:-
1) Fantastic sense of freedom when blatting along out at sea, especially when no-one else is around.
2) Done a lot of sailing and got fed up with not getting anywhere for hours, due to the slow pace. With a planing motorboat you can often visit more than one destination a day and can easily go to places that are upwind.
3) Motor boats don't spend their life leaning over like sailing yachts do.
4) Now also live somewhere with river frontage and sailing boat not practical due to bridge clearances.
The above sounds like I'm knocking sailing - it's not meant to. They are two totally different pastimes and have as many pros and cons as each other.
jayjay190
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3d design
jfm
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Fundamentally, it's a deeply held love of the sea and desire to be on it/around it. That's a condition that affects many humans by the way. For many humans, the sea is a beautiful thing. Beyond that you get into nitty gritty choices about what exact type of boat to buy of course
gjgm
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I m not sure that you will get a balanced answer on here, as this forum is visited by enthusiasts.
Personally, I wouldnt do this, if the wife wasnt also enthusiatic. So for us then, its also because its how we spend much of our leisure time together. For us, its also being "outside", and the sea gives you plenty of outdoor exposure ! We live in London, so it gives us time and space and freedom to pretty much do what we want. It enables you to go to places not necessarily mobbed by cars,coaches and so on. You get to see the coastline and the countryside.
Its social, with family and friends, and social around the marina and others in the "boating" community. (I dare say, golf clubs, or flying clubs etc are, too.. just for us, its boats).
Its also our holidays.
Its also a learning experience, of safety,skills and competencies.
When the family was younger, it was then something we did together.. its not just being on the boat.. its the beaches, the meals together and so on.
Its also a toy, where I can happily fiddle about with totally unnecesary gizzmos!
But, dare I say it, for some its status symbol.Even if its hardly ever used.
I would also have to note, that we do it because we financially can. If we couldnt, we could still be by the sea, by the water;plenty of fantastic coastline and rivers to walk. We dont HAVE to have a boat.
Personally, I wouldnt do this, if the wife wasnt also enthusiatic. So for us then, its also because its how we spend much of our leisure time together. For us, its also being "outside", and the sea gives you plenty of outdoor exposure ! We live in London, so it gives us time and space and freedom to pretty much do what we want. It enables you to go to places not necessarily mobbed by cars,coaches and so on. You get to see the coastline and the countryside.
Its social, with family and friends, and social around the marina and others in the "boating" community. (I dare say, golf clubs, or flying clubs etc are, too.. just for us, its boats).
Its also our holidays.
Its also a learning experience, of safety,skills and competencies.
When the family was younger, it was then something we did together.. its not just being on the boat.. its the beaches, the meals together and so on.
Its also a toy, where I can happily fiddle about with totally unnecesary gizzmos!
But, dare I say it, for some its status symbol.Even if its hardly ever used.
I would also have to note, that we do it because we financially can. If we couldnt, we could still be by the sea, by the water;plenty of fantastic coastline and rivers to walk. We dont HAVE to have a boat.
jayjay190
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thanks for all your comments they really helped!
alt
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An addiction to being on or in the water, simple as. I'm as happy in a 14ft tender as I am in my sports cruiser. I'm happier when i'm on water than on land - regardless of the weater (provided i'm not in danger)
MapisM
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Now you made me curious
So, you are doing a study on motor yatches/motor boats for 3d design.
And the comments you got really helped your study.
I for one would really be interested to know in which way such study can be affected by those feedbacks.
Mind, there's nothing wrong with the replies you got, but I can't understand what you discovered that you couldn't have imagined and which, in turn, would affect 3D boat design.
Not a troll, just genuine curiosity.
So, you are doing a study on motor yatches/motor boats for 3d design.
And the comments you got really helped your study.
I for one would really be interested to know in which way such study can be affected by those feedbacks.
Mind, there's nothing wrong with the replies you got, but I can't understand what you discovered that you couldn't have imagined and which, in turn, would affect 3D boat design.
Not a troll, just genuine curiosity.
Nick_H
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Re: Now you made me curious
Yep, not knocking Jayjay, but why does everyone who asks question's on here for a school/uni project give so little information about what info they want. It's always "i'm doing a project about motor boats, can you tell me about them please", as though they're not really interested, and hoping we'll do the project for them. As a minimum I would expect them to have done some desk research first, so they could ask some more targetted questions.
Actually, I suppose I am knocking Jayjay just a bit, 'cos his question was a bit lazy, and as a result he got lots of good info on the what motivates us emotionally to buy boats, which'll be little or no use to him on his 3D design course
Yep, not knocking Jayjay, but why does everyone who asks question's on here for a school/uni project give so little information about what info they want. It's always "i'm doing a project about motor boats, can you tell me about them please", as though they're not really interested, and hoping we'll do the project for them. As a minimum I would expect them to have done some desk research first, so they could ask some more targetted questions.
Actually, I suppose I am knocking Jayjay just a bit, 'cos his question was a bit lazy, and as a result he got lots of good info on the what motivates us emotionally to buy boats, which'll be little or no use to him on his 3D design course