Not feeling the love any more ........what to do.

[billskip]

Can I talk you out of quitting ?
Look at me…nobody has more hassle with boating than me, yet I keep plodding on

Yeh,
You cant fix stupid ?

 

[billskip]

You haven’t got to sit in U.K. airports with the rest of a certain segment of U.K. society wanting to go to Spain + back .
Cummins , ie no VP woes .
Its hot were you live …..folks need to get in the water , the sea and if means via a boat so be it .

Your boats desirability will never wain in Fr and indeed because it’s fugal on fuel it may be converted , you may start getting folks knocking on the hull ( like I do in Italy for a different set of reasons ) wanting to buy it .

If you mean frugal on fuel,well he has to be,he has a smaller tank now....

 

[Bouba]

I don’t think any of you are helping K change his mind

 

[billskip]

I don’t think any of you are helping K change his mind

Well I've sold up all now,and I certainly regret it,but I'm dreaming of another stab at it.

 

[Greg2]

We were without a boat for a while after selling our Broom. It didn’t take long before we were itching to be back on the water and frankly we missed the lifestyle.

 

[SoulFireMage]

an.

Thank you!

 

[DavidJ]

After nearly 22 years of messing about with boats, I have decided to pack it in. Combination of reasons but just find its more hassle than its worth these days.
So boat will be going on sale shortly. However It has a 2004 Simrad Chartploter system with another screen on the flybridge which is actually a repeater of the main unit downstairs, not a separate actual plotter. It's 2004 so it's all a bit slow. The back light failed in the lower helm (master Unit) last year so I put some led strip lights in. It all works but it looks a bit rubbish to be honest. The display is a bit dim and you can see the individual leds.
So what's the best thing to do?
Sell it as is, because it does actually work- the upper helm unit is perfectly OK. let new owner decide to upgrade or not
Or Replace both units with something like two 9" Simrad Go plotters. Will it help sell the boat?
Or something else.

Interesting because I’ve been going through this loop recently.
The grown up kids with their young families want to explore different experiences for their limited holidays.
The bills keep coming in (just paid £2000 for an engine bay extinguisher) Marina bill this month.
SHMBO looking less enthusiastic but not saying anything.

Out on the boat in July, jumped in the water and all of the above evaporated.
Back again September.

 

[BruceK]

Every year by end of season I have filled my boots and the prospect of a cold winter working on the hard fills me with dread. By the end of winter I am not even particularly enthusiastic about the lift in, but then the first glorious day out in Spring and its like school holidays as a kid. Cant get enough of it. Now I live on the boat and still itch to get out. It's like motorcycles. Once the bug has bitten, scratching it just makes it worse. I'll bet you sell up and within half a decade you'll be back boating with a vengeance.

 

[Bouba]

Interesting because I’ve been going through this loop recently.
The grown up kids with their young families want to explore different experiences for their limited holidays.
The bills keep coming in ( just paid £2000 for an engine bay extinguisher) Marina bill this month.
SHMBO looking less enthusiastic but not saying anything.

Out on the boat in July, jumped in the water and all of the above evaporated.

As you say....it’s the wife....what she says goes. I, myself, have been lucky...the wife has always supported me having hobbies and is herself a well qualified boater...and strangely, she seems to enjoy boating more and more as the years pass