Even brand new boats can be far from perfect.....many have snagging lists as long as your arm.
Buying the right boat brings potential for joy, but usually amid discomfort and inconvenience, a great deal of waiting around, then effort and such an array of foreseeable and unexpected costs that will wipe the smiles off any who believe what you've written there.
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We were walking past the slipway at the bottom of our street....and as always I stop to watch the action....and I said to the wife...’do you remember when we like that, a well oiled machine, I think that it was the time when we just worked together and really clicked as a team...’There's good sense in that, Bouba. A trailable boat can be berthed or moored, overnight or indefinitely, but it needn't spend a day longer there than is good value to pay for. That advantage is outstanding to me now, and will likely decide my next boat.
Buying the right boat brings potential for joy, but usually amid discomfort and inconvenience, a great deal of waiting around, then effort and such an array of foreseeable and unexpected costs that will wipe the smiles off any who believe what you've written there.
I mean, genuinely, good luck with the upbeat and optimistic side, but Wansworth's too smart to dive in because "it's all joy".
Four years after selling, I keep on being glad I don't have a boat. I want one, of course - that's inevitable. I've had 'em, and I loved 'em, and I enjoy envisaging good times aboard my next. I see fine weather, pleasing passage-making, idyllic anchorages
...but I can tell you (all of you, who may have forgotten) that this forum is a fantastic place to be while not owning a boat. As well as pictures and descriptions of stuff we can admire and dream of, there's a ceaseless schedule of unenviable owners' problems, frustrations, fears and costs, ample to deter anyone that ever enjoyed putting their feet up and wondering how to spend a weekend.
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I came out of retirement to write that toputtherecord straight.Betweenyou and me I might be making a detour to view a yacht but it’s very wet hereabouts
Ooh, We can help you with compiling nautical lists, or which coffee goes with which boaty gear upgrade
But first of course you have to… B etc
Whether or not it was boring for us is irrelevant. You need to go sailing & enjoy yourself. I get the impression ( I do not mean this nastily) that you are too much of an indesisive faffer to do boat maintenance. You need a boat you can sail.
Active retirement is goodI came out of retirement to write that toputtherecord straight.Betweenyou and me I might be making a detour to view a yacht but it’s very wet hereabouts
Non starter Iam afraid……spent time controlling a RC yacht……fun but abit boring,but thanks for thethough!
Yes but just think of the advantages, none of us are getting any younger. You'll be future proofing yourself.
Last time I was in England, walking through a park, there was a small lake....and a group of model boaters....and they attract a lot of attention. The models are really impressive and they demonstrate a lot of skill and time....at one point I had the urge to call out, I have a real one of those !....but I didn’t think that would go down well with the Maidstone crowd....
Or, like a retired engineer of my acquaintance, build a model yacht destined to sail the Atlantic under its own navigation. It transmits its location periodically so you can see how far it gets. And retrieve it when it blows ashore just down the coast from the launch site!
Just throw a message in a bottle..
Wansy would find it far more fun than model yachtsI get vertigo!A decent competitive 1 metre model yacht will not leave much change from £3.5K. My friend bought one new for that when he hurt his knee & could not sail for a year. However he found our model yacht club so anal that he soon packed it in & sold it to me for £350-00. I am afraid that I found them no better & also gave up due to the attitude of the members. I sold it on for £350 to another friend & he has packed up after 3 months
It could be fun if the crowd we sailed with were more helpful & less argumentive. As a sailor I know the rules & after one collision I was having a migraine aura. I had to go back to the car park to get my pills & this prat followed me all the way to my car arguing about the protest, whilst I was trying not to fall over from dizzyness & blinding headache.
I now fly model planes at a club where the members could not be more fun. Unfortunately due to my leg & feet issue I cannot stand on the field for more than a couple of minutes, so have had to call a halt to that for a while as I might fall over whilst in control of a plane.
Eventually you would be out to grow the biggest onions? Gotta be done so you can show your friendsCan one not cruise a radio-controlled yacht?
Any attempt to involve me in competition would turn me into a keen gardener.
