Our daughters just bought a boat; should I be worried.

[john_morris_uk]

Is this boating thing hereditary? Our twenty something old daughter has only just gone and bought a boat at auction. It's a little Pandora 700 and I went to see it for her the other day. On a fairly decent trailer with an Evenrude 7.5 but sans propellor. The sails are slightly not new but very servicable and it';s got an 'A' frame built onto the foredeck for raising and lowering the Mast. She's just paid and we're going to collect it on Friday. I've promised she can use our spare mooring at Saltash if she wants. For a new boat present, we can't decide whether to buy her a new propellor (not much use if the engine doesn't't work and is scrap) or an Admiralty small chart folio of the West Country etc?

Is there any cure. Is there any hope.

What's worse is that she's also started quoting bits of YBW on Pandora's to me.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Get her a navionics subscription

 

[Sandy]

Can I suggest you look at NV Charts. The lovely people at The Sea Chest at QAB converted me last year and I am now hooked on them. My original quest was for charts to the Azores and they showed me the West Country one. A tad cheaper, easier to use as it is in a booklet form and comes with a free electronic version that you can load onto five devices.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Don't become insufferable, the 70, 20, 10 model works!

 

[john_morris_uk]

Don't become insufferable, the 70, 20, 10 model works!

Which is? I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate.

Edit: I've just looked it up. Quite agree - she'll learn from her own experience and ask me when she wants to. She's a very determined and independent young woman who is making a career for herself in the demanding environment of medical writing. We sailed together as a family for years and then university and boyfriend and career got in the way. She came to crew for my wife and I only a few weeks ago and said how much she'd loved sailing again. When she was little she always said she'd buy a boat one day. And now she has.

 

[Concerto]

Oh dear, I can see you getting very busy. "Dad, can you give me a hand to do this/show how to do this/etc"

Glad you have done such a good job to make your daughter want to have her own boat to go sailing.

 

[westhinder]

It is great to see the next generation picking it up.
I know the feeling, my son being an avid catamaran racer at an amazingly high level (ie for the time he can only put in) and my daughter being a sailing instructor at the Glénans.
We took them on our sailing holidays from the ages of 6 and 1. It must be we did something right, I sometimes flatter myself.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Oh dear, I can see you getting very busy. "Dad, can you give me a hand to do this/show how to do this/etc"

Glad you have done such a good job to make your daughter want to have her own boat to go sailing.

You might be right. The boats first home (temporary) is going to be our front driveway/area. “Because you’ve got a pressure washer and all the tools.”

Fortunately we live on a half acre plot with a large gravel area in front of the house and workshop and outside office space so there’s lots of room. However she can jolly well pay storage fees at the club after a short while to do the initial scrubbing and fettling.

 

[Elessar]

Is this boating thing hereditary? Our twenty something old daughter has only just gone and bought a boat at auction. It's a little Pandora 700 and I went to see it for her the other day. On a fairly decent trailer with an Evenrude 7.5 but sans propellor. The sails are slightly not new but very servicable and it';s got an 'A' frame built onto the foredeck for raising and lowering the Mast. She's just paid and we're going to collect it on Friday. I've promised she can use our spare mooring at Saltash if she wants. For a new boat present, we can't decide whether to buy her a new propellor (not much use if the engine doesn't't work and is scrap) or an Admiralty small chart folio of the West Country etc?

Is there any cure. Is there any hope.

What's worse is that she's also started quoting bits of YBW on Pandora's to me.

Thank your lucky stars. She could have bought a mobo.

 

[Tomahawk]

O even worse....

A jet ski.

 

[Stemar]

Is there any cure. Is there any hope.

None. She's opened Pandora's box, so you're in real trouble now. How's the bank of Mum & Dad?

On the plus side, she'll probably reduce the amount of useful boat junk that's cluttering up your garage. On the minus side, she'll need somewhere to put her useful boat junk...

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Imray west country folio, and get her to instal isailor on her smart phone and pay for her electronic chart. That is assuming the boat has radio with GPS and DSC. If no radio get her as priority that as you can eyeball the Plymouth sound but its very useful to be able to ask for assistance in things fail, and quite helpful to hear what QHM or Police Launch want of you.

I wish my two liked sailing, I just have to fix and service their various cars

 

[Cathy*]

Our daughter left the RN and has had enough of boats, she bought a horse. An equal money pit to a boat and she's had 2 broken collar bones so far this year. I'd be less worried if she'd bought a boat.

 

[Easticks28]

Next thing you'll be worrying about her shacking up with a sailor

 

[sailaboutvic]

My son married a sailing instructor and it was funny when we all sailed to gather especially as I use to instruct some year back , I use to sit back and let them get on with it .
But with two children now they not got around to buying a boat although they both have the bug , maybe there waiting for me to kick the bucket .

 

[[2574]]

However she can jolly well pay storage fees at the club after a short while to do the initial scrubbing and fettling.

That made me giggle. No chance. "Dad, I'm a bit short for the club fees this week, could I wash your car for you? It'll only be £100"

And there's no chance you can resist. Not a hope. Ha ha. Luverly......

 

[Lucky Duck]

What's worse is that she's also started quoting bits of YBW on Pandora's to me.

Does that include the infamous 'engineers' threads where two parts of a boat share at Creeksea purchased a 15hp outboard which when installed in the outboard well prevented the tiller from crossing the center line?

Edit - looks like they have been removed - this is all that is left (along with a thread regarding fall out within his in sailing club) - Is 15HP ok on a 22ft Pandora?

 

[mjcoon]

Our daughter left the RN and has had enough of boats, she bought a horse. An equal money pit to a boat and she's had 2 broken collar bones so far this year. I'd be less worried if she'd bought a boat.

And just think of all that useful manure...

 

[Praxinoscope]

Could well be hereditary, my daughter took to sailing like a deck to water, maybe the experience of being on board for a full week of racing during Plymouth Week, at the ripe old age of 6 months helped, but whatever she has crewed on the Tall Ships Races and achieved her Yachtmaster Offshore at the grand old age of 24, when it took me until I was 35 to get mine.
Present her with the Admiralty Chart Folio, I have left a mooring without power, but never without charts on board.

 

[johnalison]

Ours both married definite non-sailors and moved well away from the coast. This was a shame because they both enjoyed sailing a lot and still come occasionally with their children. At least j_m's Christmas and birthday decisions are made easier for years to come.