Paid Hand......

[Wansworth]

Would you like one,I quite like the idea but it would call for a thirty five footer at least.Would be handy to look after the boat Polish everything and hopefully have a history so a mine of stories and anecdotes ,probably a grumpy old git?......pure fantasy?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Would you like one,I quite like the idea but it would call for a thirty five footer at least.Would be handy to look after the boat Polish everything and hopefully have a history so a mine of stories and anecdotes ,probably a grumpy old git?......pure fantasy?

I enjoy sailing in company with other boats but like to sail on my own. I've got worse as I've got older. Grumpy old....................

I'm too skint to pay someone to clean it.

 

[dgadee]

MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS.: Amazon.co.uk: Muir, Surgeon Rear-Admiral John R.: Books

Very good on paid hand.

 

[Clancy Moped]

For my 11th birthday I asked for valet, it fell on deaf ears.

 

[doug748]

MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS.: Amazon.co.uk: Muir, Surgeon Rear-Admiral John R.: Books

Very good on paid hand.

That's a great book.


I usually singlehand and often think I would like assistance....

......She could do the washing up as well.

 

[Daydream believer]

Would you like one,I quite like the idea but it would call for a thirty five footer at least.Would be handy to look after the boat Polish everything and hopefully have a history so a mine of stories and anecdotes ,probably a grumpy old git?......pure fantasy?

You mean that you do not already have one? Oh dear!! you poor man. How awful

 

[Graham376]

You mean that you do not already have one? Oh dear!! you poor man. How awful

That reminds me of some tosser I met at Hamble Point. Walking down the pontoon in boiler suit, carrying some engine bits, some old geezer I passed literally had his marigolds on, along with Sunday best clothes, dusting his handrails. Asked me if I was looking for work and when I replied I was working on my own boat, he said Oh dear, I have a man who does that.

 

[Frogmogman]

You mean that you do not already have one? Oh dear!! you poor man. How awful

Quite so.

 

[Daydream believer]

That reminds me of some tosser I met at Hamble Point. Walking down the pontoon in boiler suit, carrying some engine bits, some old geezer I passed literally had his marigolds on, along with Sunday best clothes, dusting his handrails. Asked me if I was looking for work and when I replied I was working on my own boat, he said Oh dear, I have a man who does that.

Odd how people react
I suppose if one walks about looking like an out of work "person" it is not unreasonable to assume that one might be taken for one.
Some people would have been more than glad of the invitation & rather than referring to him as a" tosser" would have thanked him & got on with the work.

 

[Frogmogman]

Odd how people react
I suppose if one walks about looking like an out of work "person" it is not unreasonable to assume that one might be taken for one.
Some people would have been more than glad of the invitation & rather than referring to him as a" tosser" would have thanked him & got on with the work.

It is the business of the wealthy man, to give employment to the artisan.

(Lord Finchley - Hilaire Belloc).

 

[dom]

It is the business of the wealthy man, to give employment to the artisan.

(Lord Finchley - Hilaire Belloc).

And for us not to touch our boats!

"Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light​

Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!​

​

....It is the business of the wealthy man​

To give employment to the artisan."​

?

 

[Tomaret]

That reminds me of some tosser I met at Hamble Point. Walking down the pontoon in boiler suit, carrying some engine bits, some old geezer I passed literally had his marigolds on, along with Sunday best clothes, dusting his handrails. Asked me if I was looking for work and when I replied I was working on my own boat, he said Oh dear, I have a man who does that.

I assumed that if you can afford a marina on the Hamble you can afford a man, or perhaps if you’ve paid for a marina berth on the Hamble you can’t afford one?

One of the things I retired from was managing other people and I wouldn‘t fancy taking it up for sailing. My wife deals with all the people we have in at home (I’m a bit of a Lord Finchley when it comes to 240v) so I don’t have to.

 

[Stemar]

I have two hands - one on the end of each arm. They don't get paid a lot, though.

As for a paid hand, that's my deal breaker condition for owning a wooden boat. I hate varnishing!

 

[Poignard]

That reminds me of some tosser I met at Hamble Point. Walking down the pontoon in boiler suit, carrying some engine bits, some old geezer I passed literally had his marigolds on, along with Sunday best clothes, dusting his handrails. Asked me if I was looking for work and when I replied I was working on my own boat, he said Oh dear, I have a man who does that.

One of those situations where you feel a suitably cutting riposte is called for but you can't think of one until it is too late.

 

[Gary Fox]

It is the business of the wealthy man, to give employment to the artisan.

(Lord Finchley - Hilaire Belloc).

A point of interest: Belloc had a big old gaff cutter, an ex-pilot vessel, and he was an adventurous cruising yachtsman. He wrote a book about sailing, I forget the name, although I have it on a shelf somewhere. Little-known and rather wonderful, and he'd definitely been there and got the T-shirt...
One of his crew also wrote 'Sailing with Belloc', which is excellent as well. There are some hair-raising stories which are worth reading for seamanship lessons, although often in the 'how not to do it' category!
Belloc's out of fashion right now, non-PC presumably.
'Beware of letting go of nurse,
For fear of finding something worse..'

 

[Poignard]

A point of interest: Belloc had a big old gaff cutter, an ex-pilot vessel, and he was an adventurous cruising yachtsman. He wrote a book about sailing, I forget the name, although I have it on a shelf somewhere. Little-known and rather wonderful, and he'd definitely been there and got the T-shirt...
One of his crew also wrote 'Sailing with Belloc', which is excellent as well. There are some hair-raising stories which are worth reading for seamanship lessons, although often in the 'how not to do it' category!
Belloc's out of fashion right now, non-PC presumably.
'Beware of letting go of nurse,
For fear of finding something worse..'

"Cruise of the Nona"

An excerpt that resonates with me :

 

[Frogmogman]

One of those situations where you feel a suitably cutting riposte is called for but you can't think of one until it is too late.

What in French is called l'esprit d'escalier (when you think of the" juste mot" too late, as you are going back down the stairs)

 

[Gary Fox]

That reminds me of some tosser I met at Hamble Point. Walking down the pontoon in boiler suit, carrying some engine bits, some old geezer I passed literally had his marigolds on, along with Sunday best clothes, dusting his handrails. Asked me if I was looking for work and when I replied I was working on my own boat, he said Oh dear, I have a man who does that.

Marigolds?
?

 

[dom]

Paid hand?
Golly, I remember when a "Slow Hand" was all the rage

 

[Wansworth]

I was sculling about west Cowes years ago and was hailed by two well dressed gentlemen who wanted a lift to their yacht which I obliged......on another occasion was out sailing with a member of the island sailing. Club who had a paid hand who certainly knew his place as I never saw him till we motored back to Cowes and the owner called him to be ready to moor up.And then there was the paid hand on a mini luxury yacht who was exceedingly anti social whilst the owner was a fine chap