Revolutionary time-saving tip whilst boat ashore

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The boat has been ashore in a yard, and i have just had this amazing idea to save literally days and days of time. What you do, see, is whilst working on the boat instead of the normal routine, try *NOT* chatting to anyone and everyone who comes past about your boat, and also DO NOT go over to them either for a chinwag about their boat either. I reckon i must have saved three days already and i only thought of this four days ago....
 
Why waste time reading and putting posts upon the YBW forums when you could be out doing the gardening.....???? That way, you can go sailing AND have a decent garden /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif!!!!!

But joking apart, surely the whole POINT of sailing is to meet new people etc etc etc..... Oh yes, and to go sailing! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Mind you, even in our boatyard there are one or two people whose arrival is heralded by everyone retreating into the darker recesses of their boats as we all KNOW that a 'chat' will take the rest of the morning /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Trouble is that I can not make up my mind whether I go sailing so that I can talk about it, or talk about it because I go sailing /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

(Actually agree that you have a point here, to get the 100 yards to my boat from the car park usually takes around 3/4 hour by the time I have got past all the other boats being worked on..... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif a far better social life than joining a Yacht Club - no committees, membership fees etc, and the local provides a good bar.)
 
Anti-social bugger

Bet no-one buys you a beer, then you probably don't go near the bar do you!!
I learnt most of my shipwright knowledge, scant though it is, wandering around the yard when my back is killing me in the middle of some poxy job!
 
That's the best thing with working shifts.....go to the boat mid week and only waste 50% of time chatting, if I appear at the weekend I may as well not bother as nothing gets done........saying that a few bottles normally get cracked and we all head home a little wiser!!!

Paul.
 
You can obviously save even more time by paying someone else to do the (boat)work for you.
I usually favour this approach on the basis that, if I (work) work instead, I can probably earn as much or more doing what I do than the boatyard charges me for doing my boat - if you see what I mean.
Unfortunately I generally negate the whole process by not (work) working myself, and chatting to the boatyard and offering them coffee, beer etc whilst they are trying to work on my boat, thus slowing them down.
In fact I may have to re-think the whole process.
 
It can work the other way- I wouldn't have gone down to work on the boat half so much this weekend if it wasn't for the very attractive fit young Russian bloke on the boat next to mine....
ps don't tell my boyfreind
 
I wonder if the attractive, fit, young Russian bloke was being paid to do the work by longjohnsadler. That's a further negation of the whole thing. He's paying someone to give away favours that he would earn more benefit from if he did it himself. Of course I shouldn't think longjohnsadler is attractive, fit, young and Russian.
 
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