Sacrifices for sailing

[JeremyF]

This BB has been a bit dull recently, so lets try another tack....

What sacrifices do people make to fund this sailing habit? For me, it will be the loss of the company car - I'm going to use half the allowance to pay for mooring, and buy a cheapo car as well.

Hidden cost of sailing - family holiday somewhere warm at Easter to get the family to put up with 2 weeks sailing in the summer

Jeremy Flynn

 

[burgundyben]

I am in the same boat

I used to drive a 911 Porsche and a triumph sports, I now have a boat and a £150 astra van.......




For sale, 1970 Triumph Spitfire-sold, 1947 Lambretta, 1922 Great grandmother, PM for details.

 

[Guest]

sold Morgan 4/4 for deposit of first cruiser in 1986.
moved from large modern executive box to old listed terraced cottage for next one.
thankyou property prices upped the mortgage considerably for 3rd.
Stopped expensive foreign holidays.!!!!!!

but worth it ...YES

Pete

 

[Aja]

Sold flat. Moved in with girlfriend. Bought boat.
Regrets? I have a few.......but not about buying the boat!


Donald

 

[jimi]

Probably most peoples main sacrifice is a few years of working! If you take the cost of ownership as c £10K pa then that builds up to pretty healthy pension fund ... but I'd rather have the boat when I'm still young enough to enjoy it!

Jim

 

[Guest]

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[yachtcharisma]

Professional exams?! I took study leave from my job to prepare for an exam, and found myself enjoying the week prowling round boatyards. A month or so later, it was the weekend before the exam itself, but now the sale had gone through, I owned my very first yacht, and wasn't going to pass up a good forecast. So I spent the weekend sailing the boat from Salcombe to its new home in Plymouth via the river Avon. Lovely sail, but I failed the exam! No regrets, though - there were always retakes, and the memory of stepping ashore from my very own boat onto the visitors pontoon at Salcombe still sends a delighted shiver down my spine!

Cheers
Patrick

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[Karlvw]

Your wife buys her clothes.!! Surely that's what old sails are for.

 

[Viking]

I know your problem so well. The ungrateful b**t**ds. In the end I sold the wife into white slavery, the kids to a sweatshop. House? matchbox morelike, and are they grateful? I made the house so small and uncomfortable, that spending time on the boat was more like luxury. Porridge, God you do spoil them. I made them eat the pets. Their selfishness runs to wanting to go on sunny holidays and relax by the pool. I tell them a good blow in a wet 6-7 is good for the soul, character building stuff. The trouble is, some people dont know when their well off.

Now where did I put that Chandley catologue, I need a new 'captains' cap with lots of gold braid. I have had this one all of six months - now thats real sacrifice

 

[jimi]

Ach the spoilt brats! Oors hae turnip sanwiches! Nae butter unless we catch a coo.

Reminds me of an elderly gentleman in Cumnock ( a mining town in Scotland where I was born) who every Sunday would fill an empty drawer in the kitchen with porridge. Slices of this cold porridge would then sustain him during the week!

Jim

 

[tcm]

Re: cor!

how much extra did you have to put in to get the Astra Van? ;-)

Oh, and incidentally, when asked about new boat, the correct response to the question "what did you have before?" is "a lot of money!".

 

[AuntyPodes]

Re: Sacrifices for sailing - philosophic view

Speaking philosophically - one does not make a sacrifice if that which one forgoes is less desirable than that which one enjoys in its place. However, when one offers others (or their interests) as a sacrifice for ones own benefit - that's a whole new can o' worms - and, as all socialists clearly understand, anything goes!

 

[rogerroger]

I've had to stop flushing the toilet with Bollinger and wiping my bum with ten pound notes...

Roger Holden
www.first-magnitude.co.uk