Sitting at anchor

Nostrodamus

Nostrodamus

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I find it really difficult to just sit there at anchor all day in the sun.

I am a man with man’s needs. Just sat there for more than 10 minutes in the sun is akin to Chinese water torture.

I need toys to play with and unless I find some I start taking things apart, cleaning things and generally being more annoying than I am normally.

A bit of snorkelling may liven things up for a while unless I see a big ugly fish (which may be my own reflection) coming towards me. Then it is time to get out.

A book may pass several second before I get bored of that.

I may be the only one like this but I really hate doing nothing.

(For anyone in the UK please ignore this post as it is unlikely you will ever get bored just sat in the sun for the 10 seconds a year it shines. You have got more exciting things to do like sail with them big white things attached to the mast)
 
There is something disturbing about not being able to do nothing and enjoy it. There is always time to do stuff and stuff to do in time, enjoying doing nothing is a pleasure that should be savoured.
 
BlowingOldBoots said:
There is something disturbing about not being able to do nothing and enjoy it. There is always time to do stuff and stuff to do in time, enjoying doing nothing is a pleasure that should be savoured.
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Doing nothing to me is a waste of time. I need to fit at least four lifetimes in the time I have available. I cannot do nothing. Want to buy 424 partially made wicker baskets!!!
 
Well you have chosen a life that mot of us cannot or do not dare to do. Explore the world. So, if you get bored carry on doing it and don't waste your time doing nothing.

PS: i envy you! Not for doing nothing but for the rest you are doing.
 
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Don't knock it Nostro, you are still in the honeymoon period. Toys will start to break soon and you will spend may hours trying to fix them, assuming you can get the bits necessary to fix them.

All this will be happening to you as others are sitting in the sun, chilling with a lovely ice cold beer. You well be down in the bilge, sweating like a pig and smelling like a Turkish wrestlers jockstrap

I speak as someone who had eleven electric pumps on board, all of which I serviced and eventually replaced. They always broke in remote, hot places and cost a fortune to source. Somewhere between £1,500 and £2,000 just to stay where you were before they broke!
 
Being stuck in marina after marina is our idea of torture, financial and otherwise. Dropping the hook at anchor, waking up to relative peace and quiet in a beautiful setting is bliss. General boat cleaning stuff, take a dip, row ashore and explore different places, meet new people, attempt to learn new languages, find the local food markets, hiking/ kayaking/ historical trips - none of which are costly.
Best bit? When you're truly bored of one place just up anchor and move on. It's exciting!
 
Retired in Crete said:
Give me a shout if you ever get near Crete. I can find you plenty to do on my boat and if you get bored with that you can sort my garden.

John
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John,
We have a couple of plastic plants on board but all credit to you. A full garden aboard. I know a few people with dogs who would love your boat.
 
aslabend said:
Hmmm, reading a book, fishing, listening to music, all perfectly acceptable ways of doing nothing.
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Reading a book.... Occasionally I have to read one when I cannot put back together the thing I have taken apart.. I think they are called manuals and it is the last resort.
Fishing............... Done with a magnet, after reading the manual and realising the left over bit I threw overboard I now need.
Music................ Turned up to maximum so no one can hear me cussing!
 
I cannot believe I am the only one who gets bored.
What do you do just sat there on the deck in the sun?
I have been banned from having a spear gun for some reason (anyone want to by a slightly deflated dingy)
I tried a bit of bird watching but all I saw were saggy, hairy, German nudists and French men peeing over the side (Does everyone in Germany walk round naked because they seem to on boats?) Why do German men insist on touching their toes as exercise when they are naked?
 
You seem to be missing argumentative company.
How are your (local) languages? Already fluent?
Pitch in with the Mediterranean locals and argue Angela Merkel's case.
And if you're not in the Med yet, rather than reading a book, write one.
Your web site and posts show you have a fine sense of comedy . . . so just keep entertaining us!
 
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Nostrodamus said:
I tried a bit of bird watching but all I saw were saggy, hairy, German nudists and French men peeing over the side ...
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I think you must have been ignoring the snappy response that Bill Oddie gave when asked about how to do birdwatching: "Look up!".

(Of course, that assumes that you are not doing it in a dinghy, deflated or not, alongside a French boat full of chaps needing a pee...)

Mike.
 
jimbaerselman said:
You seem to be missing argumentative company.
How are your (local) languages? Already fluent?
Pitch in with the Mediterranean locals and argue Angela Merkel's case.
And if you're not in the Med yet, rather than reading a book, write one.
Your web site and posts show you have a fine sense of comedy . . . so just keep entertaining us!
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Come on Jim... You think the Paloma bull run is done for the locals... Bah.. everyone in there is a foreigner who tried to support Angela Merkle. I seen them being transported there every year and very few return.
Still not in the Med, it is ten minutes round the corner. Have you ever tried speaking gibralterish (Spanglish or Gibberish). They don't even know what they are saying themselves.
Don't mention a book. I never eluded to one last time and see what happened. One of the longest threads on here about something I never said.
 
Hmm. Pity. I've found nothing turns our local cafenion into a live bullfight quicker than praising Angela's austerity measures. And I only speak very limited Greek!

So, you'd better nip across to Morocco then, and start on your Arabic. That would be a typing challenge too . . . that'll keep you occupied for a day or two.

Once you're bored with that, nip back north to Celtic waters, where the tidal streams run strong and rocks have to be dodged. Set a target of visiting a new port every day, travelling through a previously unexplored channel. Dump the autopilot. Not much time for sunbathing and reading then - except charts and tidetables. Let life be spiced dealing with the adrenaline rush when you can't find the transit and your prop grabs a lobster pot line and halts the boat . . .
 
Nostrodamus said:
Don't mention a book. I never eluded to one last time and see what happened. One of the longest threads on here about something I never said.
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Is that "eluded" as in (from a handy dictionary):

1) Escape, either physically or mentally
2) Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
3) Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

I think we now know why you don't read...

Mike.
 
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