Nostrodamus
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Oar right a buck.
Sitting at anchor
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Oar right a buck.
ChrisE
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I agree with you Nostro, I find sitting about on a boat very boring. It is part of the reason that we are now selling up. I love the travelling it's the arriving and sitting there doing bugger all that gets me.
mjcoon
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Was it Bernard Moitessier (sp?) who couldn't face the prospect of actually finishing a race so veered off and carried on sailing?
Mike.
Contest1
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SamanthaTabs
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Sailing should be, in my opinion, about freedom. Can't see much freedom in marina hopping. Filling ones time has nothing to do with location; if in a marina step onto the pontoon and explore, if at anchor hop in the tender or kayak if you're lucky enough to have one and row ashore.
EugeneR
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Having jobs and kids, we dream of anchoring and doing nothing.
5 minutes at anchor it becomes 'right, what do we do now'.
There are so many nice things to do, I don't have time to get bored.
That said, my sailing is usually limited to one or two weeks at a time. After that, who knows.
5 minutes at anchor it becomes 'right, what do we do now'.
There are so many nice things to do, I don't have time to get bored.
That said, my sailing is usually limited to one or two weeks at a time. After that, who knows.
Wansworth
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If things are done at a slower pace there is hardly time in the day to err relax.On my recent cruise around Chichester harbour a typical day was moor up off Itchenor tidy the boat(puff cushons up) asemble inflatable and row ashore to get water.Then walk from Itchenor to get the bus to eastwittering to shop,back to a late dinner cook dinner etc enjoy the x boats racing thru the moorings then away to the ISC for a shower and charge up the netbook.Back to the boat to make tea and contacy HQ on scype.Then a walk along the harbour to the Ship.Also time to pnder the universe and what work could ought to be done on the boat sometime in the future.......
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oldbilbo
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Thinking of good times when anchored - and there have been a few - I'm musing, with a glass of Fairy Nuff Rioja, of the time we'd come down from Cardiff, through an electrical storm, and also through St Helens Gap to bring up in the Pool of that name just on 1800hrs. It was quiet and calm there, with warm evening sunshine. I sat in the cockpit doing initial anchor watch, with a decent G&T in hand, while the Good Boatowner - well pleased at the way things had turned out - rustled up a 'Cordon Bleu' meal for us down below.
Now that's the sort of 'doing nothing at anchor' I could do more of.....
Now that's the sort of 'doing nothing at anchor' I could do more of.....
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SimonD
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Thank you for starting this thread; it brought to mind one of my late Father's many words of wisdom: "Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits" I can manage either under the right conditions!
Moonshining
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Me too. I'm a big fan of the tranquility of doing absolutely nothing. I had a blissful couple of hours in the middle of the Solent on Saturday. We were supposed to be racing in one of the Sunsail series, but the wind dropped right off, so they postponed the racing and we were just hanging around. Happily, the small amount of wind and tide balanced nicely and we just sat there in the sunshine, going nowhere. The rest of the crew all fell asleep and I alternated between sitting and thinking with occasional sessions of just sitting.
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Pass the sun cream?
mjcoon
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It's supposed to be difficult to "think of nothing". Everyone has their expertise...
Mike.
