sleeping onboard on the hard

[jakeroyd]

my boat will be on the hard one night this week ao i can antifoul for the coming season.
Means a night on the hard aboard.

This always gives me an uneasy feeling.

Do others feel the same ?

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

my boat will be on the hard one night this week ao i can antifoul for the coming season.
Means a night on the hard aboard.

This always gives me an uneasy feeling.

Do others feel the same ?

Doesnt worry me apart from the ladder and the lack of heads.

 

[alteredoutlook]

No, the floating caravan just becomes a static caravan!

 

[dylanwinter]

I love sleeping in boatyards

I really like sleeping in the boatyard

I feel very secure - the boat is level

surrounded by all those bigger boats to protect the slug from the wind

power on demand

 

[SimbaDog]

Doesnt worry me apart from the ladder and the lack of heads.

You need a holding tank

 

[Baggy]

I spent 3 months on the hard.. no probs

Top Tip..
dont mix guiness and a curry..
3 oclock in the morining you will get only 20 seconds warning

 

[Bobobolinsky]

No problems, can't sink (Unless the water comes up six feet )
After a long refit, I am getting tired of climbing ladder all the time, but back in the water in June

 

[AIDY]

it's fine in a cradle, bit uneasy last weekend onboard when the wind ripped through gosport. better in a cradle than props...

some boat yards don't allow it these days "health and safety".... just in case you fall down the ladder in the night. only problem as mentioned is having a pee in the night.

 

[nathanlee]

my boat will be on the hard one night this week ao i can antifoul for the coming season.
Means a night on the hard aboard.

This always gives me an uneasy feeling.

Do others feel the same ?

Did it for a year, every night. Not good. Not good at all.

 

[fireball]

only problem as mentioned is having a pee in the night.

Don't you just stand at the guard rails as normal?

 

[AIDY]

Don't you just stand at the guard rails as normal?

gets a bit draughty

 

[dylanwinter]

bad idea

Don't you just stand at the guard rails as normal?

you end up scattering stuff all over the area you will be working or rolling around under the boat

I spent some time living in a ranch bunhouse with five smelly, snoring cowboys

two bare patches either side of the steps on the porch

Dylan

 

[ghostlymoron]

I find sleeping in the boatyard is fine. Fan heater on mains supply for heat, small bucket placed in heads works fine for waste. (empty under cover of darkness)

 

[Poignard]

Unfortunately the yard where I lay up now forbids it on H&S grounds but I never found it a problem sleeping on board. A bucket in the cockpit was fine for peeing in and it was emptied into the yard lavatory next morning.

The only downside was the clattering of other people's bloody halyards!

 

[[70521]]

Do others feel the same ?

No.

 

[Halo]

I regularly sleep on board in the boatyard during winter lay-up. Get round the "pee in the night" issue by making disposaible single use chamber pots from old supermarket plastic milk bottles - just rinse out and cut the top off whilst leaving the handle. Much more discreet than pissing over the side and less likely to realise the fear of the jobsworths who ban overnighting in some yards.
If you have a small member you can probably get away with leaving the screw top on and having an even better totally sealed pee container !!
It also helps to drink wine or whisky rather than ale!!

 

[prv]

You need a holding tank

Still not gonna flush.

Pete

 

[fireball]

you end up scattering stuff all over the area you will be working or rolling around under the boat

I spent some time living in a ranch bunhouse with five smelly, snoring cowboys

two bare patches either side of the steps on the porch

Dylan

Dontcha just luv it when someone takes your comment seriously ...

 

[OldBawley]

We go out for a month!. Pure hell which is why I waited for seven years after the last antifouling.
Have held the boat clean by snorkelling and diving, now some sea-cocks are due to be renewed so now found a traditional yard ( Sledging ) where a 70 year old wooden yacht can be taken out the old way. One month, scratching off all antifouling and putting on Coppercoat.
The hull is white oak, renewed in 1970 and glassfibered over. In those days fibreglass was new, so they did a thorough job. Planking is an inch of oak and glass fibre thickness from ½ inch under water to 3 mm above. Glass fibre was totally new to the yard, they new nothing about it, so they hired a painter- wallpaper hanger to do the job, took him a month.
Searched long for a yard that would not be totally hell. This one, in the middle of nature, some wooden boats, a guard dog, some chickens and a absolutely beautiful shed full of museum machines and old chunky wood. A bit more than half a mile dingy sailing to Poros town, good for the moments I am sick of scratching that giant keel and hull.
Still, forty times a day up and down that ladder, no heads, no seawater to do a hundred cleaning tasks. And than the wind. The boat swinging behind its anchor, the wind dos no harm, presents its smallest windage, most of the boat been in the water anyway. Standing so high up the sledge on land, the lightest wind makes the old boat moan. Me to.
The worst is been unable to change place. One month on the same place, eeeek.
It is the last time for me, If I can sail 6 kn with seven years old remains of antifouling, Coppercoat will be good for ten years. By then, Swimbo and me will be the ones needing care.

 

[rob2]

Nothing wrong with a funnel in the cockpit drain! The rain usually flushes it overnight...

Rob.