sleeping with my wife - terrible dilemma

Dylan
somehow I feel the tbt's have soaked through you boots and effected you.

I do wonder about your dilema, does one sleep with a beautiful woman in a wonderful anchorage in a second choice boat?
Or
sleep in a first choice boat but on ones own mmmmmmm.
Good god man, I hope she doesn't read these quandries of yours?!
Is it not the surroundings that's the draw, or is it the image of man and vessel in those surroundings.
I sail quite alot with my wife and also alot solo. it's absolutely fantastic to be on ones own only bettered with the othe half of the fraction forming the whole!
Love the films can we have more of your wife in them please?

Bob
 
Thanks Dylan, best smiley post for ages! As to your predicament, you need to ask?........No really Dylan, do you really need to ask?:)
 
Dylan, when you get the Liberty, please can I come for a sail? I used to berth next to one and was always impressed with the rig and the layout but wondered how they sailed.

These days I'd go up to my neighbour and ask but I was new and nervous back then.

sailorman said:
Hot wives are expensive to run :)
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Tell me about it.
 
Just a point, but
She don't come sailing now

So is a double sleeping bag going to cure that?

Is it then going to be lack of headroom?

No shower in the heads?

Get the boat you want

Personally I think you will miss the roller reefing
 
If your wife wants to go sailing with you, I'd do everything possible to encourage it. I have, by buying a much bigger boat, going from 24ft to 40 ft. Involve your wife with the purchase, take her with you to the viewings. I would have purchased a 30 ft boat, but my wife didn't like it, it didn't have what I termed "the scatter cushion effect". We jointly agreed to double our budget to get want she wanted. But now it is no longer my boat but our boat, likewise with the costs. It is no longer just my hobby but a joint hobby.

PS The boat we purchased has almost a proper double bed!
 
Surely it is simple, buy a second wife who has warm blood and pole dancing talents and keep her on the boat. That way you have the best of both worlds and everyone is happy.
 
The pole dilemma

many interesting points raised here

first of all is that it is hard to escape innuendo with this subject

Lakey's suggestion is a good one - about the bracing

also

I thought that the Hunter Minstrel had roller reefing - I shall have to take a second look.

As for the suggestion that I always sail alone - clearly not true

Jill does sail with me - and has appeared in some of the films - but she is very cold intolerant - nothing medical - she just does not see the point of suffering - whereas I love the winter sailing and the solitude and the feeling that I am 'well ard'.

as for allowing my wife to upgrade me from a 30 footer to a forty footer -

keep up at the back chaps - the reason I am full of angst about replacing an old diesel is because I shall never be in a position to own a boat where scatter cushions of any sort are involved

I would like a more reliable boat but nothing ever as big as 40 foot

I would hate to lose the ability to explore the crinkly bits and become one of those poor depth chalenged people for whom a night on the wild side is clinging to a hook at the entrance to Pyefleet creek where they can gaurantee six feet under the keel right through the tide cycle

I have got so used to taking risks with the ground that I am sure I would come unstuck

The Wash and North Norfolk have been wonderful places to explore - the humber(whenever I get there) will be a treat

and I would be terrified of sailing a 40 footer single handed

I confess that when I started this journey it was with the stupidly optimistic supposition that my BBC Natural History unit contract and the google money were pretty secure revenue streams - o u fule

and that I would be flogging TV progs about sailing and maybe selling so many DVDs of the journey that replacing or upgrading the slug would be a simple matter of writing a cheque for the boat of my choice - or blagging a beneteau

However, I am lucky in that I am in a position to contemplate a modest change of boat set against an ongoingly bleak cash flow projection - so whatever I buy has to be cheaper to run than the slug

thank you chaps for your ongoing help and advice

I doubt that I will be sharing this thread with Jill

although thanks for saying how beautiful she is

I think she is and she is the best (only) wife I have ever had

-she is a very, very tolerant woman

Dylan
 
dylanwinter said:
Jill does sail with me - and has appeared in some of the films - but she is very cold intolerant - nothing medical - she just does not see the point of suffering - whereas I love the winter sailing and the solitude and the feeling that I am 'well ard'.

Dylan
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No doubt you have tried it but we find the right food provides personal central heating

Ainsley Harriot Szechuan hot and sour cup soup

Chille

Chocolate

even better, chille made with chocolate

anything containing paprika

Hot water bottles more effective between thighs than on toes, makes more effective use of the counter current heat exchange flow of blood in legs.

After your success with duck punt have you considered Phil Bolger Micro?


First success with embed, thanks Dylan for your instruction in Round Britain thread
 
Originally Posted by dylanwinter

Jill does sail with me - and has appeared in some of the films - but she is very cold intolerant - nothing medical - she just does not see the point of suffering - whereas I love the winter sailing and the solitude and the feeling that I am 'well ard'.

Dylan
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Fit a Webasto then. When she's not there you just leave it off.
 
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Hi Dylan,

Won't dream of suggesting you get a 40ft boat, just making the point that by involving my wife from the beginning, I got a larger boat that I bargained for and that boaty costs are no longer only my fault/problem. :)
 
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Getting a bit crosseyed with all these 'add ons' to Dylans new boat quest.
When you get it, maybe Paradox would be a better name than Inuendo or Dylans Dylemma.

Anyway, a quick look ay the Hunter liberty owners sight shows the perfect two rig boat. Trailerable is the ONLY way IMO that you will ever downsize financially on the Slug and hit the other targets..

So there you are, Go forth and Multiply and enjoy it as well:)
 
There's a Liberity next door to me in the yard, it sits on a road trailer but the owner doesn't have the space to take it home. I was curious about the sail plan and how well it sails, so we've arrange to have a sail sometime this summer. He mainly sails on his own and was busy redoing this lines so that they all lead back to the cockpit, which he felt was going to make his life much easier and safer.
Does look a lovely boat from all angles.
 
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