Smokers on board.

I had a mate, let's call him Pete (because that's his name) came for a trip once. Very breezy, rolly downwind trip, Poole to Solent.

Pete looked a bit under the weather, so I told him to put something warm on. He wouldn't. I'd offered him Stugeron the night before we left, because he hadn't been too good on the outward trip, but, no thanks. Had also tried to get him to eat well pre departure. Suggested that he steer and watch the horizon. No. Told him to lay down on the leeward seats, to stop himself being swayed around - but he just sat in the hatchway, blocking it for all others, wouldn't move, said he'd be alright.

That's when I discovered how to cure queasiness.

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Thought that Villiers smoked themselves - my friend's ones always did..?

Villiger Rio 6 is indeed the weapon of choice. As endorsed by Van Morrison, singer / songwriter and - idiot.

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I may well have confused the motorised bicicular with the rolled leaf, but such is life.

Villiger idiot

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I'm a smoker, I would never smoke below and would never go on a boat that was owned by an idiot that wouldn't let me smoke in the cockpit. If he/she thinks that I'm good enough to be invited for my exceedingly good manners, natural charm and dispostion then they invite the smoker as well.
Betweeen 25-30% of the population smoke ergo it is fair to say that the same percentage of sailors smoke.

I honestly never realised that because I smoke I can't navigate or sail a boat because I'm an idiot,,strange that. I now have to wonder how I managed to take all those anglers out and get them back safely, deliver boats to France, Belgium and Holland and find pot markers all before the advent of GPS? I'll have to look at all those forms I filled in for my BM and YM offshore commercial to see where I missed to box that says if you smoke your an idiot and can't possibly be qualified to hold such things.

Peter the smoking Boatman.

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I'm too stupid to navigate. I just go out, and when I want to come home I just follow the trail of butts.

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Re: Good point!

You absolute plonker, not only are you an idiot, yer blind as well as illegible .. its still there!

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So I still don't get it... Are you an idiot for smoking and should thus not be allowed on a boat per se, or are you just defined as an idiot if you actually smoke on the boat?

I recall a study done a few years ago that showed that smokers scored better on tests compared to non smokers if they had just had a cigarette - but worse if there had been a certain time passed between their last cigarette and the particular test. Given that the study was correct, shouldn't one be more stupid for not allowing smokers to smoke on the yacht?

If so, I am an idiot for - while having an occasional cigar myself ashore - not allowing smoking on board.

The cosiest boats I've ever been to belong to people who smoke pipes below. Not so sure about cigarrettes though...

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Post deleted in sheer embarassment- couldn't see with all the smoke and ash flying in my face.

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Re: Good point!

Quite right hope you are suitably embarassed. It not many people that tell TCM he's an ugly chimp that live to tell the tale!

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Must admit I felt Nickel and his wife had drawn the short straw with us on the Butters cruise.
There were 6 of us and 4 of those smoked, as I'm skipper I don't mind smoking as long as its considerate and not down below.

Judging by the rest of the thread I was very lucky to have Nickel along as the rest of us idiots hadn't a clue....

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I allowed some so called good friends who smkoed on board on a cross channel trip....little did I know they kept sneaking away to smoke some other stuff....

I flipped when they left some outsize roll-up papers on deck in full view of any passing by Gendarmes.....god only knows what would have happened to me if the police had spotted them before I did...We might all have got the marrigold treatment....

I know I would find it very awkward asking if I could search their baggage before a trip....but the Customs/Coastguard would have no such qualms searching everywhere and maybe confiscating my boat....Know your Friends

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Lots of guests, lots

of crew. Never any problems.

No explosives, no petrol but do have propane and butane and a healthy respect for the dangers of fire.


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