Sport or Hobby ?

[byron]

Now! I loathe sports, all sports, they bore me to distraction and I can safely state I have never read a sports page in my life. Now someone referred to my boating as a Sport which made my teeth itch. Is motor boating a Sport or Hobby, if it's a sport I shall have to give it up.
Other things that bore me Poetry and Classical Music (barring Stones/Little Richard etc.)

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[boatone]

Only sport if taken very seriously.racing etc etc etc otherwise hobby if strictly for fun/pleasure,
Poetry - excet for fun stuff agreed but classical music can be sheer heaven

boatone@boatsonthethames.co.uk

 

[kimhollamby]

Byron, this causes us all sorts of problems as a business, in particular when marketing the internet sites. Inevitably boating gets sucked into the sport categories of large portals and search engines but that is about 20 per cent of what we cover, albeit the sport side (ie competitive sailing and, to a lesser extent, powerboat racing) often provides the easiest news sources.

Boating as far as I am concerned, and with regard to much of what are magazines and websites are about, is a hobby or, for those who cannot tolerate that sometimes discredited word, a pastime. So you needn't give up just yet, even if you have just had a good offer on your boat!

Incidentally, that also raises a forum issue, for it is noticeable that people who enjoy boating as a sport are not great forum posters or letter/e-mail writers. Does that mean they care less passionately about boating per se...I am sure not, but perhaps the priorities are very different?

 

[hlb]

I think it can sort of meander through. Hobby, Sport and bloody hard work. all in the same day.
I mean, you can hardly call bashing into a f6 a hobby! Can you. And pottering along the thames is hardly a sport. Zooming down big waves with a following sea, now that could be a sport.
Then Setting off for the Channel Isles or some place is more adventuring, till close to one side or tother, then hobby again.

Haydn

 

[oldgit]

Boating wonderful thing to enjoy alone or take friends along to share experience.

 

[scottie]

Re: naval gazing

interesting to hear your observations and dilema!

the real answer of course is that most of us are deluded into thinking it might be a sport or pastime when if you were to as her indoors she wopuld tell you that it is an obsession

 

[ArthurWood]

Byron, I've always considered sport to have an element of competition, eg boat racing, but if you just use your boat for your own enjoyment and no competition, isn't it by definition a hobby? You don't like ANY poetry or ANY classical music?!
Hmmm.............

 

[Guest]

It is simultaniuosly a religion, philosophy, vocation and reason for our existence. This is why our biggest festival; Chrismas, is held at the turning point of the non-boating season.

 

[Guest]

Nothing less than a Religion. This is why we do it on a sunday, and why we celebrate christmas as the mid point of the non-boating season, easter as the birth of a new season and halloween as the terrifying transition into the next non-boating season.

 

[lanason]

Neither Sport nor Hobby - It must and can only be an OBSESSION.
Definition
1) Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2) A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

Of course the word obsession infers some form of ATTACK and of course all boating is resisting attack.

storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade.
Rational or Irrational OBSESSION

Adrian

 

[ToMo]

Yes! NM

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[tripleace]

I thought it was an inheritance tax avoidance scheme.

You buy a boat a spend your childrens inheritance on the boat, which they can sell (after you gone) at a fraction of what you have spent on it.

 

[boatmad2]

I know what you mean, I have similar feelings about sports. The question about boating being a sport is an old one. Personnally I feel that maybe playing with rags and string may be considered a sport, after all it looks painfull enough.

 

[BarryH]

It all depends on what club will have you!

 

[byron]

No Arthur, Poetry just plain irritates me, classical music such as Elvis, Beatles I enjoy. Bach, Beathoven just sounds like a lot of geezers tuning up at the same time to me.

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[BarryD]

It's a hobby, and a dammed expensive one. We shall have to differ on the classical music front.