Taking SWMBO to LIBS

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We are going to the show tomorrow (Saturday). I mentioned to SWMBO that as it is a new location, bigger etc, that we should put together a 'passage plan'. I suggested we use the pull out from December's YM, and plan our day to ensure we get to visit the right stalls and not lose time on the wrong ones. There are few electronic toys I want to look at, and also a replacement rubber ducky.

I found the plan yesterday evening - she has highlighted nothing but clothing stalls AND Najad Yachts !

All advice and counselling gratefully received!

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Hope she likes Guiness - top left of North Hall!

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Please excuse my ignorance but what does SWMBO stand for ....Sailing Wife M? B? O? ???

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You could explain that due to the passage plan, approaching clothing stalls would mean plugging a foul wind and tide.

As far as the Najad yachts are concerned, this is more difficult. My SWMBO always makes for these and the Hallberg Rassys. How about explaning that in fact the Najad is locked in and the tidal window means that you won't be able to make it until after your ETD from the show.

Alternatively, give in to all her demands and earn vast amounts of brownie points that can be spent throughtout the rest of the year - perhaps going for that weekend sail early in the year when it's still frosty.

Not much help I know but then SWMBOs can always pose a problem - bless 'em.

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We've been and I've survived to tell the tale.

Managed to escape with the cost of a couple of nice sailing shirts, and a couple of new melamine serving dishes! In the meantime, got consent to order a new inflatable - got a good price on a Zodiac - and got to look at all the electronic navigation toys etc.

Generally though that the venue offered more room to move, got in the door very efficiently, but well ripped off for a crap lunch.

Not a lot of yachts to look at, if you don't want a BenJenBav, so if I was a first timer (eg looking for a 21 footer), I'd be disappointed in the show, I think. As for the Najad, they only had a 'brochure stand' and no actual boats, and the queue for HR's wasn't worth the wait. IF we win the lottery tonight, we'll go back on Monday, after submitting resignation letters !!

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I'm cadging a life from Jools of Top Cat tomorrow and taking my crew from a charter last year. I'm not saying these guys overdramatise, but they've managed to re-package taking in a reef on a Sigma 33 into an epic to rival "The Perfect Storm". What should I not miss? Dufour 40 and Clipper Ventures are already on my list.

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If she wants to buy you a late Christmas present why carp??

Alternatively enthuse about Malo yachts and by the time she's looked all round the show and found out they only exhibit at Southampton show you could have seen all you want and be ready to go and have another guinness before going home!

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your right, i went on saturday with family, looking for our first yacht, budget suits a 26 ish and the only two we could see were the MG (which is a brilliant use of space) and the ronautica.

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our diinghy not popular with swmbo ever since she let the dinghy 'go' whilst moored at itchenor and got wet bum whilst in it (every time, she says) so i'm beginning to fear a visit to a dinghy stand whereupon she might say "look, its got a solid base", whereas a visit to a sailmaker with me wittering "look, centre of effort is quite a lot further forward" would elicit no expressions of enthusiasm from her ... the sail is needed more urgently than the dinghy, imho

the answer is to find sailmaker who'll fling a dinghy in with purchase of new sail or dinghy maker who'll fling sails in ... as that's impossible (is it?) may also leave libs clutching dinghy ....

i am practicing the following arguments:
a) SPEED
well, with decent sail, get there quicker/before closing time/before harbour taxi goes home
b)LIE
"somebody sells a conversion kit for dinghies somewhere here"
c)BIG LIE
"dinghy's are dropping in price because of iraq/afghanistan/brighton/US$ and will be half the price next year"

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Ummm, tricky one.

If she might like one with a 'solid base' (ie a RIB), you would need to fit davits which "are very expensive darling, and would detract from the boat's high performance" /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif.

I must admit that one of our reasons for buying, was to get an inflatable floor, to reduce the stress in using the dinghy at all. She was very impressed, but we looked like a right pair of clowns sitting in the dinghy in the middle of Excel. (At least we were only sitting, and not practising anything else !!!)

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Getting SWMBO aboard

Trouble is that these women of ample proportions do need larger than average craft. Have you thought of some sort of derrick system perhas utilising the boom as a SWMBO embarkation system?

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Re: Getting SWMBO aboard

ample? ye'll get yer ears boxed sonny ...... ye wee sculpit scunner!

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