Unashamedly purlioned from SB. What do you NOT want on your boat ?

MartynG said:
I would never have guessed outdrives would be at the top of your list .
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B********er, thought was making a pretty good fist of hiding that...:)


,,,,,,,,side decks that mountain goats would have trouble negociating !
.... bollards carefully and artfully designed to make them virtually impossible to get a quick turn on and then thoughtfully located somewhere virtually impossible to get at in hurry. !
and what numbknuts sells any boat with no midships bollard ?
 
Exploding bread rolls
Exploding cakes
People that can't eat oily crisps without dropping them on the teak
Other people's children that use the heads for a No2 when the marina loos are within sprinting distance
Females in high heels
Females that empty the entire house into the boat for 1 night away
Leaking trim tabs that cause the boat to sink very slowly
Eight buckets of water beneath the engine bay liner caused by the above
Spiders
Wasps
(Bumble Bees welcome)
Cracks
Bird poo
A leaking freshwater system that floods the carpets
Dust
Mercruiser 7.3l V8 diesels
Diane Abbott
People who are glued to their phones
Corrosion
Anything that eats fibreglass

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Empty bottles (not sure where they all come from).
Spiders - more precisely those little spots they leave
Plastic teak
Teak affect carpet
Mother in Law
 
Can somebody explain slowly and carefully in simple language...
In the UK......the attractions of twee little table lamps on boats
In the "Med"......more mysteriously, boat interior lights left burning brightly when the owner is 2500 miles away in London/Ingolstadt or Birmingham .
 
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I think the table lamp is about trying to convince female partners at a boat show that somehow this "boat" thing is more like a house than is actually the case. The fantasy ends on the first trip upwind in an F5, when the lamps and vases are turned into a larger number of much smaller lamps and vases.
 
FlowerPower said:
I think the table lamp is about trying to convince female partners at a boat show that somehow this "boat" thing is more like a house than is actually the case. The fantasy ends on the first trip upwind in an F5, when the lamps and vases are turned into a larger number of much smaller lamps and vases.
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We do have a small table lamp of a modern style - not twee. It was not my idea but that of my chief officer who is female. I find it better not to object.
The lamp, among other things like the kettle, is stowed somewhere safe when preparing for sea.

The lamp came in handy as an inspection lamp the other week when my torch battery ran out of juice.
 
....To be near to yacht with flapping halyards in a stiff breeze
Anything that catches my toes on deck especially the pinkies.
Oily food over a teak deck
Underwater lights
 
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