VOTE: The arse end of owning a boat is...

[EdEssery]

...stripping anti-fouling.

I'm going to ache in places I didn't know I had tomorrow and I've got to go through it all again next weekend!

Ed

Skybird
MG C27

 

[snowleopard]

winter days in the boatyard...

when you'd rather be sailing.

unblocking the head

paying marina bills

when the engine won't start as you get to the harbour mouth.

waiting in dover for the westerly gales to stop.

when a windshift makes the last 100 miles of a passage a dead beat instead of the reach you were expecting.

clearing customs in antigua

need any more???

 

[bigmart]

Just remember, Its Theraputic.

Thats techno-Speak for "Bleedin Boring"

It'll all seem worth it in the summer. All one week of it.

Martin

 

[ean_p]

Re: winter days in the boatyard...

ahhh its a hard life when you think that clearing customs in antigua is the 'arse end of owning a boat'......would really love to feel your good days......

have loads more of 'em....
Ian p.

 

[snowleopard]

yeah

life is crap, then you die.

 

[yoda]

Re: winter days in the boatyard...

I found clearing customs in Antigua great fun, apple taxis took us to buy the beer and then we went back on board and drunk the beer until the customs arrived. Since customs officer and watertaxi driver were brothers all seemed quite reasonable to me!

Yoda

 

[Rabbie]

First and foremost is finding a genuinely REASONABLY priced place to keep the thing!. If you are on the South Coast -forget it!.

 

[EdEssery]

I accept paying high marina charges on the South Coast - it's a case of supply and demand and the benefit of being able to step off the boat and be on the motorway in minutes of coming alongside.

As a reasonably practical sort of person, what I don't accept is paying high per hour rates to have somebody do something on the boat that I could do myself. Generally I find I enjoy the maintenance and pottering but after 5.5 hours of scraping old anti-fouling, I think I may have found the line beyond which I don't want to go much further...

Still, the Summer's coming - let's hope it's a bit longer than a week.

Best wishes,

Ed (whose aches are beginning to diminish!)

 

[richardandtracy]

... Insurance.

First you build it.

Then the *** insurance company expects you to buy it from them as well.
Every year.


Regards

Richard