What annoys you about your boat?

[Athene V30]

I have been living and cruising in this boat for almost 4 weeks now. Previously it was just one or two nights so nothing had a chance to 'get on my wick'.

I can put up with the odd leak I still have where I haven't found the source, I know the forehatch is like a sieve but I have a plan and a temporary solution in use, I know I don't have standing headroom etc but these are minor when compared to the WIRES IN THE BL**DY MAST!!!mad:

The slightest movement in an otherwise peaceful anchorage and BANG BANG they go back and forward. I have tried pulling them tight, pushing them slack nothing seems to work. SO next winter the mast is coming down again and I am going to fill it with expanding foam.

 

[pyrojames]

The rust spots that keep appearing through my topsides paint only weeks after repainting! Arrgh!

 

[CPD]

....... the mast is coming down again and I am going to fill it with expanding foam.

Hi Peter, glad the trip os going well (apart from the claning wires). Pipedream had expandeing foam squirted up the mast presumably to prevent this same problem. I personally would STRONGLY advise against this. trying to even replace the wires, let alone feed new ones was a complete and utter pig.

A neat trick I have heard of but never done, is to attach cable ties to the wiring at regular lenghts to provide some "damping" i guess could be a good word.

Anyway, to get to your question .........

The one thing that does niggle a little ------- is the reach to the coach roof clutches. Apart from that she makes me smile non-stop

 

[xyachtdave]

The cost.

 

[Saguday]

My main gripe has been that she's three and a half thousand miles away, but hopefully that problem will be fixed shortly

 

[FullCircle]

The little leak from the stern gland. The rusting keel bolts.
The RFI from the Netbook to the GPS signal.
The fact that a Yeoman won't fit on the chart table.
The lack of a footblock in the cockpit.
The lack of a proper helmsman seat.
That bloody genoa.

Nothing else. At all.

 

[jimmynoboat]

As Kioni said roughly . . . only the fact that she's 230 miles away! Like most boats she needs a few things looking at but nothing anoys me.

 

[Saguday]

Funny that, when I eventually get her on the right side of the ocean she'll still be 230 miles away but relatively speaking that will be highly accessible

 

[TamarMike]

Washboards .... will I ever get round to replacing them with proper companionway doors?

 

[millbeach]

As soon as i get one job done, another one turns up.
My tub was going great, then my yanmar starts to drip water,
I feel like my boat hates me some times.
Plus the cost.

 

[tillergirl]

After 19 years - nothing annoys me. But....

I wish she would point higher!

 

[PaulGooch]

Only thing that annoys me a bit is the fact she will not steer at slow speed going astern. But that's not a fault, it's just how this type of boat works.

I do wish they'd have fitted midshps cleats when it was built.

 

[Jomo]

The cost.

Yep, that's about it at the moment.

 

[leomagill]

The 150Hp missing from each engine, I thought stinkies were meant to be fast...
But on a positive note the fuel bill would annoy me even more if it did have the extra power.

 

[Cantata]

The one thing that REALLY gets my goat is the fact that I spend a lot of time and effort (quite enjoyably I suppose) and money (less so) getting the boat and systems up to top notch, and then the bl**dy weather goes down the drain just when we've freed up the time to get away. As happened this morning. Looked out of the window at 0600, looked at the forecast, said "no thanks" and went back to bed.

 

[tillergirl]

You were lucky Dick. I waited up for the cat to come in until 2am. Gave up, when to be, got up at 5am to let her in to find that SWMBO had let her in earlier, then got up at 6am, looked at the weather and said s*d it.

Now tell me if I'm wrong. If the cat cost £128.32 this week, surely £379.53 on Tiller Girl isn't extra spendthrift, is it?

 

[nigelm]

nothing annoys me about my boat ,

not the fact that i've just spent 2 whole days scraping back 20 or yrs of antifoul , nor that i have still got to get the deck fixed @ £3.4k and new rigging @ £1.2k not even that i may not get much if any sailing in this year .

i enjoy being on my boat , i enjoy working on my boat .

i wont moan about the cost because if you cant afford it then you shouldnt have bought it is my motto .

what annoys me is people moaning about the odd little leak - its a boat !
fix it and get on with using it .

i have to listen to enough moans and groans at home thank you very much .

 

[rudolph_hart]

A neat trick I have heard of but never done, is to attach cable ties to the wiring at regular lenghts to provide some "damping" i guess could be a good word.

Can vouch for the fact that it DOES work. After picking up the tip on the PBO forumD, I did mine while the mast was down 2 years ago. Took a while and used a fair few cable ties, though (17m mast).

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

2nd vote against expanding foam... use cable ties as described, or even get a bit of conduit in the mast... expanding foam is a nightmare.... eventually it starts to break down, and makes a right mess... and more importantly, condemns you to making any rewiring job, or replacement of running rigging job into a long painful nightmare task...

 

[Wunja]

3rd vote for cable ties. Put them in groups of three pointing out at 120 degrees.

Annoyances for my boat?
1. It doesn't get used enough
2. Lots of weather helm (new rudder please!)