What do people do on their cruisers?

[Dino]

SUPing or stand up paddle boarding is my latest interest apart from drinking, eating, exploring, boat and people watching, swimming, listening to music and reading the odd book.
Bit of maintenance also, spent last Saturday morning scrubbing the hull. There are always jobs to do

 

[ST840]

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We have travel monopoly. The trouble is it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on……….

 

[hullabaloo]

need a shave and a diet

this is bruce looking his best,
mind, you should see his cronie, ss.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

@BruceK you have a PM

 

[Seastoke]

this is bruce looking his best,
mind, you should see his cronie, ss.

At least we have a face to show , not hide behind a screen.

 

[Kawasaki]

 

[Kawasaki]

First boat
1984
Big learning curve
Went all over the isle of Anglesey in Her
Isle of Man
Wife was petrified
Kids just went with it
Had N Clue what is was doing
Feck all has changed really!
?

 

[Bouba]

To be fair that was about day 14 of the trip,

So it’s scurvy ?

 

[Bouba]

What do people do? Chase the weather, is the answer. Every waking minute is devoted to checking the forecast, in fact several of them. You find that window of perfect weather predicted for next week. And you make plans, and then follow that window as it gets closer and slowly shrinks. Until it’s replaced by howling gales. You cancel all your plans, make alternative arrangements, then you wake up to perfect conditions. The rest of the time is maintenance, you fret about the condition of the hull as it sits day after day until it can barely move with its beard of weed. And you dream of the Mediterranean.
Of course in the Med we are doing exactly the same thing.
But, on those rare occasions when the stars align it’s the best hobby ever??

 

[Anthony]

In no particular order, cleaning, polishing, scrubbing, painting, varnishing, fixing things, bbq, more bbq, diving, swimming, walking, drinking, eating, sleeping , reading and writing nonsense on forums.

I'd add:
-unblocking the toilet system
-diving (on the boat to clean it)
- worrying about the weather and how that small good window you had is now disappearing
-getting upset at the kids for 'being bored' and reminding them how grateful they should be to have a childhood like this (especially when I have just unblocked the toilet because they don't listen)

Ok, the last one might just be me...
Ants

 

[Bouba]

What do we do.......
We don’t go out unless the morning looks like this...


We search for that quiet anchorage


that’s better...


We then go on seagull watch




If it’s calm we might go for a paddle


Go ashore if there are no people


Or go visiting others if we are feeling sociable


We endlessly check our anchor


And watch others messing about in their boats


We chase squirrels


and search for that secret bay...


Visit other ports




And remember to take lots of naps

 

[Jamie Dundee]

Another vote for fishing. As the owner of a ‘peche promenade’ it would be rude not to. During the winter working on the boat is my way of staying sane during the short dark days ?

 

[BruceK]

-getting upset at the kids for 'being bored' and reminding them how grateful they should be to have a childhood like this (especially when I have just unblocked the toilet because they don't listen)

Oh I hear you on that score brother. And then the only way to pacify them is let them bring a friend each. Soon your boat looks like a travelling circus cross council dump so you abandon it and seek refuge on a neighbours boat or best of all tell the kids the neighbours have sweets and cake and all they have to do is swim over and ask. Unfortunately my current cruising companions are getting wise to this subterfuge.

 

[kashurst]

We go out and about, explore new places, find little bays, find a quiet spot away from others




and............
Later may be some swimming, drinking etc. Hopefully keeping any fixing until the winter.

 

[LBRodders]

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Is that the worlds smallest fender or are you all giants and that boat is 60ft?

 

[Never Grumble]

-getting upset at the kids for 'being bored' and reminding them how grateful they should be to have a childhood like this

They don't know how lucky there are ... I have one like this.

 

[BruceK]

Is that the worlds smallest fender or are you all giants and that boat is 60ft?

Now you know why he went around for years looking for some front teeth. That was all that stood before him and the swellie rocks

 

[PlanB]

Just a word of caution of anchoring overnight - some people find that mobo hull shapes lead to an uncomfortable level of movement,

 

[Bigplumbs]

I like flying my drones and having a play with small rc boats

 

[Alicatt]

Scuba diving, finding interesting underwater places and then take friends to see them.
There are lots around the Caithness coast, quite a lot of caves, windows, and tunnels through the rocks, just south of Wick there is an island that is hollow, very difficult to access from the land as you have to climb down a steep slope and cliff and then swim to the island, but with a small boat you can go through the tunnel, the water is a good 10m deep, I've swam through it, dived to the bottom and taken my dory through it, great fun. There are large caves in the cliffs, big enough to get a boat in, some are camouflaged by waterfalls over the entrances.

Arrow to the top left was where I used to live, and the other arrow points to the island with the tunnel through it, there are many, many shipwrecks around the coast here and not all are marked on the charts, and even then some are in the wrong location, I got one removed from the chart as there is/was nothing at that location and the wreck that was referenced, the U81 German submarine, is actually in the Mediterranean when it should have been referencing the V81, a WW1 German destroyer which was about 6 miles north of where they had placed it on the chart.
There are also a lot of old vehicles scattered on the seabed just north of the righthand arrow, a lot were dumped there after WW2.