What do you have aboard to amuse yourself whilst at anchor?

Zen Zero said:
Usually! Shooting at them seems far more effective than waiting for them to bite! The thing is though, when you can see them, and watch them, it seems horrible to kill them! And when you eat them you make sure you waste as little as possible, out of respect.
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'Waiting for them to bite'. I met one in Terceira in the Azores. I asked it very politely to stop chewing the bung in my dink. It refused so I pushed it away. The second time it bit my finger. Barsteward didn't even taste nice.
Beware the Azorian Pig Fish. True story.
 
Seems you keep a supply of naked ladies to admire??.

Nostrodamus said:
Three weeks in a free marina in Spain, barbecue on the beach, friends of various nationalities, boat next door where the woman swims and showers naked each morning and three beers for a euro... is it worth it..let me think!
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The maestro is back!!,!,!!

Welcome home Nostro we have missed you..........
 
Thank you Tomahawk but this cruising life and being without shore power for the last month is really getting to me.

Yes it is good to see a beautiful woman naked in the morning but I have found something far better to look at. I just get such an enormous amount of pleasure looking at the figure.

Yes, 36D holds an passing fascination but not half as much as figures over 12.2.

I am captured by my battery monitor. Watching the figures go up with the new sun as the solar panels kick in each day.

I am sorry but you can keep your "playboys" and "penthouse". I am going to bring out a magazine showing pictures of battery monitors and as the centre spread I am going to show the digital display showing fully charged batteries..

Now where's the bathroom....
 
Nice to know solar panels can beat wind generators, I'm sat in Brittany listening to buzzing dump capacitors effectively telling me that I could turn the fridge back on but it really isn't warm enough to bother.

Frankie-H said:
Not allowed to lash them now:eek: Just a little gentle coercion. :D
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If asked I will inform the Gendarmes that lashing small boys on British flagged vessels is traditional, and therefore compulsory.

Although it's probably interdit in France anyway, which as far as I can tell means it's something you're not allowed to do unless you really want to.
 
I start off going over my next day passage plan then by the time Ive cooked eaten and cleared up from dinner I will have a glass of wine and spend till dark reading or knitting, then when dark I get on my iphone to catch up with the YBW forums, the rest of the night I spend jumping up regularly from my sleep, sticking my head out of the forehatch to check I am still in the same position.
 
GrahamM376 said:
I've cured this problem with a latching relay and 90db sounder on the anchor drag alarm. Even I can't sleep through that!
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Is it easy to fit one of these and can it also poor a bucket of iced water over you and poke you in the eye with a sharp stick. A cup of tea would be good as well at the same time.

Really, are they easy to fit?
 
GrahamM376 said:
I've cured this problem with a latching relay and 90db sounder on the anchor drag alarm. Even I can't sleep through that!
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My iphone anchor drag app goes off constantly so is no good, and leaving my instruments on all night to see if Ive changed position is too demanding on the battery, not to mention having to go out into the cockpit to check it.

Ive wondered about trying my sat nav on board, for the GPS or getting a handheld GPS unit that I can take to bed with me. Its not waking up I fear, its not getting any sleep
 
Chrissie said:
My iphone anchor drag app goes off constantly so is no good, and leaving my instruments on all night to see if Ive changed position is too demanding on the battery, not to mention having to go out into the cockpit to check it.

Ive wondered about trying my sat nav on board, for the GPS or getting a handheld GPS unit that I can take to bed with me. Its not waking up I fear, its not getting any sleep
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We've bought a handheld GPS just for the anchor alarm facility. It stays in our cabin and is always set when we're anchored. The power draw is minimal and the alarm does wake us!
 
Nostrodamus said:
Really, are they easy to fit?
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If your GPS has an output for an external alarm then yes. Our Furuno doesn't but the Garmin has. Putting a sounder on the external wire just gives a louder bleep but with £5 - £10 of bits, you can make up a latching alarm which sounds constantly until you get out of the pit to press the cancel button. Plenty of wiring diagrams if you Google.

I always have the alarm ready to set and, as soon as the anchor hits the bottom, SWMBO dives down and sets it. With 30m of chain out + 12m of boat, I generally set it for 0.03 NM and we rarely get false alarms. Not so necessary now we have binned the CQR in favour of a Manson.
 
well I spent an interesting couple of hours on Sunday dismantling our Jabsco and rebuilding it with a €50 (!) refurbishing kit. There were bits left over and water now leaks out of the head of the pump (which it didn't before). I think I'll ask about this in the PBO section.
 
Zen Zero said:
well I spent an interesting couple of hours on Sunday dismantling our Jabsco and rebuilding it with a €50 (!) refurbishing kit. There were bits left over and water now leaks out of the head of the pump (which it didn't before). I think I'll ask about this in the PBO section.
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snap! That's this afternoons job on the aft heads, I think muriatic acid has bu**ered the joker valve, getting backflow. 2 weeks ago, had to replace the outlet pipe on fwd heads, that was real fun!
 
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