What DON'T you miss from backhome?

[Artic Warrior]

Isnt it Great to call back home in the depths of winter, to tell them about your swim round the boat before breakfast,
and that gorgeous bird in a bikini, drapped across the foredeck of the boat anchored nearby...

yep sure is....

 

[little_roundtop]

I don't miss......

...having to get up at a set time each day.

...doing what somebody else wants me to do.

...paying a mortgage.

...traffic jams on the M4.

...grey miserable winters.

...Tony Blair (or Gordon Brown for that matter).

...mowing the lawn.

...always living next door to the same people.

...breakfast tv.

...double-glazing salesmen (and women).

...feeling threatened walking home at night.

...the Royal Variety Performance.

...Eastenders (and Coronation Street).

...MOT tests.

...waiting a couple of weeks to see a doctor.

...crowds of people.

...junk mail.

...package holidays.

...elections (and the campaigning).

...cold seas.

...mushy peas.

...caravans.

and

...the shipping forecast.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Isnt it Great to call back home in the depths of winter, to tell them about your swim round the boat before breakfast,
and that gorgeous bird in a bikini, drapped across the foredeck of the boat anchored nearby...

And whats wrong with British women.
This one has even gone as far to have a bottom lift although I suspect she over did it a little.

 

[Mino]

* Noisy neighbours. At least in a yacht one can move.
* Moronic power mad bosses and co-workers from the same mould.
* Crowded towns/pavements, especially at the weekend.
* Customer service call centers where one can't understand a damn word they're saying, even if the office is in the UK. (O2 excels at this).
* Bland food.
* Negative attitude.
* Politicians.
* Ditto on the traffic, junk mail and cold callers.
*Living in a street where everyone seemed to own a yapping rat that was left outside, all day, every day. Especially fekin annoying when one works from home.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Thank you for your replies.
Intresting that the same things kept coming up which the main one seems to be pollution from noise of one kind or another.. neighbours,tarffic.
Seems we all want a quiet life and the chance to live it as we want to rather than how someone else ones us to live our lives.

 

[BrianH]

Thank you for your replies.
Intresting that the same things kept coming up which the main one seems to be pollution from noise of one kind or another.. neighbours,tarffic.
Seems we all want a quiet life and the chance to live it as we want to rather than how someone else ones us to live our lives.

You cannot always avoid noise when cruising - well, until being able to move on, which may not be instantly.

Open-air discos can be a problem in the summer. I've had a hard sail all day, relieved to find a safe anchorage then crashed out early to be blasted awake late evening by a throbbing bass beat ashore that goes on all night, so loud that it is impossible to sleep.

Then there's the anchored neighbour, a macho, all-male crew, out to prove their manhood by how much beer they can drink, telling tall tales about gales they survived, getting louder as the evening progresses and bellowing with laughter at every inane sentence anyone makes. These are usually Austrian and Germans on a 'Törn' to rack up sea miles to qualify for their 'Segelschein'.

Just as bad neighbours are the chartering families that have combined to get the largest yacht possible that they cannot properly handle and whose unruly children go wild with no one daring to tell them to stop shrieking and yelling for hours.

[/GOM mode]

 

[Nostrodamus]

You cannot always avoid noise when cruising - well, until being able to move on, which may not be instantly.

Open-air discos can be a problem in the summer. I've had a hard sail all day, relieved to find a safe anchorage then crashed out early to be blasted awake late evening by a throbbing bass beat ashore that goes on all night, so loud that it is impossible to sleep.

Then there's the anchored neighbour, a macho, all-male crew, out to prove their manhood by how much beer they can drink, telling tall tales about gales they survived, getting louder as the evening progresses and bellowing with laughter at every inane sentence anyone makes. These are usually Austrian and Germans on a 'Törn' to rack up sea miles to qualify for their 'Segelschein'.

Just as bad neighbours are the chartering families that have combined to get the largest yacht possible that they cannot properly handle and whose unruly children go wild with no one daring to tell them to stop shrieking and yelling for hours.

[/GOM mode]

You need some happy pills...

 

[BobnLesley]

Then it's not sufficiently annoying...

....until being able to move on, which may not be instantly...

We've re-anchored more than once at midnight+ because the neighbours were getting too rowdy; though my prefered solution is to join them: We've made several friends simply by rowing across to explain that they're disturbing us and could they either shut the feck up, or give me a beer; people usually plump for the second and we can generally get them to drop the volume level too, to the benefit of anyone elsewho was being disturbed; well, at least until my beer level gets up, by which time it'll be me that's being the noisiest!

I accept if you're in a marina/harbour for the night, then this may not be practical to move, but life's invariably a trade-off, if you want the convenience of tying up to a quay for the night, you must accept that you're unlikely to have a peaceful night - reason 23 for why we rarely do so.

 

[demonboy]

though my prefered solution is to join them: We've made several friends simply by rowing across to explain that they're disturbing us and could they either shut the feck up, or give me a beer; people usually plump for the second and we can generally get them to drop the volume level too, to the benefit of anyone elsewho was being disturbed

Great tactic. Clearly a boat with much experience!

 

[jonic]

Great tactic. Clearly a boat with much experience!

When I first started cruising I was told if you wanted a quite anchorage to myself it was a good idea to wander around naked on deck when other yachts came in. This would ensure they kept their distance........unless they were French yachts.....they would want to raft up.

 

[BrianH]

You need some happy pills...

Poor diagnosis, even worse prescription.

I am supremely happy when cruising, less so in a crowded anchorage and much less so in a marina. But even amidst inconsiderate neighbours and noisy environments I am still happy to be afloat in my own boat.

But don't stop analysing, you may get better.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Poor diagnosis, even worse prescription.


But don't stop analysing, you may get better.

I have no chance of getting better but please take a glourious sun rise in the morning in a very quiet anchorage followed by a bautiful sail, a wonderful wine, and a stunning sunset.works everytime my friend.

 

[chinita]

When I first started cruising I was told if you wanted a quite anchorage to myself it was a good idea to wander around naked on deck when other yachts came in. This would ensure they kept their distance........unless they were French yachts.....they would want to raft up.

Far easier to stick a Blue Ensign up.

Nobody will talk to you then.

 

[jonic]

Far easier to stick a Blue Ensign up.

Nobody will talk to you then.