What type of people have boats?

[Caraway]

There are a number of other explanations...
Did the lady in the Costa Coffee shop have big cups?
Did he have tea or coffee "in house" when somebody else made it?

I think he was too "right on" to be tempted by cup sizes.
Are you suggesting that he didn't accept my offer of coffee because I make crap coffee, or worse, he didn't like me?

 

[Bouba]

I worked at a magazine, 2 or 3 days a month for a few years quite recently. The graphic designer would rarely have a coffee or tea when I made one. He would nip next door(ish) and get a Costa in a paper cup for a couple of quid.
We even had a filter coffee machine in the office. But he would rather spend money on (crap) coffee than bring his own coffee.

I also worked in a lot of places where people left the office whenever possible. I never understood why

 

[Caraway]

These are illustrations of how many people can just be wrong.

 

[WoodyP]

There is a place for everyone no matter how strange they may be. ?

Hi Peter ?

 

[Sans Bateau]

I worked at a magazine, 2 or 3 days a month for a few years quite recently. The graphic designer would rarely have a coffee or tea when I made one. He would nip next door(ish) and get a Costa in a paper cup for a couple of quid.
We even had a filter coffee machine in the office. But he would rather spend money on (crap) coffee than bring his own coffee.

Ah! You missed the point, graphic designers are 'trendy' and have to be seen to be so, a Costa (other brands are available) with the lid still on being sipped at the desk is trendy. I have often wondered, but never asked, do they just sip the coffee even when its gone cold, or has he coffee already beed consumed and to remain trendy, they just go through the motions, Mmm, often wondered.

 

[LittleSister]

I worked at a magazine, 2 or 3 days a month for a few years quite recently. The graphic designer would rarely have a coffee or tea when I made one. He would nip next door(ish) and get a Costa in a paper cup for a couple of quid.
We even had a filter coffee machine in the office. But he would rather spend money on (crap) coffee than bring his own coffee.

There are a number of other explanations...

Perhaps whoever was serving in Costa was particularly good-looking?

Maybe even better looking than Lakey!

 

[LittleSister]

There is a place for everyone no matter how strange they may be. ?

Thank goodness for that.

 

[Capt Popeye]

Which points to my comment about boaters being reasonably intelligent?

Yea well, m aybe so maybe not; just read up on the choices of an Anchor or Colregs or Sailing vers Motor Wash boats if you want to see intelligent conversation ?

 

[PhillM]

I wonder if the link between success and boating is more to do with the level of skill needed to participate and consequences for getting it wrong?

Bar (pun intended) being in the wrong pub at the wrong time, watching sport in a stadium is nowadays pretty safe. Going to sea at the wrong time, in the wrong weather, etc. has slightly more death potential.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

You see a lot of sailors in charity shops .

No inside but outside begging.

 

[Adios]

Miwlian'aires

 

[Momac]

Boating is a complete distraction / antidote to the stresses of everyday work and life . It isn't just a hobby it's more like an addiction.

 

[Adios]

Boating is a complete distraction / antidote to the stresses of everyday work and life . It isn't just a hobby it's more like an addiction.

That's how I felt until I bought the wrong boat in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then for a while boating was like a millstone around my neck. I'm cured now thankfully and its back to the above

 

[Stemar]

Boating is a complete distraction / antidote to the stresses of everyday work and life . It isn't just a hobby it's more like an addiction.

True

I've long joked (at least, I hope it's a joke) that I don't have a sailing hobby, I have a sailing habit. It's a bit like a cocaine habit with the lost weekends, getting cold and damp, and waking up in strange places, just more expensive.

 

[Daydream believer]

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[Daydream believer]

I seem to recall the RYA saying that boating of various guises is the most popular participatory sport across the UK

Aparently fishing is the largest participant sport in the Uk I am not sure that it is overtaken by boating, if one takes in to account the fact some fishing is done from a boat, due to the large No. of coarse & beach anglers.

 

[dom]

That's how I felt until I bought the wrong boat in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then for a while boating was like a millstone around my neck. I'm cured now thankfully and its back to the above

I did think you looked a tad uncomfortable in the last pic we have of you

 

[Caraway]

Aparently fishing is the largest participant sport in the Uk I am not sure that it is overtaken by boating, if one takes in to account the fact some fishing is done from a boat, due to the large No. of coarse & beach anglers.

I have come across some coarse anglers when passing by in my boat.

 

[laika]

Which in turns means that in the main we are successful in life. From that I infer that boaters even canal boaters [...] are reasonably capable and intelligent.

Would folks in the spirit of the Lounge disagree?

Not everyone equates "successful in life" with "in possession of copious financial wealth" and plenty of people become wealthy because they have no qualms about exploiting others and don't pay half their income to the tax man as they should. I'm sure we all know fellow boaters who wield big wads of £20 notes that HMRC probably don't know about yet you suspect that they may be a little way off qualifying for mensa membership. A review of some of the posts on this forum should disabuse anyone of the notion that the average boater has an A at GCSE english language (or school certificate or whatever qualification is age-relevant for this forum).

I've commented before that the assumption that everyone here shares the same lifestyle is common yet absurd. Often folk don't realise that others might not own a house or a car. I'm consistently encountering the assumption that one's boat represents N-M% of a person's total wealth because that's the percentage relevant to the person making the assumption and their narrow range of friends. I know some very smart people, some of whom are posters here, who work as necessary to maintain an itinerant boating lifestyle: their bank balance is probably not what they measure their "wealth" in terms of.

So I disagree with homogeneity thing. For some perhaps sailing is an add-on for the time and cash rich. For others it's a core part of their life that they move everything around to maintain. And everything else in between

 

[Thresher]

I've never overheard a conversation about sport in the sailing club and everyone I know who is big into their sport has no interest in boating. It's a small sample but do you think there is something to it?