What type of people have boats?

[flaming]

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?

Not really... Most of the people I sail with are very much into their Rugby.

 

[Poignard]

To have a hobby (any hobby) means you are time rich.
The call of the sea (or ditch) is quite primordial. Even if you are a caravaner odds are you tow your box to the seaside

 

[oldgit]

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Aha.................. the latest (motorboat) from the Sunseeker " Ekononmy range" perchance !

 

[Frogmogman]

Aha.................. the latest (motorboat) from the Sunseeker " Ekononmy range" perchance !

….or as the tabloid press would call it,“Luxury yacht”

 

[Blueboatman]

….or as the tabloid press would call it,“Luxury yacht”

90% sun terrace and lakeside views, 10% movement . Quite sensible really . And it’s a bilgekeeler ?

 

[Caraway]

I have been suckered into reading an old thread again?

 

[V1701]

I wouldn't be able to afford a boat unless I lived on it so that's what I've done for the last 11 years. And I wouldn't want to have the sort of job that would give me the income to have a house to live in and a boat to play on...

 

[Beneteau381]

I seem to recall the RYA saying that boating of various guises is the most popular participatory sport across the UK when you take into account anglers, Kayacks, canal boats. So the question is possibly difficult to answer as there are so many guises of boating.

But I would like to propose that we all have one thing in common (yes raggies and stinkpotters together) ... we have all got disposable income to spend in a potentially expensive hobby. Which in turns means that in the main we are successful in life. From that I infer that boaters even canal boaters (I was going to say stinkpootters* but on second thoughts I think it is safer to take the Mik out of canal boaters as there are very few here) are reasonably capable and intelligent.

Would folks in the spirit of the Lounge disagree?

* I hope one is still allowed to have a jest with friends

Also noticable that we like motorbikes, light aircraft, old cars, funny weird cars (phil) and thungs like that

 

[Stemar]

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I've got one of those, only it was sold to me as a Catalac 8M