What's your least Favorite bit of boating?

[tinkicker0]

carrying on from the what's your favorite bit of boating thread, what frustrates the heck out of you, try as you might it never goes quite right or there's just some element of getting on the water that makes you cringe.

maybe those with similar frustrations have found a way aournd whatever it is that cause you angst, so hopefully, this thread will end up being quite helpful for some

Already done one of mine in the other thread... holding the boat in position.. My other one is preparing the boat for launch and putting her back to bed after a run out, not difficult but simply a pain that gets in the way of having fun + it tends to cut trips short due to the time taken and having to watch tidal windows launching and recovering from a tidal slipway.... sorting that by moving the boat off a trailer arrangement and in to a marina this coming year.

what's yours?

p.s. perleeeeeeease, no mobo v raggy banter... that includes you Mr Rush/Daka lols

winter maintenance

 

[STEVEDUNSTABLE]

winter maintenance

hi TK......you are soooooooo right !!!!!................im in the middle of changing the leg bellows on my vp duoprop.....the tools are colder than "solid" mercury, the leg is MUCH heavyer when your cold !!!!.......AND im trying to make a video of the job to put on the Thanks Mum website... yes you are right, I AM ble*ding balmy !!!!!!!!!

 

[bluejasper2]

winter maintenance

mines all done

 

[Searush]

Blowing up the dinghy, launching it, getting too much stuff into it, and rowing or motoring out to the boat, all the problems of getting on board plus all the stuff. And all this has to be done before you can start to consider actually going sailing.

Then it all has to be done in reverse at the end of the day or trip.

Whilst I am relatively safe on board (usually single handed) it is the dinghy trips in windy conditions that are the problem - and the main danger.

Mike

FWIW, I found it best to row out to the boat with minimal kit & then bring it alongside somewhere where I can load all the gear (including the passengers & all their kit). So do you have a suitable load/ unload pont that you can get the gear to for easy loading.

 

[Seahope]

It has been a while now, but arriving at the boat and then realizing I have left the keys at home. After that it must be home berthing.

Next season it will be paranoia that something will go wrong with the boat now that I know how much virtually every part on the boat costs

 

[dmmbruce]

FWIW, I found it best to row out to the boat with minimal kit & then bring it alongside somewhere where I can load all the gear (including the passengers & all their kit). So do you have a suitable load/ unload pont that you can get the gear to for easy loading.

Thanks for the thought Searush, but not really. There is a small jetty, but it is hard to get to and there is even less water there than there is on my swing mooring. I am based at North Haven near the mouth of Poole harbour so things are congested as well as shallow. However the fetch is several miles down the length of the harbour (west winds) and this can make getting up the back of the cat very interesting. I don't have sugar scoops as she is an old Heavenly Twin. Hence the "worst part of sailing" type thoughts.

Cheers!

Mike

 

[Deefor]

Locks on the Thames - just when you're settling down and taking in the scenery, another bloody lock appears and more often than not in the summer, another queue.

2012 - Broads here we come, for a few weeks anyway .

 

[powerskipper]

Jules I thought it was quite an attractive Perfume,

that I would not mind.

 

[hlb]

Best bit, leaving a marina, knowing that the boat will perform perfectly and the crew knows exactly what to do. Leaving a harbour and setting course for some where new.

Next best bit is when the new port comes into view and glide effortlessly into the new berth or mooring.

Bad bits. They give you a mooring on a far to short pontoon, that you have to back into, to have a hope of getting onshore and it's nearly impossible to moor the boat adequately.

 

[gjgm]

Heavy rain.

 

[epervier]

Heavy rain.

It used to be the same for me, but now with a different type of boat I don't care

 

[whisper]

"heavy rain"

You're obviously now at an age when you should have a nice, warm and DRY wheelhouse!!

 

[peterb]

Clearing out the heads after someone else (no confession!) has blocked it. A job that always seems to fall on the skipper. Get's particularly bad when the joker valve has inverted and released the contents of the holding tank!

 

[epervier]

You're obviously now at an age when you should have a nice, warm and DRY wheelhouse!!

I am of that age!

and I won't be thanked for this, but swmbo started getting her pension in November, Never occurred to me that I'd be sleeping with a person of state pension age

 

[whisper]

Least enjoyable things

The worst thing for me is hearing, when single handing and well offshore, a strange noise or smelling a new smell. Now how far out will the AA come?!!

 

[maverickofpoole]

I use my boat mainly for fishing which is great however the big problem for me is having yes having to get up at silly o'clock which the eldest boy insists on On the plus side he does make a mean coffee and always provides the danish pastries

Martin

 

[rafiki_]

Worst bit for me is arriving on board, only to find something doesn't work!

This year we have had the fridge, microwave and horns go wrong. Doesn't sound like much now, but was frustrating at the time.

 

[prv]

Putting the sail covers on. Not in the metaphorical sense of "sad to see the end of a trip", but literally the task of buttoning the covers over the main and mizzen really annoys me. Dunno why, it's not particularly difficult.

If I take anyone else sailing, I usually find another job to do and ask them to "just pop the covers on while I do this".

Pete

 

[kashurst]

polishing the hull, you spend days getting it shiny then a few months later it needs doing again - just like gardening.

 

[DougH]

polishing the hull, you spend days getting it shiny then a few months later it needs doing again - just like gardening.

Suggest you use 'A' Glaze.

Apply and forget for 12 months.

Great product.