Whoa...time to slow down?

Re: tell us about the boat

Nothing would make me happier (well not much anyway) to have a nice big boat with heating..sofa...showers...hot water...but i simply cannot afford it.
A friend of mine has a 24ft motor boat...he's got most of the modern comforts of life..shower..hot water..heating...but at a price. He has a petrol V8 and it drinks...10 galls an hour.

I agree that motorboats have much more comfort but tell me where you can get a motorboat that sleeps 6 adults and is ok to live on for 2weeks and can go to france for under 40k..oh and has diesels....let me guess you can't.

It's all about money...just that and nothing else.
 
Re: agreed a bit but..

Even way way above 40k al the way to 50+ feet, the interiors of saily boats are grim dark wood the floors in the bedrooms are hard wood not comfy carpet, the showers are flimsy useless (one thins fline, princesss etc all sorted is the bogs so swmbo says ok)
 
Re: Shoe shopping is vitally important

I get the opposite...she goes shopping for a new top...comes home with a pair of shoes and new jeans for me.
She goes shopping for boots..comes home with new boat wellies..very nice.

When she finally gets somethign she likes..gets home...looks at it some more...doesn't like it.

If too small it goes into the i will slim into it draw.
If too big it goes into the draw for next year.

Then the next moring what do i get...' i've got nothign to wear and it's all your fault'...what's wrong with them being naked..that would sort out lots of problems..!
 
Re: Rag and Sticks man

Just the one HR...i thought that people on this forum would settle for nothing but a swan...
 
Re: agreed a bit but..

This may be true but lets face it....on a large motorboat when do you ever use the loo or shower on the move....never i would say...on a yacht you have to use them all the time on the move..it the yacht is used fully.

But as they say it's not what you got it's what you do with it that counts..?

My boat is small..messy...but i use it a lot. Unlike all the gleaming white glass things that fill up MDL pockets. I know of a least 4 boats that have never left the solent and the owners only spend the weekend in the marina...

At least i get out on my boat.
 
Re: powerboats on the move

You knidly gave expl of saily boats to me, sso here bit of info re powerboat on the move. Not quite sure why a sailboat wd use loos "all the time" and powerboats "hardly ever" - presum u mean that powerboats fast so neeed bog less ? agrred but..We often use the loo on the move on powerboat. And, since it's nice, use it instead of schlepping over to the marina often manky showers and loos, and anyway you're awake then. Seems loads of saily yachts invariably use the marina showers regardless of how cold they are.

Oh and agree re solentity. Indeed there are several large powerboats that have not actually left port solent marina in 3 years, they say, worth asking them at boat show, they have a nice puter that tellsem excatly how many have been in/out thru lock.
 
Re: powerboats on the move

I've got nothing against power boats at all but i dno't like the class system that is on the water.

In sailing we have a class system that basicly goes on the size of boat and ensign.
power Boats seem to have it only on baot size. My boats is 26ft and o yes i do actually get looked down at by people on MB's. Maybe i'm wrong about this but i get the feeling that i am beign looked down upoon by them because they think i am of lower status.

I do want to say that i am not painting you all with the same brush as i've seen it the other way.
I have spent a lot of time on a sea ray 240 and yes i notice how yachties won't talk to me. So it works both ways.

I just wish that we could all get along in a big happy family and i could have some of you money so i can get a nice big power boat..please..XX
 
Re: happy families

Fraid there are horrid people all over. Even amongst power boats, on rallies and in clubs which are really supposed to be a happy family, some are all snooty and nasty. on hol once I was all nice and picey, helped one guy fix boat a bit, his wife all snooty as tho I am the lacky and lowest of low. So invited him to our boat, and she all jawdroppy as found him on boat twice the size of hers. But then she was ok, which er sort of isn't okay, cos she obv a snob. If i find peeps gawping at boat, i often invitem on and have made some new friends that way.

Agreed re ensigns. In powerboats i asked one boat what his ensign meant, and he said that it was the only one thay had in the shop. Well, erm very nice and much smarter in blue...
 
Re: happy families

On that we fully agree. Now there is a nice first for me.

On my boat i will chat to anybody and everybody..it drives the G/F mad.
I have found that the rude bench all fall into two types.

Either older with money and a nice newish boat or younger with money and a mouth to go with it.
 
Re: happy families

Matts & Mike Have to agree I do the same thing, have slight advantage depending on which boat I am in. When in rags & stick thing and have probs with MBs then invite them on MB and vise versa. There should be no difference but there is. It's a bit like men and women, oh dear have I started something with that comment???????
 
Re: happy families

Don't worry i don't think Pauline B is around..you might be safe
 
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