You know you've sailing when.....

[snooks]

You know you've been sailing when.....

I know I've been sailing when I've put my hand in my pocket for loose change and tried to pay for my lunch with 2 penny washers and an M6 bolt...

 

[greggron]

You can stand up for a pee and be 100% on target on the train crossing a junction without needing to hold on.

 

[Seajet]

When one knows the tide times down to a minute,

has sunburn

has a floating sensation in bed on land

and knows the radio schedules off by heart but hasn't a clue what's on TV !

 

[flaming]

I know I've been sailing when I've put my hand in my pocket for loose change and tried to pay for my lunch with 2 penny washers and an M6 bolt...

You try and apply the mark room rules at a roundabout.

On the way home you have this vague sense that the dashboard on your car isn't giving you all the information you want - before realizing you were looking for TWS.

You walk into town to get dinner and get stopped by the police for carrying an offensive weapon - the leatherman on your belt. Thankfully he believed my story.

I'm guilty of all three of those.

 

[Twister_Ken]

You know you've been sailing when you wake up because the dishwasher has stopped, thinking "Damn, the engine has broken down."

 

[AndrewfromFal]

You feel that the person driving the car you are in is going a bit too fast, so you turn to ease the mainsheet.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

You sleep better

 

[Triassic]

You walk into town to get dinner and get stopped by the police for carrying an offensive weapon - the leatherman on your belt. Thankfully he believed my story.
.

Did that myself last week in Baltimore. Having been told it's against the law in Ireland to row ashore in your dinghy without a lifejacket I thought I'd be a good boy and follow the rules. I'm on my third pint of Guinness before someone points out I'm standing at the bar with a 6" knife on the webbing.......

 

[jimi]

You are covered in bruises of unknown origin

 

[jac]

FRay bentos seem appealing

 

[prv]

You feel that the person driving the car you are in is going a bit too fast, so you turn to ease the mainsheet.

You look at what the wind's doing, and for something to judge the tide against, before pulling out of a parking space

Pete

 

[Poignard]

When someone's walking straight towards you, you turn to the right muttering "port to port".

 

[Serin]

You certainly know you've been antifouling when you attend a performance at the Royal Opera House with the wretched stuff in your hair.......

 

[Deleted member 36384]

You wake up in bed and see trees swaying outside the bedroom window and announce, "the anchor's dragging!"

On another occasion I had come back from a long sail (I was working with a charter company) and my girlfriend at the time came over to my flat. I was fast asleep but talking in my sleep checking off inventory items on the yacht.

 

[oldbilbo]

.....when, at home, you drag the pillows off your bed into the corner of the bedroom and curl up on 'em.

 

[flyingscampi]

You've added five items to the maintenance list for your MAB.

 

[PhillM]

You look like Casper the friendly ghost (factor 50)

 

[Scomber]

-when-you haven't been in the car for weeks and weeks -and haven't missed it once
also-substitute the word 'house' for 'car'

 

[michael_w]

Travel by car seems dangerously fast.

 

[SimonFa]

You are covered in bruises of unknown origin

+1

And I've got a gouge on my forearm and I've no idea how I got it.