You're Not a Real Boater ...

[rickp]

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You're Not a Real Boater until you've set off from another forumite's boat at 3am in the tender in Newtown Creek, only to realise you didn't leave any lights on and you can't find your own boat.

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Ah, yes, umm, I remember that night. I think.....

 

[Richard Shead]

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You launched a boat with a Renault 4?

 

[Coupe]

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You launched a boat with a Renault 4?

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Nope - please read the thread again.

He launched a Renault 4 with a boat /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Resolution]

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Until you have deserted sailing yachts to buy your first powerboat and

on your first outing, having successfully reversed truck & trailer into the water, transferred into boat leaving mate with truck, and

enjoyed the sounds of highly tuned V8 engine firing up for the first time and

engaged reverse gear

but


omitted to check in which direction the funny steering wheel (not a tiller!) was pointing.

We reversed very smartly out and round in a circle, and back up the slipway spitting concrete and s/s propellor blades inall directions!

Worse still, I was a Pom in Aussie territory.....

 

[Hurricane]

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You're Not a Real Boater until...

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You've been to a Wokingham meeting and found that all these stories are True

 

[gjgm]

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wondered why the anchor wont set, only to find no anchor at the end of your chain

 

[trying]

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Reading these posts clearly I am not trying hard enough /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[zt260]

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Watched a guy in our marina 2 yrs ago on his first trip to his mooring after just having his boat dropped in after winter,to find that he had put the left prop on the right leg and vica versa,it was quite interesting watching him engage forward only to find everything was the opposite wayround.

 

[alt]

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You're not a real boater until...

... Your girlfriend actually offers and enjoys to go out in the rain to lower the fenders and get the mooring lines ready

 

[Blackfeather]

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... Your girlfriend actually offers and enjoys to go out in the rain to lower the fenders and get the mooring lines ready

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You're not living in the real world matey.

 

[alt]

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... Your girlfriend actually offers and enjoys to go out in the rain to lower the fenders and get the mooring lines ready

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You're not living in the real world matey.

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Whatever world it is i'm happy with it - less work for me when mooring /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[[2068]]

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...until you hear the sound that an outboard makes when it's being lowered towards, then misses the transom - a kind of "schloop" as the water closes around it as it disappears from view.

 

[JasonB]

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You're Not a Real Boater until... You hear the ploop of your camera hitting the water after falling out of your shirt pocket as you bend over to lift a fender

You're Not a Real Boater until... you rescue someone yesterday and need to be rescued yourself today

You're Not a Real Boater until... you knock down your nephew by punching him with your hand as you start the outboard

You're Not a Real Boater until... you spend a day changing fuel/spark plugs etc. and then finding the Outboard did actually have a fuel cut off valve

You're Not a Real Boater until... you step off the boat with the safety line still attached to your lifejacket ..... between your legs .... and your back is to the boat ..... and the boat is moving away from the pontoon.....

You're Not a Real Boater until... you hear the splash of your daughter falling headfirst backwards into the water..... and she's two years old!

You're Not a Real Boater until... you've held onto the back of a family member throwing up over the side of the boat .... for the third time.... on the first day of the holiday.... within two hours of leaving the marina

You're Not a Real Boater until... you've chewed a prop up by forgetting to calibrate the depthsounder to your props rather then your keel.

You're Not a Real Boater until... you forget to change the deep water setting on the old seafarer depthsounder to shallow water and think you're in one ft of water rather than sixFt

I've got to stop, I don't have enought time for the rest!

J.

 

[adrianb]

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You're Not a Real Boater until... you fall in holding the brand new outboard. There was no way that was going to the bottom !

You're Not a Real Boater until... you slip on the shore power cable that is acrosss the bathing platform, wearing not much, in February, when the electricity trips due to a hairdryer, and cracking your knee on the concrete under pontoon support trying to get out, at 11pm...............

 

[jfm]

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Yup. I was a teenager. It was a 12foot speedboat (home made using GRP and a probably counterfeit mould from Glassplies) on Southport beach. The Renault 4 was far from ideal. However, you remember those big chrome loop handles beside the headlights, made from bent 1inch tubing? Lawd knows why renault fitted those but they very handy for quickly attaching a towline thrown by the Southport beach Dukw (remember them?)!

 

[simon]

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You're Not a Real Boater until ...

You remember that you have auto pilot engaged whilst heading towards a breakwater at 20 knts and desperatly trying to turn away.

 

[Philiz]

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What a brilliant light-hearted thread, well done RR!!
So this is what we have to look forward to as newbies! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BlueJasper]

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You're Not a Real Boater until ... you flatten a dinghy sailor in Chi harbour and not damage your boat!

 

[pcv]

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Spent all afternoon painting the topside's, step back to admire the work. Then remember youre on a trot mooring at high tide and unable to climbe back aboard swim to the shore to look back at the boat with the tender still bobbing behind. Swim back to the boat to hide in shame.

 

[DPH]

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You're not a real boater until...

... Your girlfriend actually offers and enjoys to go out in the rain to lower the fenders and get the mooring lines ready

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More like

You're not a real boater until...

... After radioing the lock to say you are 5 minutes away the girfriend storms downstairs, shuts and locks the hatch and won't come up. The fenders are not out yet!