[Closed] I bought a boat today

standby rnli

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2 good days when you own a boat.

The day you buy it and the day you sell it.

+1

Going for a bike ride:

1. Get bike out of garage.
2. Get on bike.
3. Ride bike.
4. Put bike in garage. If not SS, consider cleaning it.
5. Eat cake.

Going sailing.

1. Drive to sailing club.
2. Take cover off boat. Bail out rusty rainwater.
3. Erect mast
4. Tie all those bits of string onto mast and boat
5. Raise sail
6. Panic as v.windy and sail flapping like crazy
7. Attach jib
8. Run around trying to catch jib when blows away
9. Wheel boat towards water
10. Push boat into water
11. Jump into boat
12. Jump out and go find tiller
13. Get back in boat, fix tiller to rudder correctly
14. Attempt to push off and catch wind before being blown back onto shore towards unsmiling old-timers
15. Fail. Go to 14. Several times.
16. Eventually get away from shore.
17. Wind drops. Sit in middle of lake becalmed.
18. Eat cake.

That was going well til you ran out of steam at 17 !
Reminds me of kids stories that once they realise they have done the required one page always end with....'and then I woke up'!

What boat?

What in the name of all that is holy possesed you to do some thing as terminally stupid as to buy an old boat of any description?

I used to race dinghies when I was younger; it was ace fun and I would love to take it up again but there just aren't enough Sundays in the year to justify having one right now.

One day I shall buy a sailing dinghy too, probably to find I have forgotten how it all works, but nonetheless, I shall have a boat. I congratulate you for taking the first step.

Same here Phiiiiil, can be brilliant fun. Only recently sold an RS400. Time again being the biggest problem. Can't just go for a quick spin on a boat 🙁

I like the look of the Feedship Predator
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Though most of their range are quite nice.

Just selling my son's 29er, dinghy that is not bike as it has sat in the dinghy park for the past 3 months untouched!

At the club I used to go to boats would sit totally unused for [i]years[/i] without being sold, it always struck me as a terrible waste of boat...

Are you using it for cockle picking?

There are a growing amount of inexperienced peeps going out into Morecambe bay to pick cockles (they're worth huge amounts of money when sold).
They buy cheap rubbish boats and then need Life boat rescue after getting into trouble with the treacherous tides.

See, that is why having 6 boats at work, and be paid most weeks to head out for a sail is where it is at 🙂