The boat thread - an even shorter road to financial ruin?

[Phil the Brit]

Boat: A hole in the water into which one throws money.
See also: Itialian money toilet.

BOAT also stands for break out another thousand

 

[daverichardson]

My first girlfriend surname was Coughan her first name was Lydia
We did not marry

 

[GeoffCapes]

This is like what I used to sail. One could be had now for the price a a GT.
Haven't a clue on mooring costs, but the fuel is free!

 

[Jamin]

based on financial advice, a wise man once told me
"if it flies, floats or fornicates, then rent it"

 

[Scaf]

One of my brothers has a lovely 1930’s traditional Norfolk Broads Yacht which is handy, another brother has a small 1950’s yacht based at West Mersea which is also handy.
Just need my other brother to get a motor boat based on the med, and I am sorted.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

This is to be my mistress for the next decade or so.
Plan to liveaboard most of the year. Circumnavigate
and explore all the places that I would've travelled to
before now, but for being ill.
She's a 50' converted off-shore racer and a Sparkman & Stephens
design. Made for races like the Fastnet. Fitted out for short handed
cruising by a German shipwright. She's not as pretty as a Swan or
Contessa, but she's extremely tough and luxurious below deck.
Unfortunately she's on land in the US, but as soon as I can fly
over, I'll be getting a full survey done, sorting out what she
needs and then heading to the Caribbean or Med.
I'm an experienced sailor. But will be doing my RYA Yachtmaster
Ocean in the New Year to sharpen up my skills and drills etc

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

This is like what I used to sail. One could be had now for the price a a GT.
Haven't a clue on mooring costs, but the fuel is free!

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So far as I know. Mooring fees run from about £1,000 p.a. for a mooring ball on a river etc to
a few thousand for a berth and club membership at one of the better sailing clubs in the UK
or Ireland. That's for a monohull (as pictured) up to 40 feet. As you go up to 50 feet and beyond
I'm guessing its something like £1,000 per ten feet of boat length. Its calculated per foot,
but I can't recall those figures. If you can't do any of the maintenance or repairs yourself,
the running costs inc insurance go up fairly exponentially over about forty feet in length.
The above is for sailboats. Motorboats, I haven't a clue about.

 

[BennyD]

based on financial advice, a wise man once told me
"if it flies, floats or fornicates, then rent it"

A very wise man once told me, “If it floats, flies, f*cks or eats hay, hire it by the hour”.

 

[Ewan]

This is to be my mistress for the next decade or so.
Plan to liveaboard most of the year. Circumnavigate
and explore all the places that I would've travelled to
before now, but for being ill.

If you are keeping this boat a while and circumnavigating, you are going to need some proper anti-foul. In due course I can put you in touch with our distributor in the US so it can be treated with Coppercoat after the survey but before the re-launch. Maserati Forum discount, of course!

 

[Wack61]

I've heard of trying to pull a bridesmaid at a wedding, but pulling a coffin at a funeral, that's pretty niche.

He's in there somewhere , they've never found a picture clear enough to identify him though

 

[rossyl]

On the subject of renting - in order to escape COVID last September I chartered a yacht and skipper and cruised and dived around the Bay of Naples for a week. Fantastic! Boating makes alot more sense in that part of the world.

Eb

What was the diving like? Mostly small stuff and some coral?

 

[CatmanV2]

He's in there somewhere , they've never found a picture clear enough to identify him though

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What was he wearing? That might help........

C

 

[Wack61]

What was he wearing? That might help........

C

It was a blue uniform and a hat with a white band on it and bell bottom trousers , his boots were very shiny if that helps

 

[CatmanV2]

It was a blue uniform and a hat with a white band on it and bell bottom trousers , his boots were very shiny if that helps

Well, that shouldn't bee too hard to find!

C

 

[Scaf]

He's in there somewhere , they've never found a picture clear enough to identify him though

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What regiment was he in and on what part of the route, I have access to the full details of the funeral including all routes and timings and who did what, every detail is listed and mapped.
Only officers seemed to be named though.

 

[Scaf]

He's in there somewhere , they've never found a picture clear enough to identify him though

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It that Whitehall?

 

[P5Nij]

My brother in law served on HMS Leander , he also pulled Winston Churchill's coffin at his funeral , not on his own like.

A mate at work's best mate was the fireman on Winston Churchill's funeral train from Waterloo to Hanborough (the nearest station to Blenheim Palace).

Quick, someone post a pic of a boat.....

 

[Scaf]

A mate at work's best mate was the fireman on Winston Churchill's funeral train from Waterloo to Hanborough (the nearest station to Blenheim Palace).

Quick, someone post a pic of a boat.....

How about this

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

If you are keeping this boat a while and circumnavigating, you are going to need some proper anti-foul. In due course I can put you in touch with our distributor in the US so it can be treated with Coppercoat after the survey but before the re-launch. Maserati Forum discount, of course!

Very decent of you Ewan. Hopefully my Guinness soaked brain won't forget your kind offer

 

[Ebenezer]

What was the diving like? Mostly small stuff and some coral?

We did 3 dives

1. At the site of a sunken royal Roman baths complex in Baiae in about 5-6m which was fascinating and exciting as the part that we were looking at had only been discovered a few months earlier. Mosaics, column bases, hypocaust piping. It had sunk into the sea gradually following volcanic activity. Despite being so shallow, it was quite challenging since it was difficult to keep your bouyancy right without either crashing into the archaeology or bobbing up to the surface!
2. Off Ischia where we dived through lava tubes and saw Roman amphorae and a Roman anchor. Very interesting and a different dive
3. Off Ventotene which was the only real dive with any fish - barracuda plus other stuff. What they call a reef but no corals. This was far enough away from Naples for there to be more fish and better viz. Ventontene was amazing, mooring up in the original Roman port

Eb