" Season "

[mrsmelly]

Of late I have noticed the term " Cruising season " or " Season " creep into an ever increasing amount of threads. Please desist. I dont know wether its new boaters or Hobby boaters or if its no specific group but there is NO boating season, if such as CART keep seeing that people believe there is an open and closed pat of the year then we will eventualy play into their hands. Taa muchly.

[TheBiscuits]

Just take it with a pinch of salt ...

[Rob-M]

We have a boating season, it runs from Jan 1 until Dec 31.

[mrsmelly]

1 minute ago, TheBiscuits said:

Just take it with a pinch of salt ...

Salt is bad for my blood pressure.

[Sea Dog]

Wasn't it CRT who introduced the term?

[mrsmelly]

Just now, Sea Dog said:

Wasn't it CRT who introduced the term?

Must all make an effort to never use it then!!

[Richard Fairhurst]

It's not really "of late" - people have been using the phrase (and being chastised for it) for 20+ years, online and offline. I pretty much banned it from WW when I was editor, and from Waterscape before that, though no doubt one or two slipped through. I think you can forgive it when describing certain rivers which are generally impassable in the winter, but certainly on the canals there's no cruising season.

[Midnight]

We used to have a (winter) stoppages season, now we have a stoppages season from Jan - Dec

 

[Sea Dog]

2 minutes ago, Midnight said:

We used to have a (winter) stoppages season, now we have a stoppages season from Jan - Dec

 

And don't policemen look young?! 

 

[mrsmelly]

9 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

And don't policemen look young?! 

 

And more importantly Surgeons!! 

[dor]

1 hour ago, mrsmelly said:

And more importantly Surgeons!! 

So you watched that programme last night too.

[mrsmelly]

2 hours ago, dor said:

So you watched that programme last night too.

No? The reason is that when I went to see the surgeon who was going to do my op last time I was in his room at the Churchill and this 12 year old boy was explaining to me the options re my kidney tumours etc etc and what could be done. I was looking round the room for his Dad to appear before realising he was the surgeon 

However when I actualy went down for the op I had the senior bod who was not much younger than me 

[Jerra]

1 minute ago, mrsmelly said:

No? The reason is that when I went to see the surgeon who was going to do my op last time I was in his room at the Churchill and this 12 year old boy was explaining to me the options re my kidney tumours etc etc and what could be done. I was looking round the room for his Dad to appear before realising he was the surgeon 

However when I actualy went down for the op I had the senior bod who was not much younger than me 

My dentist is a 12 year old girl!

[Hudds Lad]

i'll be quizzing my 14 year old daughter when she gets home from school as to why she hasn't got such a lucrative career already!

[Arthur Marshall]

As what is now a hobby boater, I do think of the period from mid March to the end of October as my boating season. The other four months I just check it every now and then but have no intention to potter off.

The phrase has always been used to cover the main hire boat season, from Easterish to Autumnish. I don't see it as a problem. The way things are going, CRT calling it an open or closed season isn't going to make any difference to the fact that half the system will be unusable at any one time, due to water shortages, floods, lock failures, bank breaches and the odd bridge collapse.

 

[Machpoint005]

17 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

>>when I actualy went down for the op I had the senior bod who was not much younger than me<<

 

I hope his hands were steadier than yours!

[mrsmelly]

1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

I hope his hands were steadier than yours!

It was robot assisted and that apparently takes any trembling out of the equasion, even dts 

[Machpoint005]

What does that tell you about the alcohol intake of the typical consultant surgeon, I wonder?

[mrsmelly]

1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:

What does that tell you about the alcohol intake of the typical consultant surgeon, I wonder?

The bloodshot eyes tell the tale innitt.

[ditchcrawler]

4 hours ago, Rob-M said:

We have a boating season, it runs from Jan 1 until Dec 31.

Same as mine and I'm a hobby boater

[Cas446]

37 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

The phrase has always been used to cover the main hire boat season, from Easterish to Autumnish

The Autumnish date (for hire boats) is due to the October half term school holiday, last week in October.

[GUMPY]

There was a boating season this year it was from July 4th to October 4th.

July 4th when we were allowed to stay on our boats

October 4th when the SSA was imposed on the EA Anglian rivers.

 

[Sea Dog]

5 hours ago, Rob-M said:

We have a boating season, it runs from Jan 1 until Dec 31.

Us too, but I find it more difficult now that many of the most useful 48 hour moorings change to 14 days in the winter. When the weather turns bad and the days are short, finding such places continually occupied can be a real downer.

[mrsmelly]

19 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

Us too, but I find it more difficult now that many of the most useful 48 hour moorings change to 14 days in the winter. When the weather turns bad and the days are short, finding such places continually occupied can be a real downer.

Yes, a bad move. Ccing is a lifestyle choice that should not impact on boats with a mooring more heavily in winter than in summer. 

[Dan1981]

6 hours ago, Rob-M said:

We have a boating season, it runs from Jan 1 until Dec 31.

I was thinking the boating season lasts 11 months a year, 1st Sept - 31st July ?