Warning

[system 4-50]

at this time.

I have been transcribing birthdays from my 2012 calendar to my 2013 calendar, and what has become apparent is that the activity that causes boats to become smaller (or even too small) is at a peak for about six weeks from the middle of January.

Please be careful out there, particularly if your boat is already quite small!

[jodansgang]

Please elaborate.

[DHutch]

People, children, have birthdays, which lead to more and larger people onboard, which clump around weeks 3-9 of the year. Afaik.

 

 

Daniel

[Athy]

 

Afaik.

 

 

Or rather A f**k.

[bizzard]

People, children, have birthdays, which lead to more and larger people onboard, which clump around weeks 3-9 of the year. Afaik.

 

 

Daniel

And a steel boat will contract a bit in the cold making it smaller too, but bigger from spring onwards as it expands again.

[steven wilkinson]

I read that as it is 'the activity' is at its peak during weeks 3 to 9! Lets be careful in there!

[Mac of Cygnet]

People, children, have birthdays, which lead to more and larger people onboard, which clump around weeks 3-9 of the year. Afaik.

 

 

Daniel

 

Which would be the six weeks from the middle of October, if the activity is as the OP suggested. Both of our sons were born in this 'birthday window'!

[casper ghost]

May, that's when my daughter invites her friends who all squeeze into the back cabin for her birthday party and sleepover...

Casp'

[system 4-50]

It is that time again, when a lack of carefulness that can cause your boat to become smaller in 9.5 months time, is more common.

Not to mention bills for 20 years.

[Proper Job]

It is that time again, when a lack of carefulness that can cause your boat to become smaller in 9.5 months time, is more common.

Not to mention bills for 20 years.

 

Only 20 years?

 

Or is that only 20 years so far

[Southern Star]

This is the honest truth, my boat is 41 feet, 11 and 15/16th inches long, and I'm glad the licence falls due in February because I'm sure that in the heat of August it would be 42 feet long.

[Emerald Fox]

Er.... is this the old chestnut about.... You know how heat makes things expand, and cold makes things contract? Yes. Well, is that why the days in Summer are longer, and the days in Winter are shorter?

[system 4-50]

Er.... is this the old chestnut about.... You know how heat makes things expand, and cold makes things contract? Yes. Well, is that why the days in Summer are longer, and the days in Winter are shorter?

No.

[Peter X]

Looking at the official statistics for the UK here (a much bigger sample size than System 4-50's friends and relatives):

http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3A55

what strikes me is that there is hardly any seasonal variation in births at all. You'd have thought the weather or some other seasonal factor would make some difference but no, apparently not.

In the last two years February has the least, but that'll be because it has less days...

[GoodGurl]

It is that time again, when a lack of carefulness that can cause your boat to become smaller in 9.5 months time, is more common.

Not to mention bills for 20 years.

are you implying that in this cold weather there could be the sound of little feet in 9.5 months time, hence the boat getting smaller?

[Ange]

There are exceptional circumstances where a baby's conception can be linked to the weather. Our boy is a hurricane baby, born 9 months after the 1987 hurricane which left our village in Kent without power for a week.

 

After all what's a young couple to do with themselves with no telly for a week?

 

(We'd probably dig out candles, playing cards and board games nowadays but we were young then ,)

[system 4-50]

Looking at the official statistics for the UK here (a much bigger sample size than System 4-50's friends and relatives):

http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3A55

what strikes me is that there is hardly any seasonal variation in births at all. You'd have thought the weather or some other seasonal factor would make some difference but no, apparently not.

In the last two years February has the least, but that'll be because it has less days...

Ok. A slight repositioning is necessary. Take particular care not to become a friend or relative of mine in the next 6 weeks if you are a younger couple living in a smallish boat.