Things you wouldn't have on boat again.

[carlt]

My pool table was a disaster

I had a full size Old English Bagatelle table on Usk which worked quite well although it did have to be levelled off again, each time it came out.

 

Unfortunately it hasn't fared so well stored in the garage since moving ashore and is in the workshop awaiting full restoration.

[bizzard]

Snooker and Pool tables are easily adapted for use on boats. You just bash off the existing cushions and pockets and fit guttering and drain pipes all around instead. The player that loses all their balls in the gutter first loses.

Edited August 25, 2015 by bizzard

[Bettie Boo]

Spiders

 

Vinyl cratch cover

 

Single glazed windows

[John V]

a watercooled generator and a drying out mooring

[keble]

Stupid fairleads. They are a dumb design. There must be a better way ...

[sueb]

a rayburn

[John V]

a rayburn

 

Got one, I have had it for nearly 18 years, it is being retired to back up status only because advancing years and a bout of poor health makes the collection and transport of anthracite/logs impractical for full time use.

[madcat]

Husbeast , he takes up too much space in the cabin and snores

[zenataomm]

Cow.

 

I had one walk onto my tug deck one night at Shardlow.

[Ray T]

 

A BMW driver - insert a James May expression.

Edited August 25, 2015 by Ray T

[saltysplash]

Joanne Cooper.

 

She was a nightmare after a couple of sherberts

[TheBiscuits]

 

Got one, I have had it for nearly 18 years, it is being retired to back up status only because advancing years and a bout of poor health makes the collection and transport of anthracite/logs impractical for full time use.

Maybe you should get it serviced if it is that bad.

Cow.

 

I had one walk onto my tug deck one night at Shardlow.

Saves running the fridge for milk.

 

Makes you more fond of pigeons though ...

[mark99]

Greta Garbo and her incessant tapping.

[Pykebird]

My ex!

[dor]

Bow thruster tube. I had it installed when the boat was built, the thinking being that as I get more infirm it might become necessary. I've come to the onclusion that if I can't put my boat where I want to then I should give up boating. Or maybe get a smaller boat.

 

It takes up quite a bit of space, gets in the way of the water stop taps and in fact required a smaller tank in the first place to get it over the tube. And everyone else seems to store their wine in that space. So I took it out last time boat was out of the water.

[dmr]

Bow thruster tube. I had it installed when the boat was built, the thinking being that as I get more infirm it might become necessary. I've come to the onclusion that if I can't put my boat where I want to then I should give up boating. Or maybe get a smaller boat.

 

It takes up quite a bit of space, gets in the way of the water stop taps and in fact required a smaller tank in the first place to get it over the tube. And everyone else seems to store their wine in that space. So I took it out last time boat was out of the water.

 

I am amazed how often "experts" and even some on this forum advise undecided newbies to get a bow thruster tube fitted....all the disadvantages and none of the advantages!

 

.. ..Dave

[Naughty Cal]

Stupid fairleads. They are a dumb design. There must be a better way ...

Proper fairleads?

[larkshall]

Ropes that are too thick.

Fender socks (they really are the work of the devil)

TV

Monopoly. (not good in a rough sea when it ejects itself from the cupboard!)

Add scrabble to that, mine fell out of cupboard whilst motor sailing....cupboard was over the engine.. Scrabble tiles hurt when they fall thru alternator drive.

[nbfiresprite]

Older brother with a superiority complex. After his one and only visit to the boat.

[Naughty Cal]

Lasagne and cream wool carpets.

 

The reason we now have brown carpets.........

[FadeToScarlet]

 

Willow and the other "tree class" Severners have T studs on the counter, so ropes won't come off when tied to high dock walls.

 

They're not so good for tying to quickly when towing on a long line, and they're harder to use cross straps with.

[carlt]

Lasagne and cream wool carpets.

 

The reason we now have brown carpets.........

Perhaps simply cleaning up the lasagna would have prevented them turning brown.

[David Mack]

 

Willow and the other "tree class" Severners have T studs on the counter, so ropes won't come off when tied to high dock walls.

 

They're not so good for tying to quickly when towing on a long line, and they're harder to use cross straps with.

 

When did you get permission to go up the Backs when it was still warm enough for punting?

[FadeToScarlet]

 

When did you get permission to go up the Backs when it was still warm enough for punting?

You can go up between 1st October and 1st April. That particular trip was October 6th, a fairly warm weekend with plenty of punts out.

[Phil Ambrose]

My sister in law, she can fill a cassette in less than 24 hours and as for toilet roll.....

Phil