Shiny boat stigma

[Chertsey]

My boat is (currently) shiny but it's not a shiny boat...

 

I think this may be because I'm not that bothered if it gets unshiny.

[luggsy]

Your fxxked if you have a new boat then

[dogless]

I look up to him, and look down on him.

 

Rog

 

Classic sketch

[billS]

Being full length with a shiny cabin but not shiny hull, we often found boaters coming the other way looking anywhere but at us as if we didn't even exist.

 

That is how boats should be in my opinion.

 

One of the few things that irritates me on the cut is people who are desperate to protect the paintwork on their hull, which is glossed down to the rubbing strip in the same colour as the cabin side. It can't be done with normal boating and display of such angst is a good indicator of marina parkers who only take their boat out for a couple of weeks per year.

 

Shiny cabin yes - shiny hull no!

[lydfordcastle]

I am a shiny boating man
Peaked cap and captain's stripe
Don't touch my paint, don't moor too close
Or dirt I'll have to wipe

Descending locks with fenders down
Not sharing when requested
Wasting water ? Bah, humbug
Patience sorely tested.

Slow down past me, tickover speed
Don't care how long it takes
Don't share my ring, leave a big gap
You'll have to use your stakes

Water points and lock landings
Are just for me to moor
C&RT Regulations
Are for the unwashed poor

I used to have a shiny boat
‘til Tim and Pru came cruisin'
Now the dents and scrapes and dings
Seem like I’ve been boozin'

[casper ghost]

I am a shiny boating man

boozin'

 

I'm struggling to read that, we need a clip of someone reading it, I can't get the rhythm right..

Casp'

[Jess--]

I have no issue with any sort of boat as such, but at times have run into issues where shiny boats do like expect normal canal contact to take place, and while each to their own, I do struggle with people who feel the rubbing strakes must also remain shiny. Certainly if they prevents be sharing a lock with them.

 

 

Daniel

The only time I could be accused of having shiny rubbing strakes was the first 24 hours after the boat was blacked (and painted with black gloss above the top strake)

 

the only time after that that my strakes look anything like shiny is when I've scraped them down to bare metal

[cereal tiller]

I'm struggling to read that, we need a clip of someone reading it, I can't get the rhythm right..

Casp'

Seems to fit "I'm a Neanderthal man",a song by whoever"ETA a band called "Hotlegs"

 

CT

 

I'm struggling to read that, we need a clip of someone reading it, I can't get the rhythm right..

Casp'

t

Edited September 8, 2016 by cereal tiller

[Machpoint005]

It's not whether the boat is shiny, it's what the owner thinks the paint is there for.

 

(1) It's to make the boat look pretty;

 

(2) It's to stop the boat from going rusty.

 

I incline towards (2).

[MtB]

Seems to fit "I'm a Neanderthal man",a song by whoever"ETA a band called "Hotlegs"

 

CT

 

t

 

"I'm a Union Man" by The Strawbs also has that same scan/meter.

[Joe the plumber]

If anyone else knows of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, I can only repeat the words of Old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer, who said 'Shiny always looks dandy'.

 

However, our superstructure paintwork is entirely matt green primer, and it always will be while we own the boat.

[RLWP]

What about a scruffy boater on s scruffy boat? Where do I fit in?

Phil

 

We know our place

 

Richard

[Victor Vectis]

Best to give up boating and take up knitting as we are a hostile and clannish lot.

God Gawd Nick!

 

You are obviously not familiar withknitters and spinners.

 

<Runs away muttering about hair of the yak>

[tree monkey]

 

We know our place

 

Richard

Yup stealing my sausages

[dmr]

When we had a mooring on the Eastern K&A (the posh end) a fellow moorer remarked "your boat would look ok if you tidied up the paintwork".

Going into the Barge at HoneyStreet (approaching the crusty K&A western end) a couple of years ago, with the boat now several years older, a drinker remarked "its the man from the shiny boat. You can't win!!!

 

............Dave

[GUMPY]

Now where is that I look up/down to him cartoon about boaters.

[PaddingtonBear]

My boat is (currently) shiny but it's not a shiny boat...

 

I think this may be because I'm not that bothered if it gets unshiny.

What? maybe That is because you have an old donkey to polish it for you

[Ray T]

Oh dear, I spent some of this afternoon washing and polishing the right hand side of our boat. So am I half a shiny boater?

 

Anyway 2 in 1 here a shiny working boat:

 

 

 

Must get priority at bridge 'oles and locks.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Ray T

[system 4-50]

Only once has a shiny boater refused to share a lock with me. Once he had told me that he was taking it to Crick as a "show boat" I was happy to wait and let him through by himself.

[Bee]

Hmph, don't care about shiny boats. What I DO care about is shiny 4WD brutes that cost tens of thousand of pounds, have hundreds of horsepower, are supposedly made to go 'offroad' and are driven by idiots that won't pull over to let me squeeze through a tight spot on country roads in case the cow parsley on the verge scratches the paintwork, I, meanwhile am driving through hawthorn, barbed wire, and puzzled cattle so they can pretend to be Brian Aldridge (the Archers in case you didn't know) Grrrrrr

[Chertsey]

Only once has a shiny boater refused to share a lock with me. Once he had told me that he was taking it to Crick as a "show boat" I was happy to wait and let him through by himself.

 

If someone refused to share a lock with me, that's their choice, but they would be the ones to wait.

[Rob-M]

Only once has a shiny boater refused to share a lock with me. Once he had told me that he was taking it to Crick as a "show boat" I was happy to wait and let him through by himself.

When taking Swift (ex Working Boat) to Crick a few years back we shared with one of the Shiny boats on its way to Crick for display. The owners were more than happy to share the locks with us.

[Dave Payne]

Talking of shiny boats, i passed the famous boat the other week (cant remember its name) that cost stupid money, the one with the remote controls the couple had built and then sold it a year later, was very very shiny still....

[Catnip King]

I polished our last boat once and its the first time the dog has fell off the boat whilst on the move. Polishing can be deadly lol

 

 

Polished?

 

Not sure I understand. Boats sink if you polish them, don't they? Even if not, I'm damned if I'm taking the risk.

Besides, polishing it might mislead the local scrotes into thinking there was something inside worth breaking in and nicking!

Edited September 9, 2016 by Catnip King

[Ray T]

Talking of shiny boats, i passed the famous boat the other week (cant remember its name) that cost stupid money, the one with the remote controls the couple had built and then sold it a year later, was very very shiny still....

 

Do you mean Whitefield?

 

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