Sloop or Ketch?

[pigslo]

Go rent a boat for a week to find out if it suits you. There are charter companies that will rent a boat muck like a motel room with the condition that the boat stay at the dock. Living on a boat is not the same lifestyle as living in even a tiny apartment. Picture the tinyest motel room you have ever seen and cut that in half. add to that showering in a public shower at the marina. Of course you could maintain your membership at the gym and wonder whether Bruno the body builder is checking out your sweet ass or not. Then there is the food thing. I barbequed alot, against marina rules at many marinas. You will sleep better with the constant rocking though. As for dates, well most women look at a guy that lives on a boat just one step above trailor trash (though both trailor trash and boat dwellers get unfair rap). All in all it was great fun for me.... when I moved back to a house.
Good Luck!
pigslo

[cjmcfall]

Pigslo,

I don't really agree with the part about the ladies! I have lived aboard on two different occasions and they seem to really dig it. Maybe being in my twenties helps that situation though.

[sailhog]

It's the stench from the head. My youngest daughter parked a soup can-sized lunker in there a couple of months ago, and it hasn't smelled the same since. Yesterday I discovered the joker valve leaks a bit when I pump, and now I'm downright afraid to do any maintenance.

[Giulietta]

Please, what is a soup can-sized lunker?

[sailhog]

Giu,
It's a turd with the approximate dimensions of a soup can -- about 5 inches long, 3 inches wide. I would convert it to metric for you, but I don't know how.

[TrueBlue]

Another stimulating sloop/ketch discussion gone to crap . . . ketch yawl later. < G >

[USCGRET1990]

Here ya go...
http://www.seoconsultants.com/charts/inches-decimal/

[sailhog]

My avatar is a picture of her pushing it out. For a second there I thought I was a grandpa.

[conrat66]

I am not so computer literate or literate at all as far as that goes but hope there is some way to file this post to show your lovly daughter when she is about seventeen ha ha fair winds and foul smells

[sailhog]

Conrad,
I'd better get started now on deleting my posts...