"I Hate My Boat"

[Dirtboy]

I work in the service department of a large powersports dealership. I'm here to tell you there are some people who can't be pleased. There aren't too many of them out there, but when I deal with them I usually end up feeling quite sorry for them ........... they've got to live with themselves 24/7, I've only got to deal with them for a day or so.

We had one customer who brought his new Jet Boat in for it's first service and had 47 seperate complaints, (it's our all time reccord) about three valid ones and the rest were things like: "If the sun is just right, and you hold your head right here, you can see a 1 inch mar ...... no can't see it now, the sun has to be just right!" I know that instead of enjoying his new Jet Boat, he's constantly obsessing over trival flaws in his drive for perfection. It got so bad last time that he was politely told to find a new service department next time he needed service; we're through, we hate disapointing customers.

DB

[catamount]

I bet people hate their boats because they bought the wrong boat for the way they actually use their boat. For example, maybe they bought a traditional full keel with a clipper bow and long bowsprit and a lot of wood trim, because they thought it looked good and seaworthy and they like the appearance, but in fact their slip is deep in a marina that has a complicated array of piers, fingers, and channels and thus requires a lot of maneuvering to get in and out, and they're not actually out crossing oceans, just going for daysails on the weekends, which they do less and less because hoisting those heavy sails on those recalcitrant sailtracks (that look nice and traditional) is just too difficult.

[flyingwelshman]

I love my boat!

She is my first.

She’s not the prettiest, but she has a natural wholesomeness and is comfortable in her ‘skin’.

She lets me try things out with her: things I’ve read about in magazines or on the internet.

While those with the high-maintenance, newer, ‘trophy’ yachts are stuck at the dock spending money on their boats’ looks – I’m out riding mine like there’s no tomorrow.

Yeah, I know that the time will come when I’ll want something younger: something with sleeker lines and curves in all the right places. Until that time comes I will appreciate what I’ve got. And when we do eventually part ways and I’m the one with the shiny new craft, I know I will always have a place for her in my heart.

She’s my first and always will be.

[lapworth]

How can anyone who goes out on there boat hate there boat? If you hate your boat then you wouldn't use it. Examples of people who would hate a boat :

1 - an ex who won the boat in court out of spite (will probable sell it)

2 - The spouse who hates sailing but has a husband or wife who loves to sail all the time.

3 - My wife would like me to buy a motor boat. I told her it would be her boat because I HATE motor boats. So if you saw me working on a motor boat I might say I hate this boat but I would never say I hate my boat.

Sailboats look like dreams too me, motor boats look like nightmares.

[deniseO30]

It seems to me that people who hate the boat don't take em out. find nothing but reasons not to sail it. The novelity seems to wear off as soon as they take possesion! Soon the boat is either abandoned, just motored at the dock, never sailed, anymore and just kept at the club,or marina because it's near impossible to sell a boat that is not maintained.

[cb32863]

I hate the fact that I don't have a boat.......... yet. Once I get my experience level up, I will. Difficult to be patient but I know it will pay off in the end.

[knothead]

Originally Posted by Stillraining

Smacky get sent to time out did he?

Yeah, Ol Smack has been tamed apparently. Used to be a ban would just p!ss him off. Nowadays he just concentrates on making everybody on the Fight Club thread hug and play nice.
Oh well, I guess it happens to the best of em.

[tager]

Originally Posted by Sabreman

... Or they have wildly unrealistic expectations like we sometimes see on Sailnet ("I only have funds for a junk 22' footer and want to live aboard and circumnavigate...and I've never sailed").

Well, how unrealistic is that really? I know you can't sail around the world on a "junk" boat, but I do know that you can on a 22' boat, and that many have done so on smaller boats. It's also important to remember, the difference between a "junk" 22' boat, and a really nice 22' boat is a lot smaller than the difference between a "junk" 30ft boat and a really nice 30 ft boat.

[bashmaki]

interesting thread to read for one with no sailboat. Many things to consider

[RTB]

Originally Posted by bashmaki

interesting thread to read for one with no sailboat. Many things to consider

Much depends on the boat you buy. I had a nice little Laguna 22 as my first sailboat. We just sailed it every chance we got, and nothing hardly ever broke. I just got an older Hunter 36. It's a great boat for me, and has developed a couple of issues. An older, larger boat is going to have things that need fixing. Don't expect to just go crank up the diesel, and go sailing every time. If you just remember they are boats, and they break, you'll never hate your boat. This applies to new boats too, not just older ones.