"I Hate My Boat"

[Lostmt]

This is how I feel about my little 22' boat and she is my first. I love her and she will take care of me.

I'm one of them that bought a boat and never sailed before. I was even told I was to old to learn to sail. HAHA

Originally Posted by 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.

[US27inKS]

Originally Posted by smackdaddy

Dude - that is a beautiful boat. Nice work.

Thanks, but really it's nothing that anyone couldn't do to their own boat. Just a few thousand hours and unlimited patience from your wife.

[deniseO30]

Well! it would seem that the reverse is true! Maybe I should have made a thread " I love my boat" ? Maybe then the haters would have came out of the closet!

[deniseO30]

Woo Hooo my 1,000th posting! and you saw it here! LOL

[midnightsailor]

SECURITE--SECURITE-- DO NOT BURN MINERAL SPIRITS IN YOUR OIL LAMPS !!

I was serenely reading this thread and thinking how much i loved my new to me Freedom 33 which I have been living aboard since June. How wonderful she looks all cleaned up, wood varnished, overhead scribed white like new, soft music on the stereo, and the soft warm glow of the oil lamps burning, getting sleepy and almost ready to turn in and what the heck is this? All of a sudden there like a million tiny black ants, no flies, nowhat is this..floating in front of me this black like whispy smoke like stuff , like black snow,,OH NO! NO! the oil lamp! I look over at it and thick black smoke is pouring, I MEAN POURING !! out of it..quick put it out, how? outside quick...Well I just spent the last several hours vacumning and scrubing every surface, corner, crack and creavice, not to mention evry pillow, cushion, placemat, light fixture, book, dishrag, bell, compass, plant and sock in my boat trying to suck up this soot and smoke from my once , minutes before, spotless interior....oops wait gotta brush of the soot from the computer display...ok there , thats better, well I have every hatch, vent, and port open. Its freezing in here but atleast the air is clearing.
I gotta go and finnish cleaning, and I have to say at this moment "I Still Love My bOat" but I could kill whoever suggested that you could burn mineral spirits in an oil lamp !!
ITS NOT FUNNY

[Stillraining]

Bummer!

Power went out at the house a couple years ago and a cheep dollar store candle holder caught fire...it did the same thing to half the house...The newly remodeled half bath that it was in has never been the same.

[jrd22]

Originally Posted by US27inKS

Just a few thousand hours and unlimited patience from your wife.

Boy, ain't that the truth!

[rdstanley]

I love my boat. Matter of fact I couldn't imagine hating it. I quess some people are never satisfied though. These same people who hate their boats probably hate their homes, cars, and anything else they have. Pretty sad way to go though life I think.

[nuffoftexas]

I don't even have a boat to hate... that's what I hate.

[CalypsoP35]

I wonder how many of the "haters", just hate sailing or owning a boat in general.

While Calypso is far from my dream boat, there is not a day when on my dinghy ride back to the dock, I don't look back longingly at her and consider myself lucky to have her. (Maybe I should be comitted? ) I even say that about my wife. Now I know I should be committed.