Select to expand quotecisco said..Wander66 said..
I would have thought that a boat named after a Scottish mountain would have appealed to the other aspects of your lifestyle. Wouldn't be a bad idea to do the ceremony before the 3rd thing happens.
You need to be careful that you do not take anything Wander66 says too seriously.
He is as supersticious as they come and says he regularly hosts aliens that land on his rural block for BBQs on his back balcony.
His warped mind my be a result of him drinking too much of his home distilled Rum. Come to think of it, I think he owes me half a pint of his poison.
Yep, got that. I tend to rely on science when looking for explanations.
Select to expand quoteDexport said..
So I went to my family's for Xmas lunch yesterday and left all the hatches open, came back a few hours later to a massive storm and a flooded boat. I'm the idiot here and learnt a lesson.
Today went for a sail over to Bribie Island, got into the channel and turned into the wind to drop the sails. Started the engine to keep her into the current and realized there was no thrust happening. Dropped the pick, got the sails sorted then jumped overboard. No prop!! That was a surprise for sure. It was a 2blade folding prop. 24 tacks into the wind later and I was back outside the channel off Newport Marina where the coastguard met me and towed me to my berth. I'm flying to Switzerland early tomorrow so it all pretty hectic. I got an anode and just wired it onto the saildrive shaft, hopefully that will be enough. What do you wise folks think?
Vernon.
I was sitting in the Marina in Scarborough, when that storm hit, it was a nasty one!! ?? I can only imagine how much water you had to deal with......
What's this fascination with boat names? Does it really matter?
It's like the colour of a car.
Who gives a toss? I don't.
Select to expand quotesirgallivant said..
What's this fascination with boat names? Does it really matter?
It's like the colour of a car.
Who gives a toss? I don't.
Of course you do. One of the many cars I owned was a beautiful XJC jag.
It was light brown/green with a black roof. The colour did not perturb me until the daughters nicknamed it "the turd" and the name stuck.
No more turd coloured cars.
Select to expand quotesirgallivant said..
What's this fascination with boat names? Does it really matter?
It's like the colour of a car.
Who gives a toss? I don't.
Yep I think the same, well about the superstition side of it anyway. I don't really like the name of my new boat, it was an emotional name for the previous owner but means nothing to me so I'll change it. No Biggie.
