What's as big as a boat dollar?
1 boat hour.
For example.
See ya Darl I'll just go and do a few jobs for an hour and then we'll go.
1hr later and because of the stripped thread, lost tool (thanks kids!!), empty cartridge etc and only a quarter of the actual job is completed. Or as happens to me a lot, I see something else I didn't finish and finish it instead because I just happen to have the right size washer now.
It seems to me B.O.A.T stands for Bring On Another Two hours (if I'm lucky).
Is it just me that suffers boat hours and boat dollars?
Select to expand quoteslammin said..
Or as happens to me a lot, I see something else I didn't finish and finish it instead because I just happen to have the right size washer now.
Yep, I hear ya!!
How many hours have been spent searching for the dropped nut in the bilge, that manages to roll under the engine/transmission or whatever....pick whichever is the most inaccessible.
Select to expand quotesunycoastguy said..
Especially when your on a swing mooring, So many trips back and forth
I've got a trailer sailer that was in a mast up storage which is only 1k away from home as far as the crow flys but 10ish k's by car. I got so fed up with the drive I now keep the boat at home. Hence why I'm getting so many jobs done. Even with that luxury I still find myself up and down the driveway, up and down the driveway. Lucky my neighbourhood isn't interested in the stuff I forget to bring inside. Vernier calipers left out in plain view for 7 days. Thankyou tool keeping gods. 
Boat dollars??
Is that sort of like when you slip your boat 26 Nov 2016 thinking you can probably get her back in the water in a couple of weeks if all goes well but you allow for a month to cover all contingencies.
The month passes and you are still pulling apart not putting back together. That brings you well into the insane season of Christmas and New Year. You have a tenant who on 7 Dec starts a dispute by refusing to allow you an inspection of the property making a joke of the Residential Tenancies Act, then stops paying rent two weeks later.
In the meantime one is required to deliver one's wife and son to Brisbane international air port so they can frigg of to Europe for a big old holiday and as well go back down to the Sunshine Coast to spend New Years Eve with one's daughter.
The tenant is still frothing at the mouth and applies for a QCAT hearing at the court house on 12 Jan. It has been raining for a week or two so no painting happens and then it gets so frigging hot you don't dare be out in the sun for more than 5 minutes at a time.
So muggins turns up at the court house at the designated time 2 pm, waits around for 20 mins not seeing the evil adversary whom he was looking forward to tearing to shreds in front of "Her Honour", then enquires at the front desk if the hearing is still going ahead to be told the mongrel emailed in a cancellation of the action at 11:30 am.
The tenant abandoned the place the Saturday before leaving it filthy and owing a months rent.
Does this all qualify as "Boat Dollars"??
Select to expand quotecisco said..
Boat dollars??
Is that sort of like when you slip your boat 26 Nov 2016 thinking you can probably get her back in the water in a couple of weeks if all goes well but you allow for a month to cover all contingencies.
The month passes and you are still pulling apart not putting back together. That brings you well into the insane season of Christmas and New Year. You have a tenant who on 7 Dec starts a dispute by refusing to allow you an inspection of the property making a joke of the Residential Tenancies Act, then stops paying rent two weeks later.
In the meantime one is required to deliver one's wife and son to Brisbane international air port so they can frigg of to Europe for a big old holiday and as well go back down to the Sunshine Coast to spend New Years Eve with one's daughter.
The tenant is still frothing at the mouth and applies for a QCAT hearing at the court house on 12 Jan. It has been raining for a week or two so no painting happens and then it gets so frigging hot you don't dare be out in the sun for more than 5 minutes at a time.
So muggins turns up at the court house at the designated time 2 pm, waits around for 20 mins not seeing the evil adversary whom he was looking forward to tearing to shreds in front of "Her Honour", then enquires at the front desk if the hearing is still going ahead to be told the mongrel emailed in a cancellation of the action at 11:30 am.
The tenant abandoned the place the Saturday before leaving it filthy and owing a months rent.
Does this all qualify as "Boat Dollars"??
Name and shame the idiot Cisco, it's only fair to warn other people away from renting to those sort of aholes. 
I have passed on his new address to a couple of his creditors so that is a start.
Naming and shaming on TICA is not so easy. You need date of birth and/or driver licence number which he avoided giving me early in the piece. I am working on it.
Also trying to contact his new landlord. I feel morally obliged to do that.
I had nothing but trouble as a landlord. Tenants breaking stuff and wanting me to fix it, sub letting the place so it gets trashed and skipping owing months rent. It is worse now with the tenancy laws so much in favour of tenants.
Haven't owned a rental property now for 20 years, just get 6-8% dividends from my shares year after year growing gradually.
Media reports always focus on evil landlords, but never mention the problems good landlords have with a small proportion of tenants. Our last lot did no major damage but there were minor problems everywhere. I had over 200 items on the "annoying minor fix" list. Plus a loft FULL of rubbish.
Weirdest thing - the dresser doors came out in my hands - they'd removed the screws?
I think I've learned that there are 1% tossers in every sector of society.
Cheers to all
Bristol (hopefully one of the 99%)
The rental gods must be shining on me.
Three rentals all good tennents 1 =same tennents since I have owned it haven't put the rent up in 3 years 2 is the second Tennent been there 2 years now . The last is a grannyflat I just built at my house 75 year old widow and her disabled 42 year old daughter they are so quiet I never know if they are home or not.
Find good tennents and do all you can to.keep them.
I use to have one in the country nothing but trouble and to far away to keep an eye on.
Had one of those with a big dog, poor thing was bored off his brain while they were away at work, so he did a bulldozer job in the sandy soil. Built a good sized dam and completely undermined the footings. I needed an end loader for half a day to get the back yard level again. He left with a months rent owing so I was not impressed with the rental agent.
No property, just shares now so only myself to blame if I stuff up. Bliss.
Select to expand quotesunycoastguy said..
Especially when your on a swing mooring, So many trips back and forth
you forget your oars
or measure something and forget to take the measurement home. 
Or you have to get out of crapped position and struggle out so you can slide the washer towards the bow under the motor to pick of the washer then struggle back into where you started and on the way you bump your screwdriver and repeat the process.
Then you struggle back onto your hole again and then some one knocks of your hull for a social call . 
Down here the weather is a pain Id tried to paint my old boat since last easter still not completed on deck.
weekend warrior for the last 21/2 years but you don't always get two days every weekend .
Or if your a silly old man like me sometimes you like a imaginative idea and waste time and money off off the topic stuff Ha Ha
