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05-25-2017, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,274
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What your "Trawler" says about you...
Just a little humor for you enjoyment...
Bruce
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05-25-2017, 02:24 PM
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Guru
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 519
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Made my laugh thanks, I'll be headed down to the 'yacht' better known as the ongoing and never ending project to work on it this soon today, after I finish the pre work in the garage. Can't say I ever thought of myself as rich.
Craig
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05-25-2017, 03:50 PM
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Guru
City: Seaford Va on Poquoson River, VA
Vessel Name: Old Glory
Vessel Model: 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 2,264
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Capn Craig
Made my laugh thanks, I'll be headed down to the 'yacht' better known as the ongoing and never ending project to work on it this soon today, after I finish the pre work in the garage. Can't say I ever thought of myself as rich.
Craig
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Yeah, I am rich in work I need to do on the boat too. And it seems everything I do on it is temporary.
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05-25-2017, 04:39 PM
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Senior Member
City: LAFAYETTE,LA
Vessel Name: Relenti
Vessel Model: Atlantic 30, 1983
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 451
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Dang! I didn't know I was rich. Of course I only have 2 decks plus a bilge-so I must not be that rich
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05-25-2017, 04:42 PM
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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I believe nearly every person on TF is only experiencing 1st world lives. I call that being "rich" - enough!
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05-25-2017, 05:40 PM
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Guru
City: St Augustine,Fl
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 3,798
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Lol, the owner of that yacht misses the boating experience, for better or worse. My life has been spent in the doghouse diaries area...
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05-25-2017, 05:44 PM
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Guru
City: Gig Harbor
Vessel Name: Kinship
Vessel Model: North Pacific 43
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 9,046
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ddalme
Dang! I didn't know I was rich. Of course I only have 2 decks plus a bilge-so I must not be that rich
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No you were rich...
...then you bought a boat.
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05-25-2017, 07:54 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,565
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Yup. Trawlers. A real babe magnet...
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RTF
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05-25-2017, 08:21 PM
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Guru
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 519
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RT you the man with a sense of humor I got the boat today and the dancing babes missed there stage call Damn!
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05-25-2017, 08:47 PM
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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If I tell folks I have a trawler, they ask "How's the shrimp running"?
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05-25-2017, 09:03 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Au Gres, MI
Vessel Name: Black Dog
Vessel Model: Formula 41PC
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 21,187
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Every non boater thinks all boaters are rich...
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05-25-2017, 10:24 PM
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Guru
City: Tri Cities, WA
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 4,406
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Yeah, but we all know better, don't we.
When people talk about my "yacht" I not-so-gently tell them that it's not a yacht, it's a boat. Then I tell them that my definition of a yacht is one where there is a paid crew, and my crew works for wine.
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Mike and Tina
1981 Boston Whaler 13'
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05-26-2017, 07:18 AM
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,743
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Get a grip guys.
Having a trawler says you are almost certianly an old man.
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North Western Washington State USA
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05-26-2017, 07:55 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Chicago, IL
Vessel Name: Bay Pelican
Vessel Model: Krogen 42
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,993
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GFC
Yeah, but we all know better, don't we.
When people talk about my "yacht" I not-so-gently tell them that it's not a yacht, it's a boat. Then I tell them that my definition of a yacht is one where there is a paid crew, and my crew works for wine.
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It is interesting how the language/ and languages change from area to area. We spend a lot of time boating with Brits and the common term for a pleasure boat is "yacht", no allusion to richness implied. It could reference a 28 foot day sailor or a 55 foot Nordy. The French frequently use a generic term for the same item, translated as pleasure boat, again no allusion to wealth.
We Americans frequently use "yacht" as a implication of a rich man's toy, and use "boat" as a shortening of "pleasure boat" as opposed to a navy submarine which is also a boat.
I guess if it mattered the Brits have it right, there is a class of boats used for pleasure (including non commercial fishing) which can be distinguished from other boats and they have a name for it, "yacht".
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05-27-2017, 08:55 PM
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Member
City: Victoria
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Comodave
Every non boater thinks all boaters are rich...
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You would be if you didn't have a boat.
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Nordic Tug 32
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05-27-2017, 10:00 PM
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Guru
City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,375
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
If I tell folks I have a trawler, they ask "How's the shrimp running"?
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For me the experience is a bit different, when people know I own a boat the dialog is looking like that:
- How big its is?
- 30 feet
- what kind of boat it is?
- A trawler
- ?????
L.
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05-28-2017, 01:13 AM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lou_tribal
For me the experience is a bit different, when people know I own a boat the dialog is looking like that:
- How big its is?
- 30 feet
- what kind of boat it is?
- A trawler
- ?????
L.
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On hearing I've a boat, the most frequent question is "do you fish?" When I answer "no" and it can't go faster than 8 statute miles an hour, they usually look at me as if I'm nuts.
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05-28-2017, 01:35 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,101
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lou_tribal
For me the experience is a bit different, when people know I own a boat the dialog is looking like that:
- How big its is?
- 30 feet
- what kind of boat it is?
- A trawler
- ?????
L.
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I just tell them we have a trawler style coastal cruiser, and they all look knowing and say..."aah"...so I assume no further explanation needed, then they inevitably ask "how big", and I say 10.5 metres, or 34 odd feet, and it weights 11 tonnes. Then they say, "AAAHHH..!"
(That weight surprised even me, but was from the last haul-out. I thought about 9 tonne.)
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05-28-2017, 01:36 AM
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Guru
City: Seattle
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 3,312
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My boat is rich. I am poor.
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05-28-2017, 04:03 AM
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Senior Member
City: Jacksonville, FL
Vessel Name: Amar la Vida
Vessel Model: 1989 Carver Californian 48' MY
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 338
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Rich to me would be, having everything on the boat work as advertised all at once! I love when I have an issue with one thing then a week later that issue resolves itself and another pops up! ARRGH!!! HA HA
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