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05-04-2019, 10:13 AM
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Member
City: Charleston
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 7
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A new guy
Shipmates,
I have been bitten by a radioactive trawler bug.
Every chance I get, I'm reading about life underway on the Loop or hanging on a hook somewhere. My wife is a landlubber so I'm still working on her.
I look forward to continuing to learn from y'all.
Semper Gumby,
andy
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05-04-2019, 11:51 AM
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Guru
City: Reno, Nevada
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 1,175
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerSailor
Shipmates,
I have been bitten by a radioactive trawler bug.
Every chance I get, I'm reading about life underway on the Loop or hanging on a hook somewhere. My wife is a landlubber so I'm still working on her.
I look forward to continuing to learn from y'all.
Semper Gumby,
andy
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Welcome from a fellow forum newby, I recently joined after lurking for a few months.
I am in a similar boat (ha ha.) Except that my wife spent years in Alaska having to be aboard various sized vessels for work. If anything my job is harder, she already knows what she could be getting (back) into 
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05-04-2019, 02:18 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,024
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Greetings,
Welcome aboard. Mr. FS. If your wife's experience with boating has been with sail boats, I can fully appreciate her reluctance to "go there again". How about you rent a trawler for a week somewhere to show her it's not about cave dwelling, wet freezing cockpit ass and running around on a slippery deck fooling with strings.
If she's fully not on board, you never will be. At least not happily...
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RTF
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05-04-2019, 02:33 PM
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Senior Member
City: New Rochelle, NY
Vessel Name: Jerry Land
Vessel Model: Grand Banks/Alaskan
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 247
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Welcome aboard and good luck with living the dream.
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05-04-2019, 02:38 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Au Gres, MI
Vessel Name: Black Dog
Vessel Model: Formula 41PC
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 18,558
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Welcome aboard.
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05-04-2019, 02:45 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
City: St James City/Punta Gorda
Vessel Name: Charlie Noble
Vessel Model: 32 Nordic Tug
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 424
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Welcome, Good luck with your boat search.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, my wife would rather be on the water than almost anywhere else.
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The best way to find out is get her out on the ocean, because if anything is going to happen it's going to happen out there.
"Captain Ron"
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05-04-2019, 05:38 PM
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Guru
City: Miami Florida
Vessel Name: Possum
Vessel Model: Ellis 28
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 5,162
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Another one has seen the light! Welcome aboard!
The most important thing when choosing a boat is that it have the best anchor. Other members of this forum will be glad to guide you, just ask. 😉
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Parks Masterson
Retired from Hopkins-Carter Marine Supply
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05-04-2019, 06:28 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Seneca Lake NY
Vessel Name: Bacchus
Vessel Model: MS 34 HT Trawler
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 7,087
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Welcome aboard TF
Only suggestion is spend more time & effort having a good time and showing the wife it really can be fun vs trying to convince her anything else about boating.
Listen hard before you formulate the plans to have some fun.
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Don
2008 MS 34 HT Trawler
"Bacchus"
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05-04-2019, 07:53 PM
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Senior Member
City: Perth
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 374
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RT Firefly
Greetings,
Welcome aboard. Mr. FS. If your wife's experience with boating has been with sail boats, I can fully appreciate her reluctance to "go there again". How about you rent a trawler for a week somewhere to show her it's not about cave dwelling, wet freezing cockpit ass and running around on a slippery deck fooling with strings.
If she's fully not on board, you never will be. At least not happily...
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RT,
You really should be immortalised.
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Sea the swells out on the ocean
All a-movin' in a rhythm, If I didn't have to be here
I would surely be-ee there with them
song-'bali waters' from film-'morning of the earth'
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05-04-2019, 07:56 PM
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Guru
City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bogranjac1
RT,
You really should be immortalised.
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He is!
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05-04-2019, 09:19 PM
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#11
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,024
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RTF
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05-04-2019, 09:30 PM
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#12
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
Vessel Name: SONAS
Vessel Model: Grand Alaskan 53
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,235
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerSailor
My wife is a landlubber so I'm still working on her.
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Not sure you are allowed to call her "her."
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