Single Men Living Aboard and Cruising... an honest look.

[cyan]

Originally Posted by weavis

Yah cant faze the big guy... Its a fine line between keeping the rules from the mods and the CF boys and girls. Ive put my neck on the line for youz all already so throw in boating related stuph and move away from the deep introspective posts that make my sacrifice worthless will yah?



I was serious about the diesel smell... In this day and age we should be able to have an older but tight diesel engine and contained smells..... but one leak somewhere and its a major cleanup.



bummer.

I realize diesel fuel is way off-topic in this thread, but I'm quite interested in this. I once saw the aftermath of a gasoline fume explosion in a wakeboard boat. Let me just say it was horrifying. Apparently the owner started the inboard engine after forgetting to run the engine compartment fan for a while. Every time I smell diesel, I remember that scene. I'll take the diesel fumes any day. Just TRY to explode those fumes.

[gamayun]

OK, big peace sign to Cyan and Pelagic. If you feel me digging in, it's just because I'm half French and I love the passionate side of any argument (not the hard feelings side). So, really, it's all in good jest. This thread has never (really, never) made me mad or upset. I have rolled my eyes quite a bit, but that's different.

Fuentes, I lose my tools all the time right after I had just set them down. Has taken me 30 minutes sometimes to find them again within a 5-foot-square area. One time I lost my phone on the boat a whole day. How does one call oneself? Finally found it buried under a rug I had moved around. I must say....those roll up tool pouches are the best thing since sliced bread. Still doesn't prevent me from losing the tool as soon as I pull it out of its pouch. That's the whole other problem.

[Pelagic]

Same hear Cyan..... I have a mechanic friend with a fast ski boat in Puerto Galera, professionally built with a large 8 cylinder inboard gasoline engine.

The boat was tied up at the floating bar while we had lunch with a bunch of girls.

Coming back and then going to run around to the yacht club just as I sat on the engine cover I said, "I smell gas"
Too late, All I remember was being blown off the boat along with the engine cover.
I was lucky, quite a few who were in seats got nasty burns.

He had just replaced a fuel/water sensor which failed internally.

Give me diesel any day!

[cyan]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

Same hear Cyan..... I have a mechanic friend with a fast ski boat in Puerto Galera, professionally built with a large 8 cylinder inboard gasoline engine.

The boat was tied up at the floating bar while we had lunch with a bunch of girls.

Coming back and then going to run around to the yacht club just as I sat on the engine cover I said, "I smell gas"
Too late, All I remember was being blown off the boat along with the engine cover.
I was lucky, quite a few who were in seats got nasty burns.

He had just replaced a fuel/water sensor which failed internally.

Give me diesel any day!

Holy guacamole, Pelagic!!
Glad you came out alive!
Diesel it is.

Now if only I can solve that pat-pat-pat noise problem. I'm one of those sailors who religiously avoids the engine, and then I hang my head in defeat when I use it outside of the marina. Alas, the ITCZ can be beautiful, but not for weeks at a time.

[daletournier]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Ouch, Cyan, dude. Are you sure she's so miserable and needs a full-time mate and would go back to her meek, mild self if she could just to get a guy? Seriously, I don't want to beat a dead horse here and get a repeat of the last 1500 posts, but there's something to be said about meeting men and dating on one's own terms, and not compromising oneself. Of course, I can easily argue a bit against myself by saying that "balance" is a trait that's often missing from many successful people's lives, and the lack of it can lead to much misery, too.

Few obtain success via balance. No Olympic gold medal was ever won by the athlete being "balanced", he/she was obsessively determined and it comes at a cost.

This applies to business as well. I know for myself business changed me or I changed in order to become "successful", this is not owned by just one gender,and it's neither good or bad, it just is.

There's always a cost, move ahead if your willing to pay the cost, don't if your not, unfortunately most don't realise they will pay a cost.

Someone mentioned passion earlier. I agree that many women want a passionate man but that also comes with a cost. A man that is successful and wants to sail around the world is generally not the same as the guy that mows his lawn every Saturday.

Women want the passionate guy but often find it easier having the domesticated version.

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by daletournier

SOME Women want the passionate guy but often find it easier having the domesticated version.

Not you, too, Dale! You were just about to blunder right back into that mess, but now you'll thank me for fixing it before Weavis whips us all with big wet noodles

[cyan]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Not you, too, Dale! You were just about to blunder right back into that mess, but now you'll thank me for fixing it before Weavis whips us all with big wet noodles

Wet noodles?
Ramen on the night watch!
The bomb.
Not the instant kind. Buy the noodles, but gotta make the broth yourself, using bones. Mmmm. Won't sail far without broth.

[daletournier]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Not you, too, Dale! You were just about to blunder right back into that mess, but now you'll thank me for fixing it before Weavis whips us all with big wet noodles [emoji3]

Lol... Thanks, saved me.

[weavis]

Consider yourselves all whipped with al dente noodles....

[wolfgal]

only have a second, got this deadline to meet... but wanted to thank everyone for making me laugh before i attack this translation!

in keeping with the theme of single men on boats, just want to tickle boatie real quick (Zee did say he was a good one, after all):

Boatie, you can wear your aftershave cause, as TALL as you are, i wouldn't be able to smell it anyhow. i'm more concerned about how many pickled eggs you'll bring along for the night watches. maybe there will be a good breeze to keep me from jumping overboard...

and real quick-like:

ok, i've had this idea for a while now to make a book for myself and (who knows) for sailors (i'm always trying to find ideas so to support myself out there)... but maybe we should start a thread and get everyone to contribute and then make our own CF book?

my idea came one day when i heard this sailor say that he had white smoke and couldn't figure it. after lots of checking-frustration, he finally saw that a very small amount of oil was leaking. a small amount of oil coming out means that air is getting in...

the idea for the book (or thread) is to go FROM the engine's symptoms: (black smoke, white, smoke, oil slick on water, sudden cut off, sputter out... tap, tap, tap... slow start, overheat but restart, overheat and no start, etc. (thank goodness diesel engines are pretty consistent creatures) and then work backwards TO the potential causes.

of course, there are the easy ones: if all shuts down including instruments and music, check the main switch on the panel...

but there are those problems where one works backward and checks the easiest thing first ... that can get a bit complicated. this is where i would like to be able to consult ...

sailorchic, hey girl, do you think all these wonderful and quirky old salts would help a bunch of solo-sailing chics make a book on it? where i'm good at inspiring people, and getting things to move forward, someone like you really knows the stuff. and gamayun, you seem like the kind of gal who can make things happen to the finished stage.

we could call it Sailorgirls' Guide to Figuiring Diesel Engines or something nifty like that

Sweet, huh?


ok, gotttto get to work!

cheers mates!

ChiChi

[wolfgal]

Originally Posted by Chichi

only have a second, got this deadline to meet... but wanted to thank everyone for making me laugh before i attack this translation!

in keeping with the theme of single men on boats, just want to tickle boatie real quick (Zee did say he was a good one, after all):

Boatie, you can wear your aftershave cause, as TALL as you are, i wouldn't be able to smell it anyhow. i'm more concerned about how many pickled eggs you'll bring along for the night watches. maybe there will be a good breeze to keep me from jumping overboard...

and real quick-like:

ok, i've had this idea for a while now to make a book for myself and (who knows) for sailors (i'm always trying to find ideas so to support myself out there)... but maybe we should start a thread and get everyone to contribute and then make our own CF book?

my idea came one day when i heard this sailor say that he had white smoke and couldn't figure it. after lots of checking-frustration, he finally saw that a very small amount of oil was leaking. a small amount of oil coming out means that air is getting in...

the idea for the book (or thread) is to go FROM the engine's symptoms: (black smoke, white, smoke, oil slick on water, sudden cut off, sputter out... tap, tap, tap... slow start, overheat but restart, overheat and no start, etc. (thank goodness diesel engines are pretty consistent creatures) and then work backwards TO the potential causes.

of course, there are the easy ones: if all shuts down including instruments and music, check the main switch on the panel...

but there are those problems where one works backward and checks the easiest thing first ... that can get a bit complicated. this is where i would like to be able to consult ...

sailorchic, hey girl, do you think all these wonderful and quirky old salts would help a bunch of solo-sailing chics make a book on it? where i'm good at inspiring people, and getting things to move forward, someone like you really knows the stuff. and gamayun, you seem like the kind of gal who can make things happen to the finished stage.

we could call it Sailorgirls' Guide to Figuiring Diesel Engines or something nifty like that

Sweet, huh?


ok, gotttto get to work!

cheers mates!

ChiChi

Oh! and of course we need ZEE and Gadagirl and WifeyB and all of the gals on here to contribute with their engine stories. Zee seems to have quite a few on hand for the book already!

[weavis]

I have a question for the lone female sailors.

For those of you that do not stay in a locale, and extend your horizons to parts new and thus out of your comfort zone, what sort of problems do you encounter from marinas etc, and the local male population?

[wolfgal]

Originally Posted by Chichi

Oh! and of course we need ZEE and Gadagirl and WifeyB and all of the gals on here to contribute with their engine stories. Zee seems to have quite a few on hand for the book already!

Forgive me Weavis (wet noodle time for me! ) for not taking you up on your proposition to speak about how we are perceived in ports and in marina's right now (i'll have time tomorrow or saturday), etc., but i have THIS boring yet urgent translation to do ..., and my mind has this idea that it cannot seem to stop being all excited about it. (enthusiasm is like popcorn on a hot skillet and not always a good thing!)



i'm thinking that, since SailorChic is the authority on the subject, having rebuilt her own engine in her cockpit (all that pink - wah!), a book like this should be called something like SailorChic's Guide to a Pink Engine or something to this effect... (she could surely use the extra bucks that would come from doing something once and get paid for many times... me too, actually... but i'm a good writer...when i slow down)

so yes, my mind is ALL excited about this idea, ready to scour through the posts, dig out the symptoms and then what the cause turned out to be (i really like learning about diesel engines!), then submit resumes of the incident to be commented upon by an authority and then categroized according to the symptom - each symptom could have stories at the end, stories submitted to widen the contexts.... sometimes it is climate/temperature related, sometimes it has to do with what we last changed (say an oil filter), sometimes it is specific to an engine
type (like a Yanmar or Nanni or whatever), . CF is a landmine of info... and is so much more personable than a user's manual ... a little index at the end could be included to refer to specific engine types...

the very fist page would include a list of tools that one best have on hand just for engine fixing.

Sweet, huh?

ok, i'm going to breathe a bit and chomp on another raw carrot (to get myself to settle down a bit - it has always been this way)

(hoping i will not get a double-whammy of Weavis' home-made al-dente noodles)

any comments on this Weavis?

anyone else think this is a good idea?

please wish me luck with my less interesting work...

[Three Sisters]

Originally Posted by 2hullvenus

I get the gist and agree mostly, but strongly disagree on meeting women "online." I'm not talking about online dating. That's a terrible way to do it. I meet mine on Snapchat, Instagram, etc... It's what your real life women are doing when they are looking into their phones all day.

It's more efficient than real life pickups because ypu can be targeted and not waste hours and hours looking around for ones you are attracted to.

Have you ever financed a team of professional boat builders building a 50ft high performance catamaran from scratch? If you have, I'm not sure where you are imagining I have issues with money. I have actually been traveling by plane and living in hotels in various parts of the country for a break from the boat this summer. My ducks are lined up like a mofo, friend, I'm just finding that this boat project doesn't seem to be lining up with what I want out of life (ie: not to waste it working on boat)

Bi George, I think I've got it ! Your own little honeymoon palace for your internet lovely and yourself.

And it's mobile without having to worry about scrubbing your bottom !
Think of it ! Pure bliss !

Just Breezin Along !

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[lancelot9898]

Originally Posted by weavis

I have a question for the lone female sailors.

I too have a question. Do any of you female sailors ever get back the east coast of the US(namely the Chesapeake Bay)? If so, maybe we could meet for coffee and do boat talk.