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08-12-2009, 23:13
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#121
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Panama City, Panama
Boat: Fraser 41
Posts: 22
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You just filled up a water bladder at a gas station because all the dock water lines are frozen.... and smiled about it...
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09-12-2009, 01:45
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#122
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Indonesia
Boat: custom built aluminium, 60ft - FAST FORWARD
Posts: 45
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this is great!!!
whilst passing through places like the Tuamotus, Vanuatu and Indonesia.... you know you're a cruiser when get REALLY REALLY REALLY excited about finding a good head of lettuce or perfect tomato!!
you know you're a cruiser... when you've finally found the perfect bread recipe!
you're definitely a cruiser.... when you decant your "box wine" into a more socially appropriate vessel like a glass bottle!
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12-12-2009, 12:56
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#123
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Morlaix Brittany France blog: theguerns.blogspot.com
Boat: Colvic Watson/32ft/Feels Good
Posts: 461
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Ha! Ha! our family
5 ducks ,Chalket,sambo.Henry,Lester and BJ
2 African Geese Sage and Chriatmas
1 Young Swan femail Dolly
Visit at 0600 breakfast, 1200 lunch 1700 dinner and 2000 supper then sleep by the boat all night making funny noises by our bunk yes we live aboard and love our children
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13-12-2009, 17:29
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#124
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: annapolis
Boat: st francis 44 mk II catamaran
Posts: 1,212
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You pick out and decorate your Christmas tree with windage and stability first, aesthetics second.
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15-12-2009, 11:41
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#125
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Boat: Currently boatless
Posts: 643
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I have been enjoying this thread for a while and I had two "liveaboard moments" lately that I thought I would share. Both, strangely enough, toilet related items.
You know you are a liveaboard when you have minor panic attack because the toilet is 3/4 full of water and then you realize you are at Starbucks and it is normal for toilets to have gallons of water in them.
You throw your (used) toilet paper in the trash and then realize you are at a restaurant...in Canada.
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17-12-2009, 14:44
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#126
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: West Coast, BC , Canada
Boat: Cascade
Posts: 595
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Livia
You throw your (used) toilet paper in the trash and then realize you are at a restaurant...in Canada.
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Isn't that what everyone does up here??
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18-12-2009, 11:19
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#127
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Nassau, Bahamas
Boat: 1985 Seidelmann 37 - s/v Bright Eyes
Posts: 94
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this thread is great!
...if you freak out when your friends turn on thier water faucet and walk away.
...if everyone you talk to starts the convo off with "so hows the boat?" (my favorite response: "still floating")
...if you buy a nice mattress pad and then immediatly cut it into a triangle
...and then try to use the leftover corners
...if you get dressed twice in morning (once before shower, once after)
...if you own the cheapest waterfront property!
...if you dont wash jeans (as a cruiser once put it "lets be realistic here")
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26-12-2009, 07:14
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#128
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dover, UK
Boat: Ex liveaboard, now grounded.
Posts: 66
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....you can prepare and cook a full meal for two and undertake calculations and diagrams on large-size paper and check the status of your dwelling's power supply and turn on interior and exterior lighting and use a radio to call your landlord about next week's arrangements and find a book that tells you how to ask 'Ou est le disposal sanitaire?' in a foreign language and start the engine - all without getting up from your seat.
....your regular trip to buy food, or indeed, anything, involves a large backpack and a dinghy ride and a mile walk through woods and a two mile walk along lanes to a bus stop and a 20 minute bus ride to town and you still think it's better than owning a car.
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26-12-2009, 07:42
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#129
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dover, UK
Boat: Ex liveaboard, now grounded.
Posts: 66
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....when you're really happy about finding an up-river anchorage that, with just a 40 minute dinghy ride, will let you do both your shopping and officially sanctioned sewage disposal in the one outing.
.....when, in high summer, you realize everyone in the supermarket is staring at you wondering why you are dressed, complete with large rubber boots, like a fireman after a mud-wrestling contest.
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26-12-2009, 07:51
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#130
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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great thread
Your pet fish doesn't live in a fish tank but in your backyard (slip). My pet fish is a sheepshead, his name is "igor" (from Young Frankenstien) BTW- he now has a girfriend - ah love is in the air
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26-12-2009, 08:15
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#131
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Brockville,Ont.
Boat: Mirage 25 "Garfield"
Posts: 137
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You might be a liveaboard if you can't pass a public washroom on the way back to the boat without thinking "I should go in and try".
Phil
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30-12-2009, 18:45
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#132
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,455
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You might be a liveaboard if you're just hanging out here....
...or there....
'take care and joy, Aythya crew
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02-01-2010, 12:06
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#133
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Port Ludlow, WA (NW corner of Puget Sound)
Boat: 30' William Atkin cutter
Posts: 1,496
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You might be a liveaboard if you are reluctent to spend quarters when paying for something even when you have a pocket full of quarters
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04-01-2010, 12:45
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#134
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfenzee
You might be a liveaboard if you are reluctent to spend quarters when paying for something even when you have a pocket full of quarters
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That is so true! My sister says I guard quarters like its the Hope diamond
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04-01-2010, 13:21
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#135
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Annapolis, Bahamas
Boat: 1983 Gulfstar 36
Posts: 1,253
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"3 squares a day" is in refference to toilet paper
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