You Might Be a Liveaboard - if . . .

[micah719]

Yes, but the sink is easier to reach and has warmer water.

[lane01]

If you’re out of quarters so you do a light load of your laundry while in the shower and admit it I’m not the only one who’s done this.

[piratesoul]

[QUOTE=unbusted67;297948]That is so funny, I literally spent an hour last night with our ducks. They are kind of sweet and kind of creepy.

You might be a liveaboard if you find yourself bleeding from random places at random times of the day.

I'd like to add to this: You can't remember how or when it happened, and think it's normal.

How about when you go into a public place and ask where the head is,
or you inadvertently give landlubbers directions based on port or stbd.

[moniia]

Thank you very much. All of you. Great joy to read this thread, managed* to do 4 last pages and looking forward to another 27. And looking forward to returning aboard (just 2 weeks!).

*before it was too hard to hold iPad while rolling on the floor laughing

[mub]

Got a new one..

You might be a liveaboard if..

You get out your winter boots and you find the laces missing. This tweaks a vague memory but you just can't place it.
Then when sailing a week or so later you find that a pair of your reefing lines look a lot like boot laces.
You settle back in the happy knowledge that the mystery is solved and the reef stays in the main.

Mub

[wolfenzee]

Originally Posted by lane01

If you’re out of quarters so you do a light load of your laundry while in the shower and admit it I’m not the only one who’s done this.

Figured I had enough for two loads (plus an extra quarter fort the heavy stuff) and enough for a shower.....do you know that there is a coin from Costa Rica that looks just like a quarter (when you are grabbing fist fulls of change and figuring what you have enough for in the dark)....so did two loads and no shower.
YMBALI: you think of shower time in terms of quarters and when you buy stuff in the store you try and get as many quarters as possible.

[MANUIWA]

When the outboard decides to start after the billionth pull

[GeoPowers]

Originally Posted by wolfenzee

Figured I had enough for two loads (plus an extra quarter fort the heavy stuff) and enough for a shower.....do you know that there is a coin from Costa Rica that looks just like a quarter (when you are grabbing fist fulls of change and figuring what you have enough for in the dark)....so did two loads and no shower.
YMBALI: you think of shower time in terms of quarters and when you buy stuff in the store you try and get as many quarters as possible.

Ah I remember the quarter shower days. Glad my current marina doesn't have that (yet), but it was good training for the kids to take quick showers.

Frank

[boating2go]

If your body hurts in places you forgot exists because you had to replace all battery cables while installing a new inverter because some nut PO had spliced different size cables together. You tried fixing the old head and again aggravated those same body parts that hurt originally because after 4 years of being a dirt dweller you are not used to the positions you have to get into to work on a boat!

[Bash]

Drawing inspiration from another thread currently active: you might be a liveaboard if you know precisely how many pairs of shoes your wife has snuck aboard.

[propellanttech]

Originally Posted by Bash

Drawing inspiration from another thread currently active: you might be a liveaboard if you know precisely how many pairs of shoes your wife has snuck aboard.

Should be:

If you've spent the night in a hammock, in the cockpit, during a gale, because you went snooping in your wife's shoe hiding place........

[Bash]

Originally Posted by propellanttech

Should be:

If you've spent the night in a hammock, in the cockpit, during a gale, because you went snooping in your wife's shoe hiding place........

Or maybe: ...last time you tried to adjust the packing gland, you discovered 15 pairs of women's shoes you'd never seen before.

[Lagoon4us]

Originally Posted by boating2go

If your body hurts in places you forgot exists because you had to replace all battery cables while installing a new inverter because some nut PO had spliced different size cables together. You tried fixing the old head and again aggravated those same body parts that hurt originally because after 4 years of being a dirt dweller you are not used to the positions you have to get into to work on a boat!

Why is it we fix other peoples ex-boats AAAAGGgghhhhhh!!!!!

[MysticGringo]

Originally Posted by Bash

Or maybe: ...last time you tried to adjust the packing gland, you discovered 15 pairs of women's shoes you'd never seen before.

With tags still on them...

[wolfenzee]

If half your books tell you how to do stuff "other people" hire someone to do