You Might Have a Project Boat If...

[Panope]

When your boat has been in your driveway for half of your lifetime.

[David_Old_Jersey]

Originally Posted by Ex-Calif

At the risk of some painful poking fun...

You might have a project boat if...

- You have redone at least one perfectly good job - simply because you were not quite happy, despite having other jobs where the time and effort would have been better spent.

- You don't keep an eye on the weather forecast.

- You have re-dedicated your Nav area for tool storage / a workbench.

- You have more plans to do stuff onboard than you have once she is finished.

- Your everlasting refit is a standing joke - even to yourself .

[Blue Crab]

- Two years into the refit you remember the PO saying "it could be in the water in a week."

-The garden hose is permanently plumbed to the intake strainer to run the diesel.

-Forgotten where the deck hardware bolts go.

-Have acquired 7 anchors but still don't have a foresail.

-Have considered making a trimaran "houseboat" with those big blue plastic barels.

- Getting your shots means your yearly flu shot.

-People have stopped asking when you're leaving.

[sailorboy1]

- birds nest in/on your boat and you fgure that's OK, someone should get some real use out of it!

- you tell people how you haven't had ANY bottom foulng for years

[sarafina]

...You have been saying "the haul out is in 2 or 3 weeks" for six months... And you really REALLY mean it this time!

[atoll]

Originally Posted by Ex-Calif

At the risk of some painful poking fun...

You might have a project boat if...

- You build a permanent deck around it on the hard
- You have a mast but just don't know where it is right now
- You don't have any sails but that is OK, they are last on the "to-do" list
- Your tools needed list is longer than your to-do list

others?

you need a jackhammer to get the old engine beds out!

[Matt sachs]

I have a deck around, and built a barn over, the boat. May I please be added to the project boat list. :-) While your at it put me on the wannabe list to.

[GeoPowers]

...Your boat gets pulled off the beach by a bunch of volunteers...

Frank

[Anzo]

You notice the invoice for the expensive electronics you're about to install is dated 2002.

[Matt sachs]

I have lost my mizzen mast in the weeds behind the house.

[zeehag]

when you cannot for the life of ye find that lil leak that always drips onto your face, no matter where you sleep.......light fixtures only work occasionally--when no rain falls..

[Panope]

You need to use antifoul paint on your decks to keep moss from growing.

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by Panope

You need to use antifoul paint on your decks to keep moss from growing.

that danged goat--was spozed to eat that stuff---what a slakker....

[Bash]

you don't have a copy of this year's tide tables.

[nautical62]

As I looked at the entire plumbing system, the entire electrical system and half the cabinetry laying on the ground next to the boat, it was clear it was a project boat.