If you drank on any boat I skippered i'd kick your arse.
drunk crew and 10 tons of sailing boat does not a happy couple make.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:09, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

We managed it a few years ago
on a very exciting boating holiday up and down the Thames. Did Locks and everything.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:11, Reply)

I bloody love canal holidays
And I don't care how gay that makes me
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:15, Reply)

The only thing that was shit about the holiday (apart from the weather, which is a given)
was that we took my friend's two teenage children and they moaned, argued and sulked the whole time.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:17, Reply)

*childless people of B3ta fist-bumps*

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:21, Reply)

I'm talking about a yacht, to be fair
not a gin palace. Boozing on motor boats is fine. Boozing on 40' sailing yachts is not. Way too much shit on them that can kill or maim you and you usually need at least a partially functioning crew as most aren't designed to be sailed solo
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:16, Reply)

I can assure you I'd be just as much use as a crewmate sober as drunk
Of those of us going, the most experienced sailors don't drink anyway. The daughters' boyfriends will mostly be giggling drunkenly and trading stories of their respective partners' mentalness.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:12, Reply)

if they don't drink they aren't experience sailors ;)
most of they guys I sail with go from sober to cunted within 14 seconds of getting a line on the pontoon.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:17, Reply)

Hahaha

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:21, Reply)

we used to charter for weekends a lot
£200 to victual the boat for 8 for two nights meant £50 on bread, ham, cheese and bacon and £150 on wine, gin and vodka. And that was just for the hour or two before you hit the pub.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:25, Reply)

That sounds fucking brilliant
I could very happily spend a week doing that
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:35, Reply)

Yachts aren't really expensive to charter
but getting skipper qualifications, which you need to charter, unfortunately is.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:40, Reply)

I'll stick to narrowboats then
Any twat can drive them
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:43, Reply)