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by jaqui

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a good deal on a dream home.

http://yachtbroker.escapeartist.com/boats/action/view/boat/84/"

actually, I'm working on designing my own.
but living on a yacht is definately the way to go.

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by gadgetgirl

fffwwwooow!

that's a real goody! Puts my 1928 ex Thames tug to shame, but to me she's beautiful, even if she's not an oil painting.

One of these days, I WILL figure out how to get her foto on my blog....promise!

Here in the UK, we pay mooring fees by the foot, so that one would be pretty pricey!

If you're serious about designing your own, feel free to ask questions (Him On Board is a marine sparky) and if you need any feedback, you know where I am.

ok, have to stop drooling now, keyboard getting dribble-logged.....:D

GG

by jaqui

do have something in common. ;)

I'm using a 3d modelling app to create a model for what I want... going S.W.A.T.H.

the moorage is the same worldwide, by the foot.
here though, for a mere $500.00 Cdn we can go with roadstead instead of finding a morring berth that will handle the dimensions I'm aiming for.

45 meters loa with a 15 meter beam.

being swath, a deep draft by default. wanting to go with asipods. ( 4 )

and use a fuel cell system with solar panels for topup for main power supply. backup would be diesel genset.

the modelling app I"m using has the layers, which will allow for export into usable dxf to get blueprints printed up.

me maternal gandda was a marine mechanic... spending time with him on his own boats as a child has paid off in knowledge usefull for this hobby project.

the Cora Marie, when I first saw her listed 4 years ago was at an asking price of 1.3 million USD Firm. dropped to 850 thou USD Firm.
she's been on the market for 6 years.

by gadgetgirl

that in another 6 years you'll be able to afford her?!

Boat prices can be so silly. Downright extortionate. I can see why you want to build your own. As a hobby, how long do you think this will take you to do?

You got a Gandda too?! Both my ganddas were sea faring, not sure what Pa's dad was but Ma's dad was an engine room artificer. (Crikey, had to concentrate when typing that one!)

Word to the wise - keep an eye on local legislations as to what you can, do, keep, store on board. It's an absolute minefield, and well worth knowing. Had we known about the ecological EU bit on waste tanks, we could have built one in instead of being left with one of those stupid, silly, illogical, useless, aggravating chemical jobs...

What? No, I DON'T like them!

GG

by Member 25348569

Google for Sunseeker XS2000 for my weekend 60kt poodling around the harbour and a Sunseeker Predator 108 for the longer jaunt.

There was a Predator (a baby 61, not a 108) on sale in Brighton Marina for around ?500K for a while last summer. As we can talk the talk (salty sea dogs) and clean up quite respectably, we got a guided tour and were bullshittin pretty close to a test cruise. The day it left, we all cried...

by Member 25348569

Oh! I do wish.....

Alas, I could not afford to fill the fuel tank on a Predator 108 (11,000 litres diesel @ 46p!!). And, I must admit, I like the idea of three x 2000HP and a nice cruise at 45kt - not the pathetic little two-engine version!

by jaqui

I'm not into the areodynamic zero deckspace modern designs. I like the classic designs.

open deckspace, so you can sit out and relax instead of being cooped up inside. ;)

it's all about style, not speed. :)

by gadgetgirl

the boat that Him On Board was assessing yesterday! Old-ish wooden hulled boat, about 64ft., was like a Tardis on the inside, and had an aft deck you could hold a disco on!

I could tell he was taken with it - he talked about this "Aramis" all night, and even threatened to swop Phoebe for her!! (and that's saying something!)

Unfortunately, some clown has been at Aramis, resulting in an approximate ?5k just for the rewire.....

GG

by Member 25348569

it will do. I do agree that it's not [b]all[/b] about speed and I'd be quite happy with a 30kt cruising speed...

At the moment, I own a 3m inflatable with a 8hp engine - top speed 18kt with me lying flat and steering with my fingertips on a dead calm sea - so leave me my dreams.

by jck

I can get 25 acres of land and build 4000 sq ft down here that doesn't roll and pitch for that much money.

I'll stick to being a land-lover...thanks :)

by jaqui

get that comfotable home, on the seafront, without the huge heat in summer freeze in winter.
( being on the water is always cooler in summer )

and you do get those nasty things called property taxes... and run the risk of the local authorities siezing your property so a developer can put a pay parking lot on it.

( if they tried you could up anchor and go )
if you register in a different country, like china, then they try boarding without permission and you can legally shoot them... when you are "at sea"

might not be a good idea.. after all the us navy and coast guard take a dim view of people taking pot shots at them. ;)

by jck

I currently live within 2.5 miles of the coastline...generally stays 3-7 degrees cooler at my house than at my office inland 15 miles further.

5 minute drive to the water.

So...why pay $1-2M for a house on the water that is gonna have sky-high insurance and get blown away by the 1st Cat 2 hurricane...when I can get the same house for $450k inland on an elevation high enough to take Cat 5 storm surge and still be a nice bike ride distance from that beach area?

And...I live in FL...where...Miami sees snow about every 125 years...Tampa sees it about every 60...last snow was 1978 here...and it rarely gets over 100F inland here, let alone at the coast. e.g.- yesterday, it was 94 at my office...90 at my house.

Pay parking lot? where I live? hahaha...tallest building near me is...4-5 stories? You've lived in a metro too long, jaqui...go see some trees in Saskatchewan.

BTW...if they were trying to sieze your boat and you up anchor, you're just adding a charge here in the states...plus getting harsher treatment from a judge because you weren't cooperative. But, I guess smugglin all that BC pot around necessitates fleeing from the law, eh? hehe :D

by jaqui

I figure I'll take another year just to get thelayout done for the model.
adding in the wiring, plumbing...
a year after that.

blackwater dumpinmg is illegal, fortunately there are facilities to pump the tanks all over the area, including a mobile unit that will come to you.
( when anchored in the roadstead )

my pa's was working for hydro, the transit department, back when they ran the transit system.

my ma's was a ships engineer / mechanic, one of his last jobs was to put brand new engines into a police boat that was getting retired.. into a museum. ( the St. Roch )

I'm only about 15 minute walk from local coast guard station, easy to keep up on the changes in regs.

show "He that is Aboard" the cora marie. >:)

9' draft, 1400 gallon diesel tanks cruise at 12 knots.
it would take a couple of months but a crew of 4 could run her over there for ya. :)

though, after being at doc for 6 years waiting for sale, there will be a fair bit of work to get her seaworthy, even though she went from refit to dock. the cosmetics will be okay, but no way would I even think if taking her for anything longer than a hour straight run in harbour until after going over absolutely everything... not even to bring her from Nanaimo to Vancouver. ( about 1'35" in protected waters)

by jaqui

cruise at 12 - 14 knots.

relax, enjoy the view.
take the chance to slow down from societie's headlong rush into oblivion.

by jaqui

here the nudist beach is right near the new home for the shipyards that built the Cora Marie...
and it's right near UBC.
( about 150 feet below one of the girls residences actually. )

by gadgetgirl

would you know a piece of information like that?? :O

And does your wife know that you know??

And what do I get for not telling her that you know???

]:)

GG

by jaqui

would I be worried?
take trolley to ubc, walk past sign saying womens residence to get to the stairs going down to the beach.

( not to mention that one of my bdsm playmates from before getting married was living in there )

by gadgetgirl

I realised that, that's why I edited instead of googled!

(Understand - this is NE England, it's around 80 degrees, hot, sunny, stifling, I'm not good in heat, it's nearly hometime, it's nearly friday, and why this part of the UK has suddenly turned into the tropics and fried my brain, I have no idea....)

GG

by gadgetgirl

Neil, (pal, buddy, mate, mucka)

bdsm?

Can you please hurry up with that program that turns americanisms into worms and tentences wot I can understood?!

Jaqui - will reply when I understand the statement!!!

GG

by gadgetgirl

it's hometime for me!

Woohoo!

Cold can awaits in the fridge, and I can't wait to wrap myself round it - literally! Need it to subdue the heat rash!

Don't work too hard!

GG

by jaqui

I don't start until 3:30 pm here.

my contract has me starting my work week at 3:30 pm today.. for next four daya.. then it's weekend ( monday and tuesday next week. )
me going back to bed for a bit more sleep now. :)

by Member 25348569

I believe, and this is only from a theoretical viewpoint you understand, that is is bondage and sado-masochism.

If I've got it wrong jacqi then [b]please[/b] correct me. As I know a few Goths, I suspect that I've not.

:D

by maxwell edison

.
(In my best Crocodile Dundee imitation.)

That's not a yacht.....

.....this is a yacht.

http://www.yachtcrew-cv.com/paulallen.htm

Be sure to download the Powerpoint presentation, to which a link is provided about half-way down the page.

Look for:

"Download The Octopus Powerpoint Presentation Here. This file is a 3.3mb file size, complete with nearly 50 slides of this awesome yacht. In order to see the file you must have powerpoint on your computer."

by jamesrl

Thats a cruise ship not a yacht.

If you need a crew of 60, you aren't commanding a boat, you are managing a crew. You don't get the pleasure of doing all the little things. And you can't just drop anchor anywhere you please, you have to plan things far in advance - wheres the fun?

James

by jaqui

bdsm=
Bondage
Discipline / Domination*
Sadism / Submission*
Masochism

* these two sections caryy the double meaning, as for some it is the control, for others it's the pain. the spectrum of it ranges from tickling your partner, to heavy beating that leaves bruises. as well as a voluntary giving of complete control to a voluntary giving of some control.
The specifics of any pairing are very much a contractual negotiation, and are in a constant state of change. ( as the partners get to know each other better, the trust and respect grows, altering the intensity that they are confortable with during play.

playing ( commonly called scening ) can be one partner picking out the clothing, deciding where and what will be for dinner, and can include using sex toys while going for dinner... this is why in bdsm, forepay can be for days before actual sex ensues. ;)

by jaqui

I never said go anywhere.
as long as you are not anchored, you are legally at sea, and are a country unto yourself.
it would be an act of war for them to board without permission.

by jck

I thought it depended on the country.

Plus, even if you are in the water off the USA coast and registered under a foreign flag, you are still subject to process of search and seizure being in American waters. The Coast Guard does it all the time.

It's only a declaration of war if they attack you. Not if they inspect your vessel.

by jaqui

still must obtain permission to board.
if you refuse, they refuse you right to enter port, unless you need repairs / supplies.
then you are kept under watch, onboard while the work is done in the roadstead.

and you are escorted out.

by jaqui

that's why no longer than 150' loa.
a bit of planning, but if designed properly only a crew of 4 needed.
( family ya know )
so you have the flex to anchor when and where you want, plus the size to head across the ocean.

besides the issue of, under international maritime law, you couldn't command a vessel that size, you need a professional to command her.

by gadgetgirl

for some unknown reason I thought it may have meant something different on t'other side of pond.

(Blinkin' foreigners corrupting the English language as wot she should be spoke like)

GG

by jaqui

I was taught the Queen's English in school as a lad.
I refuse to change my spelling to meet the "official" frechified version that canada is now calling english.

now, as far as expressions go.. knock me up in the morning sounds great, but boy when you have a pretty girl saying it does it ever take on a whole new meaning.

as in being knocked up is being gotten pregnant.

telly = television
phone = telephone

but that's them whacked out pommies for ya.. saying wierd things and getting terms confusled. ;)

by gadgetgirl

Whom do you know what spokes Queens English!

Whey, lyek, I divvn't. Awnly them posh suthun tat wot taak lyek that, man! ;\

(Would sincerely like to put an entire paragraph into Geordie, then a) watch your expressions as you try to read it and b) catch the soundbites as you try to pronounce it. Problem is I'd probably be accused of it being something gutterall or swillish anyway! ]:) )

As for regional accents....it appears that some are a dying breed....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4171644.stm

but I'm still hanging onto mine! (and the accent ;\ )

GG

by jaqui

I know, the danged brits are chasing them all over to canada.. and most seem to move to vancouver. :)
a few head down under.
but, stay in england and speak the queen's english? only if ya's gots a death wish boyo. :)

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