Boat Appreciation Thread

@jbartus Whoops! I pasted the wrong one. That was supposed to be the header image (which it currently is)
Edit: and it is too late to edit…

@ELUNO ggwp

@f00l Should this be my next pet to try and pick up girls?! Instead of number of legs I should have been thinking about fins?

@ELUNO Better than spiders and snakes…
/image woman from Jaws

@compunaut What a catch!

@ELUNO Delicious

@RiotDemon It got better with each edit!

@ELUNO I had to go pick this one. The randomness wasn’t working in my favor.

@RiotDemon What would you fish?

@ELUNO cod, haddock, flounder, herring, crabs. At least that’s the ones I remember.

@RiotDemon Plenty of variety! Fresh fish is the best fish.

@ELUNO yep. Definitely. I don’t eat much fish now. Nothing quite compares.

@ELUNO Well, whatever floats your goat…

@Barney I don’t know if it was displaying correctly, but I have uploaded it instead. Such a perfect work of art.
Also, I see what you did there…

@ELUNO I’ll bite, why is it a perfect work of art?

@Barney The goat has purple-ish ears!

@ELUNO Pink.

@Barney
@ELUNO

@f00l takes the blame for
A weird correlation re
Mad goats and mad boats.

@ELUNO Ha ha! Nope, not me. No curly purple hair.

@Barney @ELUNO

I thought you have red hair.

@Barney

@ELUNO

None of those is a penguin…

@PlacidPenguin Ask @compunaut. Or maybe you should ask the 8ball.

@ELUNO Cheater!

@Barney @compunaut

/8ball Does @Barney have red hair?
As I see it, yes

@PlacidPenguin Cheater.

@Barney (I’m glad you didn’t notice the reflection…)

@Barney

Ironically, I didn’t have to shake the 8ball numerous times. This was the first response.

@PlacidPenguin
@Barney
@ELUNO

@f00l must take all blame
For curly hair that 's either
Quite red or purple.

@PlacidPenguin 8ball can’t make up its mind: different answers in different threads. Of course, I blame @f00l.

@compunaut

/8ball Are you giving different answers to different people?
My reply is no

@PlacidPenguin
/8ball Are you broken?
Outlook good

@compunaut
@f00l takes blame for the
Varying answers and all
Confusing results.

@CaptAmehrican

@CaptAmehrican But fine! Don’t share your boat experiences

@Kidsandliz

So were you there? Do tell.

@f00l Parade of sail, Amsterdam 2015… I only wish.

@Kidsandliz wow, what an impressive gathering. I wonder how many collisions were recorded.

@Kidsandliz

If you are in one of the smaller vessels, ok. But if you are in a larger one, in a crowded area or a parade, I’m assuming you need serious on-board skills?

Do many of the vintage sailing ships have motors for emergency use? Or is that only for the non-serious and wusses?

@f00l they have motors

@f00l and @kidsandliz has some serious skill too

@ELUNO zero

@f00l ships old enough not to have motors usually have a few tugs escorting them.

@CaptAmehrican I always see at least one collision on my way to/from work, and it never looks as crazy as that!

@f00l also @CaptAmehrican can captain these as well…

@CaptAmehrican
@kidsandliz

I knew you two were experts or at least semi-experts, and some others here know their ways around a sail. I am envious, because sailing is incredible if you know what you’re doing. Or at least it looks incredible, to those of us watching.

And my Dad’s father could have been quite useful as either captain or crew.

My own experience is pretty much limited to playing “sunfish pirate”.

@f00l hey now, there’s great fun to be had on a sunfish, don’t knock it! In some ways it’s sailing at its purest. It’s just you, your boat, a sail, and mother nature, no complications!

@jbartus

Various complications possible w sunfish.

Such as someone trying to ram you while someone else comes up from below and grabs you and and someone from another sunfish grabs the mast and tips the whole thing over, and once you are in the drink, the thieves right the sunfish and sail off.

Only thing to do is return the favor.

@f00l that’s not at all typical usage! xD

@f00l Right. A bathtub toy. LOL Of course I have owned in the past an international 14 sailboat that someone before me had capsized in an oil spill, filled all the space between the hull with foam to keep it from sinking due to leaks, red fiberglass was now brownish, delaminating… Loved that boat. You didn’t feel guilty not spit shining it. Sold it when I moved nearly 1400 miles to where the river had working lawnmowers in it in the summer (I nearly drove off the highway laughing when I saw that for the first time). And I owned a barnett 14 (sailboat) that I had to sell to pay for cancer. The barnett was in nearly perfect condition. My canoe, kayak, Hilo Mojo trailer (cute egg) and Nissan sunrader (1988 cool little RV) all had to go for the same reason too. I had bought all this stuff used and had a lot of fun with them.

@Kidsandliz
Sunfish: a bathtub toy, yes. But we, being stupid, played this little pirate game in the intercostal waterway which is a place where sharks hang out.

In fact not far from a beach where you could usually dig up shark’s teeth with little effort.

Dumb dumb dumb but fun.

@f00l I had an Ensenada 22 that was a fun boat, it would plane, but was not really safe to do so. Gin and a tiller, what more does a guy need.

@cranky1950 A side of lifejacket to go with the gin?

@Kidsandliz
Btw you seem to be or have been very serious about doing stuff in the water. How did you first get into it?

@f00l I grew up with a canoe that we could also sail.

We later ‘graduated’ to a Chrysler Mutineer; 15ft 400lb fiberglass hull w/ 150sqft of sail area. It felt like a racing boat to us, tho we were never in a club.

My brother still has that boat at his lakeside house in MI

Wikipedia told me that the Mutineer is still produced by Nickels Boat Works.

@rockblossom

@rockblossom we nearly hit one of those once. I am on bow watch. We are near a navy base in heavy, outgoing Friday rush hour boat traffic. A sub is in the water dead ahead. I tell captain. He says, “I don’t see it on the radar”. I say, “Duh… its a sub you’re not supposed to see it on radar”. LOL

@Kidsandliz they didn’t hail you or anything? You might not have seen them but I would have thought they’d be able to see you!

@jbartus It was rush hour on the river headed towards the bay - the channel headed downriver was packed, we were behind them and not going to hit them right then - there was room for us to get out of the way as we were way more maneuverable than they were (especially in that crowded space), people are supposed to know the rules of the road (it is often the small boats that do not know them and are more of a hazard). They would not have known who we were to call us specifically (not to mention they wouldn’t have known if we were on the “call” channel or another one), and you don’t usually do that when there is no immediate danger. Now we might maybe have hit them had not someone been on bow watch, but that was what bow watch is for - make sure the captain knows of a hazard ahead (radar is not the do all end all to avoiding hazards, although it is very useful, especially at night or in fog). The humor to me was the momentary lapse of the captain forgetting that subs have a coating to keep them from being picked up on radar - especially since we were right on top of a navy base that had a bunch of subs that we pointed out to passengers 3 times a day.

@Kidsandliz oh. Your initial comment made it seem to me like an immediate tack was required to avoid collision or something in which case I’d have figured they’d, at the very least, have someone up the tower with a megaphone bleating away at you.

@Kidsandliz Warships ALWAYS have the right of way. You were smart to have a bow watch, most smaller vessels just don’t follow good, safe rules. Great Job Mate!

@PlacidPenguin
/image goat penguin on a boat

@ELUNO

/image No goat. Just a penguin.

@PlacidPenguin Is that a penguin at Disneyworld?

@compunaut I’m pretty sure it’s a penguin pretending to be DEADMAU5 with the brim of a sombrero wrapped around its head.

@compunaut

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That depends. What does Disneyworld look like?

The closest I ever got was through @mfladd in April, though I don’t know if my request was fulfilled.

@PlacidPenguin my question is why there are penguins in Goat Simulator.

@jbartus I can see that, but I think my idea is funnier.

@jbartus

THAT’S what bothered you? Not what the person in orange is doing?

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy "placid boat"

/image placid boat

/youtube placid boat

@jbartus It’s an app that embraces its bugs

@PlacidPenguin yep.

@compunaut I know, I was a pre-order buy in on the original Windows release.

@RiotDemon nice! How fast can those really go?

@ELUNO racing ones go over 130mph. I think most people cruise anywhere from 20-45. I remember my brother saying that some people he knew have managed to fly around 70+ but that’s pretty scary. Water begins to feel like concrete at some point.

Even at the lower speeds, it feels fast. If you don’t have some kind of glasses/goggles, your eyes will water.

My brother put together his own boat. He bought an empty hull, engine, miscellaneous parts, and prop. He welded all the other stuff he needed to make the safety cage, the floor, the seat holders, the rudder, etc.

@RiotDemon I would be scared to ride a self-made boat, but at the same time, if you know what you are doing, it might actually be safer than letting who knows who do it.
Those are some pretty fast speeds, considering there isn’t a lot to hold you on the boat is there? Pretty much just the chair?

@ELUNO

@ELUNO there’s a little bar next to the seat to grab, haha. I’m sure the racing ones have something better, but at the same time, if your boat flips, you don’t want to be strapped in necessarily.

@RiotDemon I just looks so top-heavy, like standing up in a canoe. How does it feel IRL?

@RiotDemon In Rod Bar we trust!

@ELUNO I forgot to address the safety thing. I’m sure not everyone that does this kind of thing makes one very safely. My brother isn’t an idiot though, haha. Our dad worked on boats most of his life, of course his handiness rubbed off on us. My brother has been working as a machinist/welder for around 15 years. I’ll have to find the photos of the fishing boat they built together.

@compunaut I suppose since it’s a john boat, flat hull, it balances differently. You can see in the first photo I linked, the boat in front of us is very low in the water when it’s barely moving. It’s easy to walk around it, unlike a canoe. I’m not sure how easy they are to flip. I was never worried when riding around. The thing turns on a dime, but you don’t turn at full throttle, lol. Honestly it kinda reminds me of driving a go kart. Slow down before the turns, and crank the throttle right as you’re straightening out again.

@RiotDemon

That air boat is hot.

@f00l You mean hawt

@compunaut
I stand corrected. In an air boat I hope.

@RiotDemon I can tell! It looks pretty good in the picture! I wouldn’t be able to tell it was “home-made.”

@ELUNO just wait until I find the other boat photos. Not a big boat, but definitely doesn’t look home made either.

@compunaut @f00l the coolest part about going with him to the Everglades was that his friends have a camp out there. We ended up going frog gigging late at night. You could see the lights from the highway in the far distance, and the light they turn on at the camp, but that was it. No one was at any other camps that night. Looking at the starry sky was amazing. I hadn’t seen a view like that in years. Driving at night is crazy. The driver wears a head lamp to be able to see the frog’s eyes because they glow bright green (alligator eyes glow red!) As a passenger in the back, it’s a little disorienting because you can’t see anything except for where the driver is looking. I don’t know how the fuck they do it. Throttle, rudder, spearing frogs at the same time. It was definitely a fun experience.

@lordbowen

@Pamtha That seems more like a skyscraper laying on an aircraft carrier.
Whatever floats your boat!

@earlyre I just came here to do so, shocked as well.