What was the last boat you were on?

This is deeply weird

@TickledLizard Well that’s just sad. How do you know if you get sea sick or not?

@matthew

Never had any reason to.

Just like I’ve never been on a plane.

@pitamuffin

I simply have no way of knowing if I would get seasick.

Never having flown is way less weird

@matthew

There would technically be more of a reason to go on a plane than a boat though.

Depends on your circumstances, I guess. For you, that could be. For mankind generally, definitely not.

@matthew @TickledLizard I think it depends on how you define “more reason”.

(Non-occupational) Reasons to travel by airplane:

• You have to get somewhere that you can’t reach by auto or other land travel
• Get someplace faster.
• A limited number of recreational fliers

(Non-occupational) Reasons to travel by boat:

• You have to get somewhere that you can’t reach by auto or other land travel
• Fishing
• Water-skiing, wake-boarding, tubing, etc.
• White-water rafting
• Canoeing
• Kayaking
• Sailing
• Parasailing
• Leisure boating / swimming
• Going on a cruise
• Using a ferry
• Rowing
• You are on an Ivy League sculling team
• (probably more that I am forgetting)

There are more individual reasons to be on a boat, but since there are plenty of people that have zero interest in boat-themed leisure activities, the efficiency of flying on a plane probably does apply to more Americans than all the boat reasons combined.

@TickledLizard that is very sad I will take you out on a boat if you want to go on boat’s everyday I was on two different boats today

@TickledLizard
Do you live anywhere near NYC? If so, do a round trip on the Staten Island Ferry sometime. Glorious.

@f00l

Sounds nice.

~35 miles away.

@DrWorm You forgot - work for the mafia - oh wait that is an occupational reason…

@matthew

I just realized something.
I WAS on a boat.
Once… When I was 10.

I’ll reduce my estimate for the depth of the weirdness of this accordingly.

@matthew

So you still think it’s weird.

Oh, it’s hellza weird

@matthew

Do you consider this weird?

Whoops, I mean this.

@brhfl Here you go… cheap and easy to build.

@spitfire6006006 also

@connorbush

@SSteve I wish I was on that boat.

@cengland0 BGT. See comment below.

@cengland0 Depends on who you are.
If you’re an Officer it’s a yacht or cruise ship.
If you’re enlisted it’s a canoe (crowded spaces).
If you’re an airdale it’s a [motor] boat. (Bubbleheads need not comment)

@Fish_Kungfu You motorboatin’ son of a bitch!

@plastrd Hahaha! ;-p

@nickiwhite BGT.

@OldCatLady Haze gray and underway. Or if you were a P3 sailor; Pointy at one end, blunt on the other, and you stand on the pier and wave goodby to them.

@Mehrocco_Mole That’s them! NAVSTA Norfolk for a few decades. Always a thrill to sneak onto the roof and watch the carriers come in.

@OldCatLady I was only in Norfolk for a couple of months before we shifted ports to Yokosuka, and left before she came back

@nickiwhite @oldcatlady I used to work (summer job) on the Norfolk Rover - that green tall ship with red sails that goes up and down the Elizabeth River, past the Navy base with the 3 hour tourist sails. And I sailed my 14’ sailboat in the little bay on Willoughby Spit on the one side of the Navy base (my friend’s dad owned the middle marina there). Interesting to sail by there.

One day on the tall ship I was on bow watch and ran back to warn the captain that we were about ready to run over a sub. He said, “I don’t see it on radar”. Duh. It’s a sub and it’s not supposed to show up on radar. The river can get pretty crowded and lots of blind spots with a tall ship (as well as a lot of small boats on schooner watch who’d get too close wanting to get a good look at us and forget to watch what they were doing while videoing or gaping and/or had no clue about the rules of the road). We’d joke we were going to purposely stab the bowsprit (spar that sticks out in front of the boat) through the sails of a small sailboat and take it home as a pet. LOL

@nickiwhite I was on U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln for three years. Right now, I work in King’s Bay. I hope to get a tour on a boomer one day.

@Luko26 BGT.

@OldCatLady I feel like subs don’t fit the ‘big’ or ‘gray’ part of that. Could fit SBT?

@hems79 at least they have the “some other option you’ll bring up in the forum” choice this time.

@awk wtf.
.

@Cheddy Passenger-only ferries are ferries.

@thismyusername

@anemones YEA!!! I have a captain’s license for the 100 ton ones and a mate’s for 200 ton.

@greengalore I voted “canoe,” but you jogged my memory. The last boat I was on was the Dixie in North Webster, Indiana.

@NICKDCJ7 all I see in that picture is a hole in the water in which to pour money.

@salaosantiago
While standing under a full-force cold shower.

@f00l While trying to dock with no lights, against the wind, with a strong current, murmuring ‘That’s pitch. That’s roll. That’s yaw.’

@OldCatLady

@katylava I think you meant PARTY BARGE

@katylava Ah yes, I saw Little Big Town in concert.

@thismyusername No good in the rain but wonderful LOL

@thismyusername Something tells me I don’t want to know what it smells like there.

@thismyusername now THAT is a party barge.

@beavsco Dude

@chr another PARTY BARGE fan

@chienfou We rented & sailed a 30ft boat for a week as part of a 4-ship flotilla in the Florida Keys about 20yr ago. The lead ship was 40 or 42ft and had a pro captain & chef. Our family were (are) experienced sailors, so we had full control of our boat, but always stayed in sight (and radio/walkie-talkie communication) of the lead. That allowed us to avoid any complicated navigation.
We later rented a similar boat for a week-long cruise around BVI
TL:DR: Love the barefoot/charter sailboat experience!
/image 40 foot sailboat

something like this

@compunaut Nice!

@2many2no Go Cardinals…

@chienfou Yeah, I used to like the football Cardinals, then they moved.
Oh, you mean baseball? OK, Go Blues!

Wait, I moved too.
Go Cowboys.
Go Rangers, Go Stars, Go Mavs.
Go Longhorns!

@2many2no
Atta!

/giphy Texas Longhorns

@2many2no I go back to the Bob Gibson, Tim Mc Carver, Curt Flood days…Left STL in '73. That was just my way of acknowledging I recognized the “boat” you had posted…

@chienfou It was a great place to grow up, but I rarely go back, just to see family. I left in 1972, courtesy of Uncle Sam.
It was a treat to see Stan the Man at the old Sportsman’s Park, the wood bleachers would shake like they were coming down when everyone started slamming their seats in time with La Cucaracha.

@f00l I love that giphy!

@2many2no Yeah, I grew up in Florissant and left in early 73 to move back to France with my parents. I then came back stateside and moved to Boulder CO when I found out my scholarships were cancelled since my parents no longer lived in MO and I was under 21 so no longer considered a ‘resident’.
Used to go see the Cards a couple of times a season when the Post Dispatch doled out tix for straight A students…Augie Busch was a great patron for STL.

@ELUNO Self love? OK for the Love Boat.

@2many2no

@ELUNO Not a boat, but because SRV.

@ELUNO

@ELUNO If you listen to CSN&Y you should “Love the one you’re with”…

@chienfou

@f00l Thanks… I was too lazy to look it up and post a link!

@ELUNO If we count this then I need to change my answer to the boats in Escape From Pompeii.

@earlyre My cousins were doing reenactment stuff on shore!

@CaptAmehrican So your answer is ‘yes’, is that right?

@OldCatLady well I have never been on a cruise ship.

@CaptAmehrican You on vacation or something?

@CaptAmehrican You only get on boats you can be the captain of?

@cranky1950 LOL

@cranky1950 First time I rode this it was called the 4 winds if the world and it was the pepsi pavillion at the ny world fair. Drove my father nuts, little did I suspect that he would get to gloat in about 20 yrs.

@heartny Purists like @Kidsandliz (and me, sometimes) would label her a ‘stinkboat’. She’s lovely, though.

@OldCatLady Stinkpot