Oh, cock.

[puddingcat]

We've been allocated a boat in the Sailing Challenge.

It's less of a gin palace than a meths shack. It's 37' and has 3 double beds & a double sofabed between 8 of us. Somehow, we have to fit stuff for a weekend *and* a Gala Dinner in, not to mention the beer.

I thought yachting was supposed to be glamorous? What happened to the jacuzzis and James Martin? They're supposed to be standard equipment!

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[nannyo.livejournal.com]

hmmmm, yachting and glamour are not things I associate with each other necessarily. Thing Ellen Macarthur rather than Brigitte Bardot... Also, remember to pack ginger biscuits. I suffer terribly from seasickness, in a family that loves boats. I have the wristbands and the root ginger to prove it!
However, once you've gotten over the sickness and the smell of the "head", there is almost nothing as glorious as coasting along by windpower, and plotting compas courses. You'll love it, it's physics in motion.
N.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

But I'll have to share a bed with someone I work with!

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Eeeew.

And take a hot water bottle. Even if you're going to be sailing through the earth's crust, it's always freezing on boats at night. Unless you can share a berth with someone who generates a lot of warm air while they sleep.

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

I don't mean earths crust do I? No. I should have said something like sailing into the sun.

[dr-wez.livejournal.com]

You'd have to pull off some pretty hardcore tacking to sail into the sun, I think.

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

It's a nautical thing to do with the magnets that pull the bunnies into the atmosphere at the neap and fall tides rather than any sailing thing I think.

[dr-wez.livejournal.com]

You're confused; "neap!" is the noise bunnies make when propelled into the atmosphere (or anywhere else, for that matter) at speed. Any sailor worth his salt(*) knows that.

(*) It's just occurred to me that that term probably comes from the time when salt-miners being feeeelthy rich.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

If I take a hot water bottle, I'll be the only warm person and EVERYONE will want to share with me O.o

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, not ideal. Mind you, you won't want to take any clothes off anyway, and everyone else will smell of salt and engine oil and stuff... COuld you develop some distressing personal habits before then? So they let you have a bunk to yourself, and they all cram into the double bed?
N.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

There won't be room. Every bed will be full, since the Skipper gets one to him/her/itself.

Argh!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Not good. *looks around*
I could probably just about stand sharing a twin room in a nice hotel with a few people in here but a double bed? *shudders* jonnyargles was bad enough. :oP

Take your own sleeping bag so you generate your own heat and won't give it to anyone else.

[dr-wez.livejournal.com]

Sounds cosy. You could take Dean Martin instead, I think I may have him on CD somewhere.

Standard equipment traditionally involves sails, a hull or two, and about sixteen kilometres of rope, one jumbo bottle of unidentifiable spirits and a spinnaker.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

We're all accountants, so one bottle of spitrits will do half of us one evening.

Why has all the rum gone? That's why :)

[dr-wez.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. Why would you share the spirits?

[indochine-uk.livejournal.com]

As long as you have beer. Vodka is a more viable option if I'm honest though.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, there'll be beer. Drinks are included in the price :) And I agree with you; vodka is better, unless you're just after one pint for the flavour of the thing.