What stops you taking the sib out?

[Trello]

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[smallribber]

Originally Posted by Jon B

What would you need someone else to do, to get you on the water today?

Sorry don't understand that one

[Jon B]

Originally Posted by Easedalenovice

Sorry don't understand that one

So would you go on the water more often if someone did everything else and you just had to walk outside your front door and your boat was there in the water ready to go?

[Jon B]

Originally Posted by Trello

This is all very intriguing.

I think that you probably ought to change the thread title to "Guess Jon B's Profession".

I actually help run a not for profit organisation in Wigan called Fur Clemt. We do some amazing things for people in the community. This is the brain child of my wife and mother-in-law MBE. Check us out on Facebook and the website.

[smallribber]

Originally Posted by Jon B

So would you go on the water more often if someone did everything else and you just had to walk outside your front door and your boat was there in the water ready to go?

No.................

[tinker]

"What stops you taking the sib out?" The Mrs, the weather and a lack of facilities in the UK. Secure pontoons, campsites with launch facilities or pontoons, moorings are far to few and expensive when you find them.

Redcliffe is good example of what's required but £20 to launch and no mooring to use its an expensive pain.

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Easedalenovice

No.................

Not like you Dennis, a one word reply. FFS what's the world coming too

Anyway did you have a good holiday?

[Peter_C]

Well I sold the SIB so I don't think the new owner would like me taking it out

I did buy a RIB that is days away from completing a total makeover, but right now a hydraulic rebuild kit, and making patterns then sewing the seats up is keeping us off the water.

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by tinker

"What stops you taking the sib out?" The Mrs, the weather and a lack of facilities in the UK. Secure pontoons, campsites with launch facilities or pontoons, moorings are far to few and expensive when you find them.

Redcliffe is good example of what's required but £20 to launch and no mooring to use its an expensive pain.

Redcliffe where? Bristol, London, Paignton?

Whilst I can appreciate that cost can be a factor, there are so many fantastic places you can launch from for free.
All my life I've kayaked, windsurfed, sailed, but it's only the past 3 years that I've had a sib and an OB, would I swop it - no.
I've been to some fantastic places only accesable from the water, and most of the time launched from a trailer for free.
Close to 140 hrs on the water and probably only paid £60 to launch and £60 to register, not a lot for so much pleasure.

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Jon B

I actually help run a not for profit organisation in Wigan called Fur Clemt. We do some amazing things for people in the community. This is the brain child of my wife and mother-in-law MBE. Check us out on Facebook and the website.

I looked it up, Jon. Very impressive. And very worthwhile...

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Steve509926

All my life I've kayaked, windsurfed, sailed, but it's only the past 3 years that I've had a sib and an OB, would I swop it - no.

Really? Of those four sports (kayaking, windsurfing, sailing, powerboating), you enjoy the latter the most?

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Steve509926

I've been to some fantastic places only accesable from the water, and most of the time launched from a trailer for free.
Close to 140 hrs on the water and probably only paid £60 to launch and £60 to register, not a lot for so much pleasure.

I've just looked up where tinker is from, and it turns out that he's from the West Mids, as am I. Whilst I'm fairly new to SIBing, it does strike me that everywhere that is close enough to do a day trip to wants to charge you to launch: the Severn, Trent and Avon are highly regulated (with charges and speed limits), and the whole of the Welsh Coast needs your boat to be licensed (and one licence doesn't even cover the whole coast - you need different ones for different bits!).

Being a bit of a skinflint, I'm keen to find places at which you can launch for free, especially within a couple of hours drive from the West Mids. Maybe they are around, and I haven't found them yet.

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Trello

the whole of the Welsh Coast needs your boat to be licensed (and one licence doesn't even cover the whole coast - you need different ones for different bits!).

Being a bit of a skinflint, I'm keen to find places at which you can launch for free, especially within a couple of hours drive from the West Mids. Maybe they are around, and I haven't found them yet.

Anglesey, Gwynedd & Conwy - one annual registration (£35 Anglesey) covers all 3 with loads of places to beach launch for free if you look for them. Anglesey "wardens" only work Fri, Sat & Sun but work all week the last 2 weeks in July and all of August. Under 10hp, still have to register but there's no charge to launch.
I don't think Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire have registration charges and I've never been charged to launch.

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Trello

Really? Of those four sports (kayaking, windsurfing, sailing, powerboating), you enjoy the latter the most?

I've have really enjoyed them all at different times in my life. WW kayaking, windsurfing and dinghy sailing are all brilliant sports (dinghy sailing was probably my favourite)
But the one thing the SIB gives me, that the others didn't, is the ability to explore further afield to places that I would never otherwise go to and in the company of others.

[Fenlander]

>>There must be a hundred reasons why you’ve not got the boat out as much as you’d like

For us it is just one family responsibility reason which is outside the remit of this thread but as far as the logistics of getting the boat to and on the water goes we are always ready.

That's what I like about a SIB and outboard we can easily lift. It all sits unobtrusively in the garage ready to be loaded into the car in a little over 30mins. I have a printed check list which we tick off as the car is loaded... might seem a bit nerdy but means we never arrive without the transom wheels or similar crucial items. Fresh fuel is collected at the village garage or at the last garage en-route to the launch location. The VHF and marine GPS can be charged in the car on the way to the sea. The inflator pump battery is always kept charged. At our nearest and regular go-to launch point we know where to park and set up free, the all tide states slip is free as is the adj post-launch final prep "are we ready" pontoon. We are quite flexible with the weather which we check on one of the marine sites before leaving home and our launch situation gives options if it's unexpectedly rough when we get there so our journey isn't wasted. But yep I guess there is one thing that can stop us and that's a day of rain or daft sea states.

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Steve509926

the one thing the SIB gives me, that the others didn't, is the ability to explore further afield to places that I would never otherwise go to and in the company of others.

Yes, I can understand that.

Having done a little of all those other sports over a number of years, and only recently getting into boats with motors, I'm still suffering from that niggling feeling in the back of my head that I'm "cheating" by using the motor. There's a real high that comes from catching the wind and hiking out...

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Trello

There's a real high that comes from catching the wind and hiking out...

In my heart I'd say yes, but I'd have to be on an illegal high for my back to agree.

[Trello]

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[Fenlander]

>>> niggling feeling in the back of my head that I'm "cheating" by using the motor.

Funnily enough after some 60 plus years leisure cycling I bought an E-mountain bike recently to offset old knees. When I stop to chat to folks on the local tracks I can’t stop myself saying of course I’m cheating a bit, I have elec assistance.

[Trello]

There's a bit of a puritanical streak in all of us...