Ya know what really ticks me off?

J

JamesTXSD

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For all the good things that comes to a person, there is a price to be paid. I wanna play on my boat, I must occasionally complete a few "honey-do" projects. Now, some of you have met the Blonde... for many years, clients have told me, "She is amazing - never forgets anything. Great attention to detail. Yadda, yadda..." :roll: I've always thought of her as "a babe" and I'm just happy to be along for the ride. :wink

So, are you gonna get to the point, Jim? Glad you asked. Her "attention to detail" can be a real pain in the butt. Any of you have a wife who gets on the boat and immediately starts looking around for things that need to be fixed??? :crook "Sit back and enjoy yourself, Hon," I tell her; but NOOOOOOOOOOO... this needs to be tightened, that needs to be fixed, where is that water leak coming from. As we're going down a waterway, I try to distract her with, "Hey, look! Dolphins!" or "What do you think of that boat?" or "Help me look for the next marker"... anything to keep her from going over the boat with a fine tooth comb.

We've been using the heck out of the boat in the three months that we've owned her. There always seemed to be some moisture in the head. "Something is leaking," she said. "Nahhhh, it's just some water left over from the shower (which leaks all over the place)." Heck, it's a boat. Well, today I am making up for all the fun we've been having... a whole list of things for me to get done. When it came to the leak in the head, I asked her where it was coming from. She started to tell me, and I said, "See if it's fresh or black." "How do I tell?" she asked. Yeah, I know better, but sometimes my mouth gets WAY ahead of my brain... "Taste it." :twisted:

I just know I'm gonna be missing that big piece of my butt. :crook

Of course, it's a loose fresh water fitting (I'd already seen it - I just knew it was gonna be a real pain to get at). I just spent an hour twisting around behind the toilet trying to get at that damn thing. If the guy at the factory who installed that piece had only taken 5 more seconds to make sure the fitting was tight BEFORE attaching the hoses, I wouldn't be a sweatball with a charlie horse and elevated blood pressure. And THAT'S what really ticks me off. :amgry

Could be worse... she could be reading this post and then I'd be missing a big bite out of the other cheek. Now, before any of you tell her, I will edit and/or delete this post before you can call (she doesn't read this forum). But for now, this has been great therapy! :smiled

Best wishes,
Jim B.

PS - I once said to Jeff at the factory, you could use someone like Joan to do the QC check before a boat gets out. I'm sure he thought I was kidding. She's out working on the port windshield wiper while I take a break. 8)
 
Jim-

Funny story!


But you better be glad she's focused on the boat......

If she runs out of things to nitpick there, she may start in on you and then you'd be wishing you'd had that butt graft to give her some more territory to chew up!

What a lass! What a gas! PITA! Life is a hurdle to pass with class. Please get off my ___!

Joe.
 
Ok I got some too! My Gerrie is always cleaning during the ride. What's the matter with that you Ocean going guys are saying? Well, she spends a lot of time on the inside of the cabin windows and helm usually when I'm meeting other boats in a narrow channel. Also, why do women need to bring all that food along for a 3 hour ride? I guarantee if you have a bowl of anything on board a C-Dory some of it will wind up being an offering to the river Gods. I've always said that the safest place for a drink on a boat is in your stomach. It's also great when she is re-arainging a cupboard and has stuff stacked all over just before we hit an enormous wake. You're right, that felt great! Please delete this one with yours.
 
Oh :cry :cry :cry waaaaa!

Jim, you may be needing a new helm seat with your newly configured butt! :xnaughty

. . . or maybe you better wait to see if the other side gets reconfigured too :wink

I'm cracking up reading these posts...Steve's had everything out of the cupboards, rearranging...then asking me where something is...my pat answer is "wherever you put it." :lol:

Caty
 
CatyMae n Steve":13xgy5rc said:
Oh :cry :cry :cry waaaaa!

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I'm cracking up reading these posts...Steve's had everything out of the cupboards, rearranging...then asking me where something is...my pat answer is "wherever you put it." :lol:

Caty
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When Joan packs, I get a "tour" of where everything goes. Being a guy, I will retain that information for almost two nanoseconds.

NOTE: there is going to be a discussion of body parts coming up!!! If you are offended by this, DO NOT READ FURTHER.

OK, if you're still here, I warned you.

Steve cannot help this situation. I believe Dr. Bob will be able to fill in the technical medical stuff here, but there is some sort of nerve that connects the eyeball to the testicular area. The lower causes the upper to not function while in the "search" mode. Much like women have an internal thermostat that runs wild, generally in the 4th to 5th decade. Apparently this is so men who cannot find their gloves will be able to warm their hands over the body heat of the previously mentioned women. Nature is very interesting that way.

To bring this back to C-Dory info, fortunately these boats have a finite amount of storage space... given enough time, even we guys can find stuff on these boats.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
JamesTXSD":ief85ojd said:
When Joan packs, I get a "tour" of where everything goes. Being a guy, I will retain that information for almost two nanoseconds.


Jim B.
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Tour would be helpful...but you guys aren't the only ones with short memories. As you mentioned, there's just so much storage area in a C-Dory. We're still hunting for a roll of paper towels that were on the boat before Steve rearranged everything...just a matter of time until we come across them, I guess :lol:

Caty
 
Hi Folks,

Yes, they are different. The second day my wife went out, she painted the back of the cabin because she didn't like the teak. We were tooling around the harbor and went into polpus Harbor. I did not want the back of the cabin painted. I like the look of wood that the 1983 Classic has. She finally looked up and commented on how beautiful the area was.

Every time she goes out, she has to make a negative comment about the boat, to much stuff, this and that. I courted her on an 18 foot Mariner. Lot of good it did. As my friend on LAST DANCE said once. "They all lie."

When I met El Ferio, I had to hug her and tell her that she is one in a million. Same with Becky on CT YANKEE. They are out there, but a lot of us have not found one yet. I guess we have to keep living and looking. Turn it over to the Higher Power. If something is meant to work, it will.

Nice trend.

Fred
 
Again, 'will prob get clobbered BUT - Relating to the occasional loose fittings from Water Lines to Wallas', I have to say that my experience has been that, other than 'loctited' auto fittings, it has been common in my experience for fittings to loosen over time. This is especially likely after undergoing long, high vibration and temperature cycling events such as a 3300 mile cross country delivery trip. It happens on tractors, motorhomes, and boats and is not always a sign that the original installer did not care. Those nylon-like plumbing fittings even loosen in household use. Someone has noted that the C-Dory factory once used hardware sealants improperly in some plumbing fittings - maybe that was a try to keep the fittings from loosening. I doubt if Teflon tape would prevent loosening either.

I even had the fuel injector line on my Cummins diesel come loose after 40,000 miles, and they are very dependable engines for the most part.

So, what I am suggesting is at least the minor consideration that perhaps the vibrations and temperature changes, etc, of the marine environment make it unlikely that everything will always stay tight no matter who originally tightened it. I think you have to go over your fittings every Spring, esp. the pressurized water lines and pump attachments.

John
 
drjohn71a":1db0fjgn said:
I even had the fuel injector line on my Cummins diesel come loose after 40,000 miles, and they are very dependable engines for the most part.
John
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Gotta agree there re: Cummins engines. Too bad that in the pickup world they put them in a Chrysler product. Sort'a like putting diamond earrings on Rosanne Barr.

I know, Doc, it ain't precisely on the subject, but it does tick me off....
 
The Cummins is in my motorhome.... LOL My pickup is a Ford Super Duty 6.0 Diesel. both engines have been pretty much flawless except for the loose fitting on the Cummins. John
 
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