On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:52:56 +0000, Larry wrote:

Stephen Trapani wrote in news:BoOPn.29699
:

...unless you're trying to simulate living on a broken down boat that
isn't able to do the one thing that boats do best.



I never met anyone rich enough to own a boat that wasn't "broken down" in
one way or another......

The Simulator was written a long time ago as A JOKE!, NOT as a serious
affront to your manhood. I never imagined how much it would spread over
the internet across boating forums around the world. I even found it on
blogs in New Zealand and Bangladesh!


Regardless, it is a good explanation of what living on a boat is
really like and I was actually aboard a boat (friends had sailed it
from San Diego to Thailand taking a couple of years, and truly there
were two places you could sit down, and space for one in the vee
berth. You could slide, carefully into the Head and enough room to
stand and operate the stove. The rest of the boat was filled with
"stuff". The wife was back in the States for a visit and the husband
was batching and trying to clear out some of the "stuff" to make room
for more (I guess). He gave me a two year old Pactra in the box and
still wrapped in the plastic off the store shelf. I looked at it and
said, "but it's new" and he told me that it had been aboard for two
years and since they had never had a need for it he might as well give
it to me.

IN fact I have never been aboard a cruising boat that had an empty
locker :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)