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Tomorrow I have to board a boat with 80 or so co-workers to go on some ill-concieved pre-Christmas joviality cruise about Auckland harbour for 3 hours with them. How do I let myself get talked into taking part in these things? I can see that leaping overboard will be the preferred option after half an hour and I only hope I will be able to make it to shore. I hate boats. You?

― gazza, Friday, 22 November 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

your employer takes you on a cruise? that sounds pretty sweet to me.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:14 (twenty-three years ago)

except we have to pay for it.

― gazza, Friday, 22 November 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

ouch

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

and of course this being Auckland it will rain and be rough.

― gazza, Friday, 22 November 2002 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess is a prick.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

jess is a stick

― minna (minna), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess is a bottle of Quik.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

jess is a crick

― minna (minna), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

in the neck

― minna (minna), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

of a woods that was populated by

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

James

― gazza, Friday, 22 November 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread has taken a weird turn.
Boats are fantastic, untill they sink. I hope for your sake the cruise features a smorgasbord with an ice sculpture. They're groovy.
Last time I went on a cruise we danced on the roof. The captain yelled out of his bridge below for us to stop. Then we were deposited in the wilds of some endless Moscow suburb at 3am. *And* there was no beer left.

― Gordon (Gordon), Friday, 22 November 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i would like to be on a boat. but only if its a small wooden one, or if its metal it should be rusting. if its run aground on the shores of the aral sea, even better. otherwise, the wash, on the lincolnshire side

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

canoeing is godlike. all other boats suck. i went on a two week alaskan cruise when i was like 15 w. my dad and it was so boring, all you could do was eat.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

man, you people are all on crack. boats rock - on every level. i love boats of every kind. the only kind of boats i dont like are the kind that kill fish for eating.

but being stuck for several hours in an enclosed space with people from yer office = MAJOR DUD.

― kate, Friday, 22 November 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor you can tell I am a child of the eighties as I was convinced Gazza was from Newcastle, merely cos he's called Gazza.

I can't row boats. Chiz. It is just an impossibility. I need some kind of rowing simulator. Rowing machines just are not the same. I did get badly scratched up once on a boat in a beautiful park in NOttingham.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Can you get baots across the ocean anymore? Like in the olden days before aeroplanes when people had travel trunks instead of suit cases and sat on deckchairs and doffed their caps to passing ladies with parasols . I mean can you get a ship from say Liverpool to St.Johns Newfoundland? I tried googling for info, but all I can find is lame sounding cruises, which take far too long and cost way too much. It can't take more than 4 days to travel a couple of thousand miles, surely?

This question inspired by looking at National Geographic Atlas (great book!) and sudden willingness to travel beyond Ealing.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a baot would probably just sink, I realise this.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

BOATS

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I see lots of boat activity from my workplace/office. Ferries, water taxis, Beasts, cruise ships, sloops (!) and fireboats.

But I just saw something new - a Staten Island ferry heading up the Hudson River. Wtf?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to own a boat.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

This morning, as I was going over Waterloo Bridge on a bus, I thought how much it would be to go and have dinner/drinks on one of those boats tied up by the Embankment for just such said purposes.

Next time I get asked to go for drinks somewhere, I'm going to insist it has to be on a boat.

― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

my sister owns a kayak!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Uh oh, team building day booked for early September, canoes...

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

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