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Men with boats cheat

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Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 21:54

The subject says it all!

I’ve long believed that men only buy boats to use them as floating love shacks. My friend thinks I’m being ridiculous and says boats are just a great lifestyle choice. Recently, she told me her husband is thinking of buying a boat, and I couldn’t help but give her that look! She insists he’d never cheat, but in my experience, every man I’ve known who had a boat wasn’t exactly faithful.

Honestly, if my husband bought one, I might even consider it grounds for divorce!

So, am I being unreasonable? Can men own boats without it leading to adultery, or am I totally right to be suspicious? Should men with boats just wear a t-shirt that says, "Don’t trust me?"

(For the record, this doesn’t apply to fishermen making a living or people who live on boats!)

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murphys · 16/09/2024 06:30

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 16/09/2024 06:25

When I was young (and less fussy about nice bedding) my Greek boyfriend and I would get frisky among his dad's tomatoes.

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As I read this, the Ketchup song popped into my head 😂

Total earworm and I cant even sing along.

Ethylred · 16/09/2024 06:27

The OP doesn't mean "men with boats" but "billionaires with yachts".

ThePrologue · 16/09/2024 06:25

mitogoshi · 15/09/2024 22:27

We don't have a boat unless a blow up kayak counts Grin

Is that the equivalent of a blow-up doll?!

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 16/09/2024 06:25

Beekeepingmum · 15/09/2024 22:09

Who on earth is using an allotment for a love-shack?

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When I was young (and less fussy about nice bedding) my Greek boyfriend and I would get frisky among his dad's tomatoes.

ThePrologue · 16/09/2024 06:23

Have you tried shagging on a punt? Take an anti-emetic first

One of the most ridiculously assumptive posts in a very long time

MuchuseasaChocolateTeapot · 16/09/2024 06:21

My SIL’s mum, a widow reconnected with a boyfriend from her schooldays. He was married but had a yacht in a marina that he would stay on for weeks at a time but his wife didn’t because she hated it. SIL’s mum would go and stay with him until he had to go home. The kicker, he was 88 and she was 85! Carried on until he died.

so there might be something to your theory after all!

Webbymeister · 16/09/2024 06:20

murphys · 16/09/2024 05:55

I've had an impromptu shag on a boat.

Back in the day of course, so I don't know who it belonged to. But I reckon it worked a charm for this fella.

Now if I hear someone older had bought a boat, my first thought is mid life crisis. And that unfortunately ties in with having affairs.

So yeah OP I think it's considers quite the pulling tool. I think land based mlc signs are motorbikes.

Also the smell of damp

Webbymeister · 16/09/2024 06:19

No but all pilots are shaggers. Even the ones you think are not

Jjiillkkf · 16/09/2024 06:16

I think you're on to something OP. The wild adventure men types and the midlife crisis ones, dirty sea dog bohemians

Toastghost · 16/09/2024 05:56

I’m awake at 5.55 reading about men with boats. Thanks for the information op.

murphys · 16/09/2024 05:55

I've had an impromptu shag on a boat.

Back in the day of course, so I don't know who it belonged to. But I reckon it worked a charm for this fella.

Now if I hear someone older had bought a boat, my first thought is mid life crisis. And that unfortunately ties in with having affairs.

So yeah OP I think it's considers quite the pulling tool. I think land based mlc signs are motorbikes.

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Boatsandcoats · 16/09/2024 05:52

RedheadedSoulStealer · 16/09/2024 02:10

Hahahaha I grew up in NZ and my parents and their close friends had boats.

As far as I know out of the five couples, three of the husbands ended up being 100% confirmed cheats.

Make of that what you will.

The other 2 jusy had wives who looked the other way

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Boatsandcoats · 16/09/2024 05:49

SkiingIsHeaven · 16/09/2024 00:53

OP, what is your opinion on women who buy boats?

I haven't got one perhaps they are trying to get rid of a husband though!

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Boatsandcoats · 16/09/2024 05:48

SweetSakura · 16/09/2024 00:05

I would estimate about 99% of men who work in the yachting industry cheat though. And thats a conservative estimate

(That's based on my time working in the industry and it I knew they were married i wasn't interested but I was a total rarity it would seem)

It's insider information!

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Boatsandcoats · 16/09/2024 05:44

blueshoes · 16/09/2024 00:00

Where does a man with a tent stand?

In a field with a hammer, pegs and a beer in my experience. Why?

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SmokeyToo · 16/09/2024 05:43

Lots of men buy boats to get away from nagging wives. (Source - I used to work in the ocean racing industry!)

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Boatsandcoats · 16/09/2024 05:39

blueshoes · 15/09/2024 23:59

Like Kanye West and Bianca Censori on a boat in Venice

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Oh god I need to bleach my brain again to remove that again!

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Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 16/09/2024 05:20

Whothefuckdoesthat · 15/09/2024 22:01

I think we move in different social circles 😂

Me too ✋️ 😂

thebestinterest · 16/09/2024 05:06

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 21:54

The subject says it all!

I’ve long believed that men only buy boats to use them as floating love shacks. My friend thinks I’m being ridiculous and says boats are just a great lifestyle choice. Recently, she told me her husband is thinking of buying a boat, and I couldn’t help but give her that look! She insists he’d never cheat, but in my experience, every man I’ve known who had a boat wasn’t exactly faithful.

Honestly, if my husband bought one, I might even consider it grounds for divorce!

So, am I being unreasonable? Can men own boats without it leading to adultery, or am I totally right to be suspicious? Should men with boats just wear a t-shirt that says, "Don’t trust me?"

(For the record, this doesn’t apply to fishermen making a living or people who live on boats!)

🙄😂🙄😂🙄

YABU.

NothingThat · 16/09/2024 04:14

Yes, I submit my ex boss for anecdata.
Beginning of the week you hear him on the phone telling someone he'd have to pop down to Buelieu this weekend to keep an eye on the yacht, bit of maintenance.
Years later, when he came to sell it, turns out it was in a terrible state, hadn't actually sailed for years.
His ex-wife, long term mistress, a one night stand, sun set mistress and at least three half siblings were identified at the funeral.

Ladyzfactor · 16/09/2024 03:53

Duckingella · 16/09/2024 00:24

Probably more likely to be used by their teenagers as shag pads in order to avoid being caught out by their parents

If the boats a rocking don't go a knocking......

Giving me flashbacks of realizing that both my brother and I both used my dad's camper for teenage hookups. I thought I was so cleaver...

Jenasaurus · 16/09/2024 03:42

Men who go on golf holidays, well they are certainly dodgy

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/09/2024 03:31

It's true right enough.

It can begin quite innocently with a rubber ring at the local swimming pool as a small boy, before progressing to a paddle board as an adolescent, and then before you know it you have a lothario with a cabin cruiser fitted out with a water bed and mirrored ceiling.

At least they can be easily identified, and hence avoided, by their faux captain's hat and nautical tattoos.

ChampagneLassie · 16/09/2024 03:23

So if my DP remains boatless have I got a better chance of him remaining faithful?

ChampagneLassie · 16/09/2024 03:21

Johns simpler life!