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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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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)

ErrolTheDragon · 16/09/2024 00:04

blueshoes · 16/09/2024 00:00

Where does a man with a tent stand?

In a field, hunched over?

BobbyBiscuits · 16/09/2024 00:03

Haha. I had an uncle who was into outdoorsy stuff and sailing. He had a very tiny battered sailing boat at one point. Also a van with a mattress in the back. I was convinced he must have been trying to use either or both to seduce women but I never saw any evidence. The poor fella was about 80 so maybe in his youth? He did have a couple of glamorous ex wives.
I can imagine a bloke showing off that he had a boat as a chat up line, but dk if he would be necessarily a cheat?

SweetSakura · 16/09/2024 00:02

What kind of boats do you mean? If it's something like this then fair play to them tbh

Men with boats cheat
blueshoes · 16/09/2024 00:00

Where does a man with a tent stand?

blueshoes · 15/09/2024 23:59

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:14

Yes yes absolutely yes

Like Kanye West and Bianca Censori on a boat in Venice

GetawayCar · 15/09/2024 23:58

Live near a marina and know a lot of boat owners (big sailing yachts). I sail myself (DH doesn’t). I don’t know of anyone cheating on their partners. The only thing they are hiding from their partners is the money spent on maintenance and repairs!

25soexcited · 15/09/2024 23:54

Well my husband has a yacht that he stays on a few nights a month and obviously sails it .Crikey I would eat my hat if he was shagging someone on the boat…shall report back 😆

ChipsCheeseAndGravey · 15/09/2024 23:50

My dad is a cheater with a boat, but I think he was a cheater before the boat. I’m sure the boat gets used for cheating, but now he’s not cheating on my mother I don’t wanna know because I want to go on holiday on said boat. He got the boat during what I call his 3/4 life crisis. The midlife crisis was the standard issues sports car. Maybe the boats and cheating thing is because (for some) it’s a mid life (or 3/4 life) crisis?

anxioussister · 15/09/2024 23:50

Live in a community with lots of boat owners. Mostly for recreational puttering around / fishing / wake boarding.

zero correlation - many of the people that own them buy them specifically to enjoy time on the water with their families.

for sure if someone with previously no boating experience or interest suddenly buys himself a donzi then one might question his motivations the same as someone who suddenly buys a fancy car.

I think the correlation is ‘anyone who suddenly expresses interest in attractive life upgrades independently of their spouse or family’ is more likely to cheat. It’s not a boat thing!

DoloresHargreeves · 15/09/2024 23:49

Do we think canal boats count? Perhaps for a very specific type of adulterous sex...

BooneyBeautiful · 15/09/2024 23:31

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:03

My thoughts too but caravans....

Don't come knocking if the caravan is rocking!

BooneyBeautiful · 15/09/2024 23:27

FlamingoFloss · 15/09/2024 22:38

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is making me
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Me too! Some of the responses are hilarious!

sweeneytoddsrazor · 15/09/2024 23:23

@Ohmychristdawn

You don't really think Timothy and Prunella are up to no good do you?

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:21

Ohmychristdawn · 15/09/2024 23:20

Are we talking yachts or canal boats here?

The kind you see going through the locks on the Thames at the weekend.

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Ohmychristdawn · 15/09/2024 23:20

Are we talking yachts or canal boats here?

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:20

2pence · 15/09/2024 23:08

@Boatsandcoats have you watched Our Flag Means Death too many times?

Is never too many times?

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Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:17

Delphiniumandlupins · 15/09/2024 22:42

My husband has owned 3 boats, though not all at once. He's claimed they were for fishing but often returns without any fish! Stupidly, I have accepted all his excuses - too windy, too sunny, tide wrong etc

Too shaggy!

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Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:16

Emily1583 · 15/09/2024 22:42

This sounds daft I'm sorry. Think you may need to see a Doctor.

Oh thanks for the advise! I'll take tomorrow and Tuesday off work just to make sure I'm well by Wednesday

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Derwent01 · 15/09/2024 23:14

Beekeepingmum · 15/09/2024 22:09

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

it could have an underground bunker under the shed ?

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:14

Josette77 · 15/09/2024 22:33

Those are known as blowjob Kayaks.

Yes yes absolutely yes

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DwightDFlysenhower · 15/09/2024 23:13

The only bonks I associate with sailing are from the boom if you don't duck quickly enough.

Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:13

DadJoke · 15/09/2024 22:25

It’s the people with beach huts you really can’t trust.

Oh I can absolutely see that! I don't know anyone with one though

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Boatsandcoats · 15/09/2024 23:12

Rewis · 15/09/2024 22:21

I mean could be true.but this is not a stereotype that I've come across. All the people I know that own boats are couples and they're almost always on the boat together.

Actually my dad boats by himself. But he stays on the lake and we can see him from the pier. I've yet to see a woman snorkeling towards the boat.

😂

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justasking111 · 15/09/2024 23:10

Our marina in the summer has a flurry of actors, celebrities who drink cocktails on the terraces, we attract the fake tan, false eyelashes, pseudo glam types looking for gawd knows what.

One wealthy guy with an enormous gin palace buys champagne by the crate, women throw thenmselves at him but he's not a cheater apparently just enjoys the craic