What makes one a 'cruiser'?

[MicHughV]

ah, what Tetapare sez......I find little fault with his summation.....there is a big difference between a cruiser and a sailor...

[MicHughV]

I have a tie....I share it with a friend....between the two of us, I think it has been worn once.....wore it to dockside wedding...this is no ordinary tie...no indeed, it is a sail tie, laboriously painted to resemble a "real" tie...

but now I'm worried I've lost my " cruiser" status...

[waterman46]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

I was going to make a joke, but then I started to tick off quite a few of your boxes here TP. And then Tupaia added "You forgot the ukulele..." and I really started to get worried (ukulele, Check!). Maybe I am a cruiser

OMG, I have the uke, but don't know how to play it! Can I be a cruiser please?

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by waterman46

OMG, I have the uke, but don't know how to play it! Can I be a cruiser please?

I can play ... badly, but I can play . But surely that's another mark of a cruiser; the ability to not give a f!#* what others think. As long as everyone's having fun, it's all good

[Greg K]

Technically the definition is fairly simple:

Cruiser: You take your boat from point A to point X and stay the night. Size or type of boat, and length of stay or distance travelled over water is irrelevant... at that point you're cruising and it's an adventure.

[davil]

A "true" cruiser can be smelled downwind!!!!
mixture of body odor and diesel.

[MicHughV]

true, a cruiser uses diesel oil as suntan lotion...

but another big giveaway....tattoo's....I have yet to meet a globe girdling sailor without a spot of ink on them...

[davil]

another feature
longer arms from carrying shopping bags

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

true, a cruiser uses diesel oil as suntan lotion...

but another big giveaway....tattoo's....I have yet to meet a globe girdling sailor without a spot of ink on them...

Well, we've been at sea for over 5 years, covered over 30k nm and over half the globe - nary a spot of ink on either one of us.

[DMF Sailing]

Originally Posted by davil

another feature
longer arms from carrying shopping bags

You should contribute this one to the ongoing grocery-shopping thread, which has veered off to ciguara

[DMF Sailing]

I'm so happy with the way this poll is going that I'd do a "what makes your boat a 'blue-water' cruiser" one if that hadn't been done to death already.

Or if I were really feeling antsy, "What makes you a newb".


Though I personally empathize with the "cruiser living on the hard" and the "used to own/no longer a cruiser" and "still cruise though I currently don't own" crowds, I especially appreciated the poster who opined that "'cruiser' is the wrong word."

As a CF supporter, I may suggest to the mods a name change to ownersforumalsofrequentedbypeoplewhodontevenown.co m, since that seems to reflect the prevailing opinion. , and I say that without bitterness!

My favorite CF poll by the way was anything about COLREGS, the word that shall not be spoken by the cruisers who say 'ni.' Even I am not so dastardly to bring that one up.

[carstenb]

Well A cruiser is one who actually does know the colregs :-)

[DMF Sailing]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Well A cruiser is one who actually does know the colregs :-)

annnnnnd away we go!

[davil]

Originally Posted by DMF Sailing

You should contribute this one to the ongoing grocery-shopping thread, which has veered off to ciguara

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trying to remember, was a small church may be Barra de Navidiad?, may be another close by town? because of an earthquake both arms of the Christ broke and laid by the sides, we used to call the Christ of the Cruisers as it resembled the cruisers carrying bags from the market.
No offense intended.
Just memories from late 90's

[MicHughV]

CarstenB...what....no ink???...tsk..tsk....but you've only covered half the globe...the other half awaits you....tattoo gun in hand...talk to me again after that....