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Funny boat pics,videos and jokes.

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    The Affordable Boat Act http://www.richmondteaparty.com/the-affordable-boat-act/


    The U.S. government has just passed a new law entitled “The Affordable Boat Act” declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat by April, 2014. These ‘affordable’ boats will cost an average of $54,000-$155,000 each. This does not include taxes, trailers, towing fees, licensing and registration fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance, or repair costs.

    This law has been passed because, until now, typically only wealthy and financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new law ensures that every American can now have an ‘affordable’ boat of their own, because everyone is ‘entitled’ to a new boat. If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive four ‘free’ life jackets (does not include monthly usage fees).

    In order to make sure everyone purchases an ‘affordable boat,’ the cost of owning a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way, wealthy people will pay more for something that other people don’t want or can’t afford to maintain. But, to be fair, people who can’t afford to maintain their boat will be regularly fined and children (under the age of 26) can use their parents boat(s) to party on until they turn 27, after which date they must purchase their own boat.

    If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding; no you can’t). If you don’t want or don’t need a boat, you are required to buy one anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or can’t afford one, you will be regularly fined $800 until you purchase one, or face imprisonment. If you cannot (or don’t want to) purchase an ‘affordable boat’ from a private business, you can buy a starter boat from the U. S. government ‘affordable boat exchange.’ Such a boat will have the basic necessities (hull, oars or paddles) and will only cost ‘slightly more’ than a similar boat purchased from a private business. Plus, since your tax dollars will subsidize the purchase of a boat from the U. S. government’s ‘affordable boat exchange,’ it will appear that you are getting a good deal.

    Failure to use the boat will also result in fines. People living in the desert, ghettos, inner cities, or areas with no access to lakes are not exempt. Neither age, motion sickness, experience, knowledge, nor lack of desire are acceptable excuses for not using your boat.

    A government review board (that doesn’t know the difference between the port side, starboard side, or stern of a boat) will decide everything, including when, where, how often, and for what purposes you can use your boat, along with how many people can ride your boat. The board will also determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat, and will also decide if your boat has out lived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories (like a $500 compass) or a newer and more expensive boat.

    Those that can afford yachts will be required to do so … it’s only fair. The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.

    Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat, they and their families can obtain boats free at the expense of tax payers. Unions, bankers, and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.

    (From anonymous post, too good to pass up):D







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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    How about this for my microboat should push it along nicely :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭breghall


    tasty...i wonder that the slip % on that is


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Step onboard in style :D



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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    My wife was so shocked when I said I was going to make the bed :D



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Massive floods causing chaos? Time to play...

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    If you can't bring mohammed to the mountain bring the mountain to mohammed :D


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    I guess sailing has some good points :P


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    ^^ Queen Anne's Battery Marina, Plymouth.... gas altogether


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Darwin was right, who knew... :/


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Plastic boat :D

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    :D




  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Make sure your Narrow boat is narrow :) Full story here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2286007/Narrowboat-wedged-on-canal-lock.html Ooh Don't like the wording of that link :eek: :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Make sure your Narrow boat is narrow

    From the article:
    He said: "...... A little ridge of brickwork that's moved over 200 years was enough to catch it. Luckily, nobody was hurt." He praised the lockkeeper who he said had given help along with bacon sandwiches and cups of tea.
    They knew how to make bricks in those days. Personally I’d forgo the bacon buttie in favour of a Kango hammer! Bet there were lots of other bricks happening too!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,526 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    :eek:

    I'm not sure which I'd be more worried about - the car or the boat!

    (or the car travelling behind when the boat falls out of the car)
    fergal.b wrote: »
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,066 ✭✭✭✭neris




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    My type of skipper! 'Ok, forward for the gybe' NOTHING that happens behind is important, he was concentrating on up FRONT.
    Great to see the Howth 17, beautiful craft. Fetching across on starboard I bet he caused a few problems :D


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Living life on the edge :eek:


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b




  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    lighthouse.jpg
    Photo and story from http://www.kitsapreport.com/mega-yacht-crashes-into-point-no-point-lighthouse/ :D



    HANSVILLE–A terrifying scene at the Point-no-Point State Park unraveled late Thursday afternoon as the iconic lighthouse perched on the northernmost tip of the Kitsap Peninsula unexpectedly collided with a 126 foot mega yacht just before 3 pm.

    Initial reports from bystanders and park officials claim that the Point-no-Point Lighthouse made a series of irrational and ill-timed maneuvers in the events leading up to the crash, subsequently obstructing the unsuspecting oncoming boat. One onlooker described the actions of the lighthouse operator as taunting, claiming that the operator “was waving her hands up and down and screaming frantically in an aggressive manner just before the wreck”.

    The Zune is a 16000 ton vessel owned by former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen. Built in 2007, The Zune was designed to withstand heavy abuse from man made stationary objects. Steven Johnson, captain of the Zune and 15 year maritime veteran said “It came out of nowhere. We are just lucky that no one got injured. There was an obvious error on behalf of the lighthouse operator.”

    Lighthouse Operator Sharon Jones did not give a statement to the press, and was reportedly uncooperative with police and coastguard officials. She is under investigation for negligence and was placed on administrative leave immediately.

    Paul Allen informed KR reporters that while he is grateful that no one on board was injured, he will be seeking compensation from Kitsap County for the damages to his boat.





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,066 ✭✭✭✭neris


    "the Point-no-Point Lighthouse made a series of irrational and ill-timed maneuvers in the events leading up to the crash"

    How does a lighthouse collide with a boat? Lighthouses dont manuver or just appear out of no where. Both paper & electronic charts have marks & lighthouses marked on them


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Reminds me of this :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,066 ✭✭✭✭neris


    My type of skipper! 'Ok, forward for the gybe' NOTHING that happens behind is important, he was concentrating on up FRONT.
    Great to see the Howth 17, beautiful craft. Fetching across on starboard I bet he caused a few problems :D

    Howth 17s another great boat for loosing rigs in the last few years. One of them managed to loose its rig while tied up on its mooring last year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    neris wrote: »
    "the Point-no-Point Lighthouse made a series of irrational and ill-timed maneuvers in the events leading up to the crash"

    How does a lighthouse collide with a boat? Lighthouses dont manuver or just appear out of no where. Both paper & electronic charts have marks & lighthouses marked on them

    It's happens easily when you let yourself get distracted by the wet tee shirt contest in the local nursing home.
    http://www.kitsapreport.com/wet-t-shirt-tuesday-at-local-nursing-home/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,066 ✭✭✭✭neris


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Reminds me of this :D


    Was thinking of that video as i was typing my previous message. Brilliant vid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    tricky D wrote: »
    It's happens easily when you let yourself get distracted by the wet tee shirt contest in the local nursing home.
    http://www.kitsapreport.com/wet-t-shirt-tuesday-at-local-nursing-home/
    That story made me feel like:

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    That's some parking :D




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    fergal.b wrote: »
    That's some parking :D
    The death knell sounded on the horn is quite sad.
    Fine ship.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,526 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The death knell sounded on the horn is quite sad.
    Fine ship.

    Is that what it was / what was going on? I thought it might be either joyriders, or the accelerator got stuck :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Is that what it was / what was going on? I thought it might be either joyriders, or the accelerator got stuck :D

    I'm guessing that that was a ship graveyard.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    More bad weather on the way.

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Something to look forward to :D


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    If any of you girls would like one I can make them if you supply the corks to me in their intact condition to the bottle :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    They also make tractors....



  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    tricky D wrote: »
    They also make tractors....



    I own one of these boats.



































    It needs a bit of work and to be enlarged a little bit :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    I was going to say you need to up your game in that post but thought better of it. Guess I was right:pac::pac:


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    tricky D wrote: »
    I was going to say you need to up your game in that post but thought better of it. Guess I was right:pac::pac:

    I need to pull up my game :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    This ad deserves to be in the joke section "hulanoids for sale" http://www.adverts.ie/4665321


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Jambo wrote: »
    This ad deserves to be in the joke section "hulanoids for sale" http://www.adverts.ie/4665321
    Oh dear...

    Maybe I should edit it to say 'hemorrhoids" :D

    As annodes go, they'd be as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Daibheid


    fergal.b wrote: »
    lighthouse.jpg
    Photo and story from http://www.kitsapreport.com/mega-yacht-crashes-into-point-no-point-lighthouse/ :D



    HANSVILLE–A terrifying scene at the Point-no-Point State Park unraveled late Thursday afternoon as the iconic lighthouse perched on the northernmost tip of the Kitsap Peninsula unexpectedly collided with a 126 foot mega yacht just before 3 pm.

    Initial reports from bystanders and park officials claim that the Point-no-Point Lighthouse made a series of irrational and ill-timed maneuvers in the events leading up to the crash, subsequently obstructing the unsuspecting oncoming boat. One onlooker described the actions of the lighthouse operator as taunting, claiming that the operator “was waving her hands up and down and screaming frantically in an aggressive manner just before the wreck”.
    .

    Inspired by Haughey's Celtic Mist being run down by Mizzen Head a few years back?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    New flood rescue vehicle :)

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Hugo Vihlen crossed the Atlantic in this little baby and thats no joke :D


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    I don't know who named them swells.
    There's nothing swell about them.
    They should have named them the awfuls.

    Hugo Vihlen

    I can only imagine how he came up with that quote :eek:


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


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