Smokers and boating.....

THANK YOU for all the replies! I'm so relieved to see that I am not the only one with this opinion. I also really like the idea of bringing their own life jacket to stink up :) I probably wouldn't have thought of that!
 
JediJD said:
I have a bifurcated set of rules. I can smoke my cigars where ever and when ever I choose
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This is what I'm talking about as I do the same with my cigars........................ I actually have a little plastic placard on the lower part of the helm that says "POSITIVELY NO SMOKING". I discourage cigerette smoking on my boat but I'm not going to be a pr!ck about it. Cigars on the other hand are always welcomed and are enjoyed every weekend on my boat.

John
 
Bridog said:
Now the other side of the coin..... Once while enjoying a cigar ON MY BOAT, and on the swim platform I was told by a guest that the smoke was bad for his daughter. I was respectful and put the cigar out, but ended the trip ASAP.
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Why did you end the trip early?

Doug
 
I am a smoker, and smoking is permitted on my boat but not in the salon. HOWEVER, I would never light a cigarette on another persons boat. In fact, I have a friend whose boat I boarded last week and he is a smoker and was currently smoking when I asked, do you permit others to smoke on your boat... ? I would hope that people have common courtesy.
 
My boat is a smoking area , but please DON'T throw your butts in the lake . If you don't smoke you may be asked to leave.:grin:
 
Yuck! It's a disgusting habit. There is absolutely no smoking on or near my boat. In fact, I can't even think of any friends or family members that smoke. Maybe I'm going out on a limb here but I'd like to think that boaters, particularly those that subscribe to a thought provoking forum such as this, would have enough common sense not to smoke too.
 
just me said:
My boat is a smoking area , but please DON'T throw your butts in the lake . If you don't smoke you may be asked to leave.:grin:
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That's the problem with 99.99999% of smokers. The world is their ashtray and somehow believe the butts can be thrown anywhere. bastards I say.
A few years ago I was at a cross walk, a car is stopped at the light in front of me. The passenger guy has the window half way down. He throws his still burning cigarette that's only 2/3 smoked. It lands at my feet. We haven't made eye contact yet. I picked it up tossed it inside his window onto his lap and it bounced off of him and onto the floor of the car. I smiled and said, you dropped that....
 
My wife and I smoked for years (dumb dumb dumber) since we quit nobobdy smokes anywhere near us even our marina has a butt can at the gate no smoking anywhere after you enter. Even when I smoked never threw a butt in any water fish feed on filters it plugs them up and there dead. In this state it's an $1100.00 ticket to throw a lit cigarrete out the car window I just checked our small town has given out more lit cig tickets than talking on the phone tickets there only worth $124.00
 
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Not allowed on our boat at all EVER!
My wife's boss just had all the cockpit seats redone on his boat at a tune of 5k.First time out one of his guests burned a nice size hole in a cushion!
 
What I find funny are the people who find smoking "Disgusting" won't think twice about Lighting Up a big Honking Cuban Cigar and stinking up the whole neighborhood!! :lol:
 
I smoke everything I can find, except cigars. But I do not smoke anywhere but on the swim platform. Guests do the same. To completely ban it from your boat, is just as stupid as not allowing red wine on your boat if a guest brings a bottle. It's just a friggin' boat, not an operating room.
 
Bugsy24 said:
What I find funny are the people who find smoking "Disgusting" won't think twice about Lighting Up a big Honking Cuban Cigar and stinking up the whole neighborhood!! :lol:
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+1 Where would out economy be without smokers? Think of all the jobs lost in the medical field and the tobacco companies. We are keeping America afloat right now!
 
Made the mistake once.. no more... $260.00 to recover the port front set in my 23' bow rider 15 years ago sloved that problem.
 
Bugsy24 said:
What I find funny are the people who find smoking "Disgusting" won't think twice about Lighting Up a big Honking Cuban Cigar and stinking up the whole neighborhood!! :lol:
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Yeah, I would much prefer to smell the burning of paper that wraps cigarettes to the smell of fine 100% tobacco. :smt043
 
I don't smoke.
But, I have no problem with one of my valued, invited guests smoking on my boat.
Most posters on this board are overly uptight.
 
KayKook said:
I smoke everything I can find, except cigars. But I do not smoke anywhere but on the swim platform. Guests do the same. To completely ban it from your boat, is just as stupid as not allowing red wine on your boat if a guest brings a bottle. It's just a friggin' boat, not an operating room.
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Red wine is always welcome. Keep a can of "Spot Shot" handy and you might find yourself spilling wine just to watch that stuff make the stain instantly disappear! It's probably giving me cancer, but the carpet is CLEAN.

However, until someone invents burn-removal-in-a-can, I'm sticking with the smoking ban. I had someone lay a lit cigarette ON THE DECK! Then they let it burn out. It left a deep, 2" long burn in the gelcoat that was expensive to fix and I can still see where it happened almost 10 years later. I also have a fake snap in the cockpit carpet covering another burn (made from somone standing on the platform, but leaning in)

No. No more smoking on or even NEAR the boat.
 
I prefer no smoking. There is one girlfriend of a close friend that comes out occasionally. She is too hot to say no to.




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