Girl friendly boats

OldSkool

OldSkool

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May 8, 2010
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Boating on Raystown Lake, Pa
Boat Info
restored 1976 SRV200
Engines
188 Mercruiser I/O
So Volvo Penta has teamed up with a couple design groups to build a girl friendly boat. Things like heads, galleys and engine areas were sited as major problems for lady boaters.
So if there are any comments that would help design a boat that Admirals would be happy to be on, I will forward to the design team.
BTW if the Admiral is happy then life on the boat is much easier.

Women boat.jpg

This is one ugly boat in my opinion so lets help build something cool and usable.
 
Yep, Just keep the mechanical part of the boat simple for them.


And by the way that boat looks like a used tampon. :wow: . :lol:
 
That thing look like a sailboat with no mast! I always thought that would be the perfect charter boat.
Renting sailboats is now more popular than ever, but people never use the sails because they don’t know a thing about sailing or there’s no wind.
A mastless sailboat with small economic engine doing some 8 kts would be perfect, though just ugly!
So I can imagine six eight scantily dressed girls on it… and me passing by :grin:
 
Galley's, engine rooms? Boats don't get girl friendly until they're over 50 feet with a hired crew and ensuite!
 
I prefer "boat friendly girls"... :grin:

Paul
 
what girlie girl would know what she was looking at in an engine room anyways? honestly I think what they really care about is colors, style, fabric patterns, accessories, safety....and how "cute" it all is. my wife doesn't fit the mold, she either cares how fast it is and what kind of great v8 rumble it makes, or how big the galley is and how big the cockpit is for entertaining. about the only real girlie thing she ever mentions is how she'd love to have a seperate shower and "real" toilet.
 
Mine complains about not having enough storage in the galley. And that the sheets are hard to change. And the anchor chain wakes her up when the boat swings in the wind when we're out on a hook. And she hits her head on the ceiling when she's on ...nevermind.

She's never complained about my engine area though...come to think of it, not sure she even knows we have engines.
 
Very true. I am not sure my Admiral knows how many engines are in our boat. For a Cuddy cabin; we have a pretty big head, and she still hates to use it. For her, she would want to convert the entire area forward into a big seating area (she is into those big 30' bow riders).
 
A girl friendly boat would....

~~have a tiny engine because the gals would only want to sit at the dock and drink martinis so a big engine isn't needed
~~be made out of some type of dense foam so when they run into other boats or a dock it won't hurt anything
~~come with all matching and color coordinated dock lines, fenders and PFD's
~~have a GPS that has all the Macy's, Nordstrom's, Bloomingdale's shown as waypoints
~~come with a "dock boy" to use at their pleasure. I'm thinking of volunteering for this position.
 
Gofirstclass said:
A girl friendly boat would....

~~have a tiny engine because the gals would only want to sit at the dock and drink martinis so a big engine isn't needed
~~be made out of some type of dense foam so when they run into other boats or a dock it won't hurt anything
~~come with all matching and color coordinated dock lines, fenders and PFD's
~~have a GPS that has all the Macy's, Nordstrom's, Bloomingdale's shown as waypoints
~~come with a "dock boy" to use at their pleasure. I'm thinking of volunteering for this position.
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Correction, a girl friendly boat is EXACTLY like mine! My wife, a female, loves the boat and has me to maintain it, run it, dock it, wash it, etc. what more would a girl want?
 
HUMPH said:
Correction, a girl friendly boat is EXACTLY like mine! My wife, a female, loves the boat and has me to maintain it, run it, dock it, wash it, etc. what more would a girl want?
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A better looking, richer captain!:smt043
 
Gofirstclass said:
A girl friendly boat would....

~~have a tiny engine because the gals would only want to sit at the dock and drink martinis so a big engine isn't needed
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Not always true! My gal likes to go out for dinner. Sometimes it is cooler, or we are moving ahead of a storm. In those cases. . . big engines are needed!

Gofirstclass said:
~~be made out of some type of dense foam so when they run into other boats or a dock it won't hurt anything
~~come with all matching and color coordinated dock lines, fenders and PFD's
~~have a GPS that has all the Macy's, Nordstrom's, Bloomingdale's shown as waypoints
~~come with a "dock boy" to use at their pleasure. I'm thinking of volunteering for this position.
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I can relate to the foam part. She gets far more tense in tough docking situations than I do. And I am the one at the throttles!
 
Interesting comments but where are all our Lady boaters? The boat shown is only a rendering and I think Pietro has the best description of it. I don't even want to know how you know that about tampons Wayne.:wow::lol:
 
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