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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Women on the Water
JAXAshby@XXX.XXX
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 08:25:01 EDT
In a message dated 4/9/2003 11:38:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gmbeasley@XXX.XXX writes:
> >Hi, everyone...
> >
> >I've been mostly a lurker here for 2 or 3 years, I guess -- my hubby and I
>
> >live aboard in the Pacific North-West.
> >
> >I'm sponsoring a project this summer, and I need to do a little 'research'
>
> >which I'm hoping ...
>
> Women, by and large, tend to be afraid of "mechanical things" much more
> than men and they almost always consider a sailboat to be a "mechanical
> thing". Sailboats tend to terrify women, or so I've been told by some
> women who claimed tobe speaking for all women.
>
> That means women tend to be safer, at least less unsafe, the bigger the
> sailboat, not to mention the closer to shore the boat stays (indeed, 100
> feet from shore is "safer" than a quarter of a mile which is safer than a
> half mile). This brings something of a problem because not only are there
> very few BIG sailboats out there (say 50+ feet) but such boats are damned
> expensive to buy and maintain and near to impossible for one person to
> handle in anything but mostly benign weather (I had a woman who claimed to
> be looking for a genuinely deep relationship with a guy with the express
> intention of going cruising again who stated no boat under 40 feet was big
> enough for two people and she wouldn't consider any boat under 50 feet.
> This dispite the fact her prior cruising experience was on a Westsail 32
> with her then husband and they "were always broke" and had to give up the
> lifestyle because of it) In addition, I was told by the woman originally
> mentioned above that women think they are going to take 50 pairs of shoes
> and 20 or 30 outfits for the social life and so want lots and lots of
> closet space.
>
> The above is not true of course for all women (I personally know a
> highly-experienced couple who pulled into Block Island, stayed three days
> before sailing on and not once did either of them leave the boat, "nothing
> to do on Block, she said"), but is most often true of beginners.
>
> I think most men sail using their muscles and do so without even thinking
> about it (men usually have muscles, and certainly I head such of a number
> of women, but just thought they were butterying me up until I heard my
> non-sailing brother say the same thing.) Few women indeed are as strong
> as a man (I personally like the way women look without muscles, just as I
> like the way women walk and talk and breathe and and and) but if a woman
> thinks it takes muscles to sail she can be worried she might not be up to
> if the guy gets sick or falls overboard and the winds get stronger or they
> get to far away from shore to swim for it or if she can't swim, etc.
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