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L. Francis Herreshoff gave you all the advice you need on this topic
well over 50 years ago. Don't balme anyone but yourself if you fail
to follow it!
The following is taken from "Sensible Cruising Designs". In it
Herreshoff not only shares a dozen or so of his wonderfull boat
designs, but in the building notes for H-28 gives sensible advice on
everything form choosing motors and marine heads, to eating and
choosing compainions. Here are a few thoughts on "Companions and
Crew":(Women, if offended by the begining, please push on to the end)
Watch out also for those females who are triced up and gasketed-in in
some futile attempt to alter their model from that of a Hanseatic
Cog to a Whitehead torpedo, for if called on deck early in the
morning to hear the birds caroling overhead, they will be about as
good natured as a hermit crabs snapped out of it shell, which was
built by another. Beware also of those beauties who are periodically
rebuilt and refitteed at the dockyard of some beautician whose only
ambition is to look "killing" and whose murderous claws are painted
as if they ware an accessory to the act. These females may be all
right if you can afford a steam yacht with a French maid to assemble
them in the morning and unrig them at night, but on H-28 there will
be no room for their spare gear and top hamper, and they will affect
the smooth working in the H-28 like a monkey wrench in the crank
case.
But there are girls (God bless them) who can take it, are real
companions and help mates; who can stand a trick at the tiller or the
gallery. That's the kind that's right up our alley. If you have
some kind of life contract or agreement with such a one, you had
better build a golden halo around her in you minds eye, and let her
know it once in awhile, for you and she working together can bring
about all the pleasure, charm, and melody there is in a craft
like H- 28.
