On Sat, 29 May 2010 19:41:51 -0700, Mark Borgerson
wrote:

In article s.com,
says...
"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
...
I get a kick out of them. I don't read them all, but I enjoy the ones I
do read. Further, your posts have convinced me that the cruising life is
not something I'd enjoy. I like boating, but not the endless maintenance
what you do seems to entail.



Skippy doesn't know what the real cruising life is all about. His main
problem is his boat's too big and complicated and he's got it loaded with
every conceivable, lubberly, unnecessary and breakdown prone
"convenience" which always turns out to be quite inconvenient when it
breaks down and he has to repair or replace it. Hence, he's become a
systems slave.

So, don't get the wrong idea. Cruising should be simple and relatively
trouble free. A real cruiser spends the majority of his time sitting in
the cockpit observing and tweaking his sails while scanning the horizon.
Next is food and beverage consumption. Following that is sleep.
Maintenance constitutes perhaps 2% of his time.

And, a real cruiser leaves the distaff side home where she belongs. Women
on sailboats require too much pampering and they take up too much space
and they consume way excessively such scarce resources such as fresh
water. Not only that, but they bring bad luck.


Wilbur Hubbard
(spends more time drinking beer than working on failed and failing
systems)


Would you quit whining about Skip and do something your own bad self?

I *LIKE* having women on board!



Women are nest builders. Every real man knows that.

A sailboat is the very poorest of nests and no woman will be really happy
and fulfilled cruising long-term in such an insecure and transient
contraption. Buy the woman a nice home ashore and visit her from time to
time as a break from cruising and both man and woman will be the happier for
it.

Larry Pardey would probably disagree with you. He's got the miles and
years at sea to make his opinion count.


Mark Borgerson


And I believe that Lin agrees with him :-)