Bart speculated:
Perhaps I should post a sign--no women on board without a WM gift
certificate! I bet they would bring them.

We all have out little fantasies....
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

How dark a grey were your decks, Joe? Mine are a mix of white
with light grey--like my topsides, boot and cove stripes.

I can only estimate the difference between the white topsides
and the old navy blue. With navy blue topsides, the sweat
poured off me like a water hose. The only time I have felt
hotter was pulling 3.5 negative gees in humid 98 degree weather
in a T-37.

With the white topsides and a fan or two, it is has been slightly
sweaty when I was working, and comfortable when I'm relaxing.
particularly, when the sun was not at its peak, the boat is now
very comfortable.

Bart

Joe wrote
DSK wrote
Bart Senior wrote:

then navy blue. Now it is Caribbean white to keep it cooler.
I preferred the Navy blue it had when I bought it, but it was
too hot inside.

Makes a bigger difference than people would believe.

Make a big difference here in Texas. Being a X navy man I had to have
haze gray deck when I bought my boat. Once it got to hot to walk on I
decided to go with white. Now the AC's keep the boat cool and acually
cycle off once and a while. The temp inside dropped 20 degrees the day
I painted the decks white.

Joe

DSK

This is sooo true! So, one must cultivate aloofness without complete
lack of interest. It's an art form.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
.. .
I find that if I act interested in a woman, the woman will lose interest
in
me.
When I am not interested at all, like when I have a steady girlfriend, or
I'm
just too busy to date, they suddenly get interested. It's proof that
women
don't think logically, but rather react to being ignored by turning up the
heat. Any man will tell you that.

Lately I've been telling women I have no money to date. The inside of the
boat is a mess--I really don't want visitors right now. Yet twice in two
weeks women have dropped by the boat with a bottle of wine and romantic
notions. This time of year boats are better bait than a Corvette.

Now if I could only get them to stop by with West Marine gift
certificates!
Perhaps I should post a sign--no women on board without a WM gift
certificate! I bet they would bring them.

Bart

katysails wrote
Last winter I couldn't get a date.

That's weird....you seem like a nice guy...maybe you weren't looking in
the
right places? Know what you mean though...a lady stopped Mr Sails in
the
parking lot of the grocery store when she saw our yacht club parking
sticker
on the rear bumper of my car...she started yammering to him about how
much
she enjoyed sailing yadyada and didn't see me crouched down behind the
door,
picking something up off the ground....I stood up and he immediately
said
"
It's my wife's boat...."

Jon claimed:
one must cultivate aloofness

Methinks a little more fertilizer might help your aloofness along....
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Is that why a lot of women are attracted to gay men?

SV

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
...
This is sooo true! So, one must cultivate aloofness without complete
lack of interest. It's an art form.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
.. .
I find that if I act interested in a woman, the woman will lose interest
in
me.
When I am not interested at all, like when I have a steady girlfriend,
or
I'm
just too busy to date, they suddenly get interested. It's proof that
women
don't think logically, but rather react to being ignored by turning up
the
heat. Any man will tell you that.

Lately I've been telling women I have no money to date. The inside of
the
boat is a mess--I really don't want visitors right now. Yet twice in
two
weeks women have dropped by the boat with a bottle of wine and romantic
notions. This time of year boats are better bait than a Corvette.

Now if I could only get them to stop by with West Marine gift
certificates!
Perhaps I should post a sign--no women on board without a WM gift
certificate! I bet they would bring them.

Bart

katysails wrote
Last winter I couldn't get a date.

That's weird....you seem like a nice guy...maybe you weren't looking
in
the
right places? Know what you mean though...a lady stopped Mr Sails in
the
parking lot of the grocery store when she saw our yacht club parking
sticker
on the rear bumper of my car...she started yammering to him about how
much
she enjoyed sailing yadyada and didn't see me crouched down behind the
door,
picking something up off the ground....I stood up and he immediately
said
"
It's my wife's boat...."

Jon claimed:
one must cultivate aloofness

katysails wrote:
Methinks a little more fertilizer might help your aloofness along....

And it would help explain the shovel marks on his forehead

DSK

I looked up the base PHRF ratings for New England.

http://www.phrfne.org/baseh.htm

And I was pleased to see this!

ERICSON 46 72

Similar to this!

SWAN 47 72

Well, it does help to shovel them some sh*t from time to time. :-)

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"katysails" wrote in message
...
Jon claimed:
one must cultivate aloofness

Methinks a little more fertilizer might help your aloofness along....
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Don't know... ask Horass?

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
Is that why a lot of women are attracted to gay men?

SV

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
...
This is sooo true! So, one must cultivate aloofness without complete
lack of interest. It's an art form.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
.. .
I find that if I act interested in a woman, the woman will lose
interest
in
me.
When I am not interested at all, like when I have a steady girlfriend,
or
I'm
just too busy to date, they suddenly get interested. It's proof that
women
don't think logically, but rather react to being ignored by turning up
the
heat. Any man will tell you that.

Lately I've been telling women I have no money to date. The inside of
the
boat is a mess--I really don't want visitors right now. Yet twice in
two
weeks women have dropped by the boat with a bottle of wine and
romantic
notions. This time of year boats are better bait than a Corvette.

Now if I could only get them to stop by with West Marine gift
certificates!
Perhaps I should post a sign--no women on board without a WM gift
certificate! I bet they would bring them.

Bart

katysails wrote
Last winter I couldn't get a date.

That's weird....you seem like a nice guy...maybe you weren't looking
in
the
right places? Know what you mean though...a lady stopped Mr Sails
in
the
parking lot of the grocery store when she saw our yacht club parking
sticker
on the rear bumper of my car...she started yammering to him about
how
much
she enjoyed sailing yadyada and didn't see me crouched down behind
the
door,
picking something up off the ground....I stood up and he immediately
said
"
It's my wife's boat...."

I duck better than that.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"DSK" wrote in message
...
Jon claimed:
one must cultivate aloofness

katysails wrote:
Methinks a little more fertilizer might help your aloofness along....

And it would help explain the shovel marks on his forehead

DSK