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Shame and debasement
Frank Boettcher wrote: On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, " wrote: Don White wrote: wrote: snip.. They tow us to the dock and I go to pay. By this time I was seriously happy to be off the boat with my wife so even *the astonishing cost of $480* didn't faze me much. It was $10/ft for the ungrounding (28' sailboat) and then $165 minimum and a couple other fees. snip... Whoo hoo! Around here the Coast Guard...or some friendly boater will always come to the rescue...for free. Re-thinking this, I regret posting it. It has me blaming my wife for my predicament when I had nobody but myslf to blame. If I had displayed much more confidence and a fun atitude I could probably have talked my wife into enjoying the overnight grounding. Unfortunately, I consider sailing to be an excercise in problem solving so I do not sail for the same reasons she does. I DID invite her. I apologize. David OHara Tough day, but been there. You should know better. You sail in keel scraping land to start with and you got a north wind. Bars become islands, charts are suspect, and you can rarely get through a sail without a bump and a "where the hell did that come from". Fortunately, never had my wife with me while I waited for a southwest wind and the tide to bring back the water. if the specs were biting or I could get my cast net over some smoking mullet, it never bothered me to wait it out. Frank Well, she wasnt too mad at me and was understanding about my loss of pride. In retrospect, I really need to put the dinghy oars back aboard now that I have painted them. I woulda kedged off as I have done before if i had any way to get the anchor far enough from the boat. With the dinghy, this woulda been no problem. Getting down the narrow canal woulda been easy too with the dinghy cuz I coulda just rowed a line to a down-canal dock and pulled her down the canal (been there, done that). It turns out that spending the night out woulda been bad cuz it got rough last night although being in the shallows only 1/2 mile off shore from where the wind was blowing would have been ok. Still, it turns out that the forecast for the next few days is 20-25 out of the north, really weird. SO, she was right to want to get towed. Ive never paid any attention to tow boats cuz I never thought I'd need a tow so the sticker shock was real. Getting a good look at it, the SeaTow boat was impressive for its size. I gave the impression that my wife is a wimp and she is not. In fact, she was very concerned that I had gotten that impression of her. We have been married 27 years and our first date was a canoe trip where we canoed at night through continous thunderstorms cuz the river flooded. On our honeymoon, we spent 90 days in a backpacking tent in NM, CO, and WY. On our Honeymoon, in a rockclimbing accident, she broke her arm, chipped her hip bone and broke her toe yet still slept in the tent till the snow was collapsing it each night. In a caving rapelling accident, she once fell 70 feet burning all the skin off her hands from gripping the rope before I caught her fall. She has had 3 kids. Kathy cannot sail but is no wimp. |
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Shame and debasement
On 20 Nov 2006 07:26:52 -0800, "
wrote: Frank Boettcher wrote: On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, " wrote: Don White wrote: wrote: snip.. They tow us to the dock and I go to pay. By this time I was seriously happy to be off the boat with my wife so even *the astonishing cost of $480* didn't faze me much. It was $10/ft for the ungrounding (28' sailboat) and then $165 minimum and a couple other fees. snip... Whoo hoo! Around here the Coast Guard...or some friendly boater will always come to the rescue...for free. Re-thinking this, I regret posting it. It has me blaming my wife for my predicament when I had nobody but myslf to blame. If I had displayed much more confidence and a fun atitude I could probably have talked my wife into enjoying the overnight grounding. Unfortunately, I consider sailing to be an excercise in problem solving so I do not sail for the same reasons she does. I DID invite her. I apologize. David OHara Tough day, but been there. You should know better. You sail in keel scraping land to start with and you got a north wind. Bars become islands, charts are suspect, and you can rarely get through a sail without a bump and a "where the hell did that come from". Fortunately, never had my wife with me while I waited for a southwest wind and the tide to bring back the water. if the specs were biting or I could get my cast net over some smoking mullet, it never bothered me to wait it out. Frank snipped it.. Kathy cannot sail but is no wimp. Sheri the same, will hike and backpack with me, wants me to get a reservation to hike the Grand Canyon. Has had and raised three kids. And although she likes to go, she cannot sail and has no desire to learn. I used to give her the "you've been on boats for thirty years and still don't know the difference between a sheet and a halyard" but now I just consider her a passenger and don't expect anything else. Far less fighting aboard. Frank |
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