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Prudence (was) @!#$^&*()_#$%^@#$^&!!!
"Skip Gundlach"
skipgundlach.sez.remove.this.and.the.dots.to.mail wrote: Hi, again, Rosalie and group, "Rosalie B." wrote in message news  (story clipped) I consider it is my 'job' to be the spoiler (so to speak) to make sure that we don't get into situations like that. But in this case, I allowed him to persuade me when I should have insisted that we stay. Ah, but were you 'pressured' - or did you agree with the assessment, and find, only later, when you were in it, that it was incorrect? In any case, I'm pretty conservative. Until we've been shown to be mistaken (by being caught out, as is unavoidable) about our advisability to do something, we're going to keep it safe. That's why, even though I was quite certain the boat could do more, we started on staysail and double reef in our 25-30knot/8-10feet first couple of days :{)) I didn't agree with him. I don't know if you could say I was pressured or not - he didn't actually give me an ultimatum or anything. He just kept saying stuff like "It doesn't look too bad out there" and I knew he wanted to leave and I didn't want to upset him. But I didn't agree - I just didn't have enough information to make non-agreement stick. Part of it was that I was a bit anxious about getting back on the boat anyway, and was quite a bit more fearful than usual, so I tended to discount my own assessment because of that. I wanted to go to Great Harbour and he wasn't so interested in doing that, and I had not realized that the direction of the wind would make going there almost impossible. Now, he really has to convince me if I have any doubts at all. This has led to his complaining that I never want to sail. grandma Rosalie |
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