"Bruce" wrote in message
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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
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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 :-)




Oh, give me a freaking BREAK! One rare exception does not a rule prove.


Wilbur Hubbard.

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Bruce" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 29 May 2010 19:41:51 -0700, Mark Borgerson
wrote:

In article s.com,
llid 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 :-)




Oh, give me a freaking BREAK! One rare exception does not a rule prove.


Wilbur Hubbard.



There's no rule there, Wilbur.
Only decades old repression of half the population.



--

Richard Lamb

In article s.com,
llid says...
"Bruce" wrote in message
...
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 :-)




Oh, give me a freaking BREAK! One rare exception does not a rule prove.


No, but one exception is all it takes to disprove absolute statements
like those you made. It there is one exception, then we have to ask
how many others are there and why haven't you run into any of them?


Mark Borgerson

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


Oh, give me a freaking BREAK! One rare exception does not a rule prove.


Nothing worse than the pseudo-educated flapping their jaws.
The exception proves OUT the rule.

Jim - Learned that at hard-knock school. 1st grade.

Nothing worse than the pseudo-educated flapping their jaws.
The exception proves OUT the rule.

Jim - Learned that at hard-knock school. *1st grade.


Help me out here Jim. Im not sure what you mean by .......proves OUT
the rule......

Do you mean it .... supports the rule?
or
does not support the rule?

I dont know what you mean by proves out. I assum that its a quirk to
your local dialect. Are you from texas or the south? or have parents
from that area. Im interested in the origin your word choice.
Bob

Bob wrote:
Nothing worse than the pseudo-educated flapping their jaws.
The exception proves OUT the rule.

Jim - Learned that at hard-knock school. 1st grade.


Help me out here Jim. Im not sure what you mean by .......proves OUT
the rule......

Do you mean it .... supports the rule?
or
does not support the rule?

I dont know what you mean by proves out. I assum that its a quirk to
your local dialect. Are you from texas or the south? or have parents
from that area. Im interested in the origin your word choice.
Bob

It's scientific and logical. Means "proves invalid."
As in toss it out.
Read it somewhere in reference to this old saw.
Of course I could have misread or misremembered.
That's possible. Or maybe what I read was plain wrong-headed.
But I don't want to get all arcane and tangled up here.
Wouldn't be right.
I bet Neal says things like "I could care less" too.

Jim - It's raining cats and dogs here right now.