"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
news.com...


Then there's the Capt. Skippy philosophy which runs mostly counter to
everything espoused by the good Capt. Neal. Skippy is a relative newcomer
who lacks insight and experience and has had a long litany of
full-of-trouble cruising fiascos up to and including severe damage to his
hull from groundings. While Capt. Skippy does live aboard and has sold his
home ashore, he still has not cut the umbilical cord because his wife's
mother lives ashore and her house is their house when necessary. Skippy is
almost as concerned with shore side birthday celebrations and weddings as
anything else. This also means a woman and sometimes more than one woman
aboard. (and a mother-in-law to boot, yuck!) This means probably an extra
TWO TONs of useless lubberly crap that goes along with a woman and caters
to a woman's fickle desires. This means more systems and more maintenance
and less reliability and less sailing time. This means schedules and lots
of motoring to meet schedules. This means great expense, cramped spaces,
inefficiency, encumbrance, dependence and a willing, weak-spined, male
attitude. It also indicates shared responsibility and delegating to an
inferior sailor and betting your life on the fact that the inferiority
won't put you under. It practically guarantees that every cruise or voyage
will become a comedy of errors that any magazine would relish publishing
to make modern sailors all appear a lot of fools.

Poor Skippy!


Wilbur Hubbard

Wilbur, you know I like your satires.

But at least get your facts straight before you stretch them.

You certainly know that Lydia's mother lives in England. You may have
missed, however, that she's visiting the son of her two dearest high school
friends.

That's until we get on the boat, with her - at, perhaps, 87 years old, she
having a birthday soon - aboard, to resume cruising.

You also know that we don't do "schedules" - which is why we're still here
in the yard - the schedule to be at Stranded Naked, the schedule to be out
of the yard before hurricane season, and all the other "schedules" which
might have been interesting to achieve.

As to "Poor" me, I'm having the time of my life. The boat's in better nick
than it's ever been during our ownership, and many very serious age-related
(the boat, not mine!!) issues have been put to bed not only professionally
but beautifully. My apologies for not having gotten pictures of some of the
latest up yet, but I'll get to that some time soon, now that the time
pressure of dry weather (caulking) has passed...

I hope you're having as much fun as we are, and will, also, continue in that
vein as we again hit the high seas and continue our explorations. I don't
lament others' lifestyles, but you're sorely tempting me :{))

BTW, I've enjoyed all the chatter essentially off topic, and have not
responded until now to let it die down a bit...

L8R

Skip, moving on to the next project...

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