Teaching a loved one to sail
NE Sailboat wrote:
Just send her to the club house, she will take up with the towel boy ... soon you will be done with her. Then you can go sailing with "men" ... big blond men, men with muscles, men that wear little bathing suits that show their things ,,,, A jolly ho ho and a bottle or rum ... pass the bree Bruce. You getting him mixed up with Jax? |
Teaching a loved one to sail
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oups.com: There is a lotta "feel" that goes into this that I cannot explain. Just as you would send your daughter to a good driver training class, rather than try to teach her how to drive, yourself, and ruining your relationship with her....wouldn't it be prudent, not to mention a smooth move to save a marriage, to send the wife to a good sailing school to learn how to sail? DO NOT FORCE HER, which will never work. She might not like sailing at all, but doesn't want to hurt your feelings....any more than you do because YOU don't like to go shopping for clothes, like she loves. ONLY if she's truly interested in boats and sailing....should she be sailing with a crusty old pirate like YOU...shouting orders and cursing like Captain Blythe from his lofty perch to the slaves on the deck below, anyways. (I'm betting she's not interested, never having laid eyes on her.) Larry -- Heading out in the morning to retrieve a "few" hundred gallons more FREE FUEL for the Frybrids. I got enough stored now to run a Hatteras 60 to Europe! |
Teaching a loved one to sail
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:31:23 -0500, Larry wrote:
Heading out in the morning to retrieve a "few" hundred gallons more FREE FUEL for the Frybrids. I got enough stored now to run a Hatteras 60 to Europe! How do you store all of that? Running a big Hatt to Europe could easily take 9,000 gallons or more. |
Teaching a loved one to sail
O'Hara,
Read your "shame and debasement" post and was stunned that you have failed to train a crew. If you fell overboard everyone might die. I bet your wife can cook, drive a car, etc. so why can't she sail? Clearly she is capable of learning stuff. Rather than trying to analyze and correct your teaching skills send your wife to a school run by someone with a reputation for competence. The goal is for her to learn how to sail not for you to learn how to teach. I'm assuming here that your wife does want to learn how to sail. Dave M. |
Teaching a loved one to sail
David Martel wrote: O'Hara, Read your "shame and debasement" post and was stunned that you have failed to train a crew. If you fell overboard everyone might die. I bet your wife can cook, drive a car, etc. so why can't she sail? Clearly she is capable of learning stuff. Rather than trying to analyze and correct your teaching skills send your wife to a school run by someone with a reputation for competence. The goal is for her to learn how to sail not for you to learn how to teach. I'm assuming here that your wife does want to learn how to sail. Dave M. I do not sail with my wife much. I mostly sail single handed where I use a harness. Even with my wife, I wear an auto-inflatable lifejacket with personal EPIRB. She simply has little desire to sail. |
Teaching a loved one to sail
wrote in message ups.com... David Martel wrote: O'Hara, Read your "shame and debasement" post and was stunned that you have failed to train a crew. If you fell overboard everyone might die. I bet your wife can cook, drive a car, etc. so why can't she sail? Clearly she is capable of learning stuff. Rather than trying to analyze and correct your teaching skills send your wife to a school run by someone with a reputation for competence. The goal is for her to learn how to sail not for you to learn how to teach. I'm assuming here that your wife does want to learn how to sail. Dave M. I do not sail with my wife much. I mostly sail single handed where I use a harness. Even with my wife, I wear an auto-inflatable lifejacket with personal EPIRB. She simply has little desire to sail. Time to trade it in for a nice power boat. ;-) |
Teaching a loved one to sail
JimH wrote: wrote in message ups.com... David Martel wrote: O'Hara, Read your "shame and debasement" post and was stunned that you have failed to train a crew. If you fell overboard everyone might die. I bet your wife can cook, drive a car, etc. so why can't she sail? Clearly she is capable of learning stuff. Rather than trying to analyze and correct your teaching skills send your wife to a school run by someone with a reputation for competence. The goal is for her to learn how to sail not for you to learn how to teach. I'm assuming here that your wife does want to learn how to sail. Dave M. I do not sail with my wife much. I mostly sail single handed where I use a harness. Even with my wife, I wear an auto-inflatable lifejacket with personal EPIRB. She simply has little desire to sail. Time to trade it in for a nice power boat. ;-) Why, I like sailing? Besides, i will soon have a power boat too. |
Teaching a loved one to sail
wrote in message ups.com... JimH wrote: wrote in message ups.com... David Martel wrote: O'Hara, Read your "shame and debasement" post and was stunned that you have failed to train a crew. If you fell overboard everyone might die. I bet your wife can cook, drive a car, etc. so why can't she sail? Clearly she is capable of learning stuff. Rather than trying to analyze and correct your teaching skills send your wife to a school run by someone with a reputation for competence. The goal is for her to learn how to sail not for you to learn how to teach. I'm assuming here that your wife does want to learn how to sail. Dave M. I do not sail with my wife much. I mostly sail single handed where I use a harness. Even with my wife, I wear an auto-inflatable lifejacket with personal EPIRB. She simply has little desire to sail. Time to trade it in for a nice power boat. ;-) Why, I like sailing? Besides, i will soon have a power boat too. It was a joke..........a joke..........get it? Hmmm... Based on your 'Shame and Debasement" story and how you treated your wife you need to take a couple of steps back and chill out. Life is too short guy. ;-) |
Teaching a loved one to sail
O'Hara,
You will probably never teach your wife to sail nor will she take lessons. Ok, see if there is a "sailing camp" for kids. Expect the kid to say "that's not what they taught us in camp" a lot. Dave M. |
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