"Rosalie B." wrote in message
...

No - there has never been such a time.

How would you know? All you women want to do is turn men into your idea
of a man. In other words, girly-men! Your desire is equality. Your idea
of equality is a man equally as inept when it comes to manly behavior as
a woman is when it comes to manly behavior.

Only inadequate men who are
afraid to admit their faults will shrink from telling their mistakes.

Wrong again, only girly-men have faults or make mistakes they enjoy
bragging about in a public forum. Real men have pride. Real men realize
they will make mistakes but they have as a priority correcting their
mistakes so they don't happen again. You don't have to share you
mistakes in order to correct them. Girly-men make the same mistake time
and time again and they talk about their mistakes as if they are proud
they just keep making them because nothing else is possible for them or
expected of them. This is not how a real man behaves or what a real
woman would accept as manly behavior.

When is the last time you read a magazine story of any sportsman
bragging about how badly he screwed up? Does the NASCAR driver brag
about constantly running off the race course or running out of gas or
spinning out in a corner? Does the big game hunter brag about how many
times he missed the shot or got trampled by elephants? Does the mountain
climber brag about how often his belay lines carry away because he
blotched placing his pitons? Does the private investigator brag about
how badly he blotched an investigation so a criminal went free? Does a
doctor in a medical journal joke about his operating on the wrong leg or
sewing his scapal within the body cavity? Does the airline pilot brag
about all his close calls with respect to crashing head-on into another
airplane? No they do not and they will not. Why is this sordid and
insane behavior considered something to be proud of when it comes to
sailing or cruising? Is it because sailor's have grown up reading
girly-man sailing magazines that print this kind of trash in order to
further their agenda of continuing the trend of turning entire
generations of men into girly-men? I think so. What other reason for it
can there be?


Besides which - I'm not a sailor as I have often said. We didn't get
out of our depth to the point that we needed rescue. We rescued
ourselves. We didn't go south in a group relying on others to plan
for us - we did our own planning. And we were basically successful.


"We rescued ourselves?" Next time try learning how to not screw up so
self-rescue or any other kind of rescue is not required. Lose the
attitude that screwing up is normal fare. It's not! In all my years of
sailing (over 20 years now and thousands of miles river, coastal and
offshore) I have yet to need a rescue either from myself or from anybody
else. That's the way it should be. I have never called for a tow. I have
never hit another boat. I have never dragged anchor and caused anybody
any trouble because of it. I have never been dismasted. I have never
been out of commission because of motor problems. I have never run out
of fuel. I've never been lost. I've never been storm-damaged other than
being struck by lightning which is an act of God. I have never ever. I
believe in the old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure.

Wilbur Hubbard
In omnia paratus