Extremely NEW!

[Water_buoy]

I'm a long time participant in Yahoo's Sailing room. It has turned into a room of bots and perverts. I have owned boats for 40 years and now and have lived on my trawler for 3 years. I live in the Savannah GA. area, so if anyone out there wants to chat, give me a shout.

[Oilstain]

I can't believe no one has said this yet: If your significant other doesn't respect the fact that you are scared, and thinks you are silly, you have way bigger problems than sailing.

If you are determined to learn to sail, enroll in a class. I promise, instructors will not think your fears are silly.

If you are determined to stay with someone who doesn't care enough to listen to you, don't complain, that's YOUR choice. Knowingly scaring someone is abusive.

[sailingdog]

I'd also highly recommend The Complete Sailor, which is by David Seidman, which is very well written, easy to read, with amusing, but very clear drawings.

Jeana/SusieQ-

If your significant others can't honor your requests and help you get accustomed to sailing, then they need a good whack upside the head.

[John Fritzen]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

I'd also highly recommend The Complete Sailor, which is by David Seidman, which is very well written, easy to read, with amusing, but very clear drawings.

Jeana/SusieQ-

If your significant others can't honor your requests and help you get accustomed to sailing, then they need a good whack upside the head.

I second that book. Fantastic.

[Pirate's Booty]

I love the stories I just read on this thread! They are so entertaining.

I happen to be a woman who loves boats, and I just got a very large and very slow house boat and I wish I could take you both for a ride - we would just stay in the harbor and have dinner and wine on the top deck (almost no wind inside there and if you don't like the rocking - just have some more wine!) That was the perfect cure for my 2 girl friends who both get sea sick when they caem to visit!

And then we could swap stories about our silly men.

Luckily, both me and my fellow love the new boat so far, but we have had our share of disagreements none-the-less. As we are new too, he makes me so nervous when he just starts fiddling with all the controls and tries to run stuff that we have no idea how to run.

Last weekend, he was fussing with the swtiches near the steering wheel and later that night all our electricity went out - I almost kicked him off the boat - I was SO mad!
It ended up that it wasn't his fault - but I like to blame him any way.

The other annoying thing he insists on is trying to start the motors when one is missing a very important part. He keeps just reving them because he likes to hear the sound.

MEN!!! I swear some days I want to shoot him!

Thanks for your fun comments - hope to hear more stories soon!

[gabachojefe]

Yeah, I gotta agree with Sailingdog... your men need a good swift kick in the...