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    Posted: 03 Jun 14 at 10:22am
Originally posted by winging it


At the risk of stating the obvious and spoiling the testosterone feeding frenzy, why not invest in some lessons for your wife using a club or centre's training boat?  Once she has been taught to sail by someone else (very much your preferred option unless you know a good divorce lawyer) BOTH of you will be much better placed to choose a boat you both like.
The 2000 is a great boat with a fantastic race circuit, but can seem a tad sedate after a while.  It would also be a great trainer boat for an RS400 and there's a healthy second hand market.  2000 this year, 400 next year?



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Originally posted by canoeslicer

Thank you for assuming that I don't have her enjoyment at heart and that my marriage isn't strong enough for me to teach her bits and pieces. All I can say is I feel sorry that yours is not.


I don't believe anyone was suggesting your marriage isn't strong. We are all speaking from our own bitter experience, and remembering other incidents witnessed all too often. It is a frequent outcome, just like the arguments (or mutual terror) you get with parents teaching kids to drive a car!

If you are teaching someone how to crew for you, outside of a competitive environment (rather than how to helm, or how to perform in a race) then I expect it will be much less of an issue.
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Originally posted by canoeslicer


Thank you for assuming that I don't have her enjoyment at heart and that my marriage isn't strong enough for me to teach her bits and pieces. All I can say is I feel sorry that yours is not.

My comment was not based on any assumptions about your marriage but rather very many years as a senior  sailing instructor where I have seen plenty of in-boat arguments test the ties of many a strong partnership. 

 This thread is full of assumptions about what women want as sailors, most of them flawed.  Oh, and while I'm here, thank you for assuming these posts are only read and replied to by men.   Clap
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Originally posted by winging it

 Oh, and while I'm here, thank you for assuming these posts are only read and replied to by men.   Clap
...even if that is, unfortunately, true 99% of the time.
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Originally posted by winging it

 This thread is full of assumptions about what women want as sailors, most of them flawed.  

And therein lies a very good question for another thread.  Ironically enough there's some not dissimilar chat on the D-Zero Facebook page.  

When it comes to my wife, We used to have an RS200 - we sailed it 3 times at the puddle before she said it was a sh*t way to spend a saturday.  That was before kids and I never shouted.  

Now her idea of great sailing involves lots of sunshine, chilled wine, nice sandwiches and comfy cushions.  Our girls love spending time on our boat too, usually when the paddling pool is in cockpit and windsurf board is tied up as a swimming platform off the marina somewhere... the fact that I occasionally put the pressure on to free the mooring warps once in a while is seen as a mild inconvenience to the whole process, but hey ho, beggars can't be choosers.  
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Then I must apologise for how I read your post this morning hasn't been a good day so far and you didn't deserve me venting at you.
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We have a similar problem as that is how my wife currently does her sailing, laying on the foredeck of a little toy with a ice bucket, glass and bottle. Lol.
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Originally posted by canoeslicer

We have a similar problem as that is how my wife currently does her sailing, laying on the foredeck of a little toy with a ice bucket, glass and bottle. Lol.

That is my wifes idea of sailing too...except her last trip out was on a maxi yacht in the Whitsunday Islands.......
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As a man who's wife tried to teach him to sail many years ago( it did not go well! LOL) I can only agree with the advice about about getting a third party to teach your partner to sail, then thinking about what boat/boats to get.

Elaine and I still cannot race together in the same boat LOL, but we have had over twenty of fun and enjoyment sailing against each other, in a variety of singlehanders and I would not swap that for anything. Smile Smile
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Originally posted by canoeslicer

We have a similar problem as that is how my wife currently does her sailing, laying on the foredeck of a little toy with a ice bucket, glass and bottle. Lol.


Yep, they've certainly got a better perspective than us blokes.
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