robp
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So how come he didn't ask her directly, whether she does her own maintenance or not? I'd be pissed off too, if that were the true scenario.
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amuzing sexism example
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aod
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Come on Barking you have been trying to get someone to maintain you for ages.
Still...........................................having turned down my generous offers for some time now I guess you must be maintaining yourself
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Still...........................................having turned down my generous offers for some time now I guess you must be maintaining yourself
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tcm
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I agree. Let's not all be walking about on eggshells. Meeting boat skippers is rare enough anyway. Meeting women skippers rarer too. Women don't seem to be attracted to it as much as men. Likewise women don't seem to want to be boat maintenance engineers even at £50 an hour, so very few if any women who start their own own enterprise have chosen to be maintenance engineers, but lots have chosen to start a florists. Fact, not sexism.
Magic_Sailor
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2nd time
we've agreed TC. Blimey!
Don't get your 2nd para though?
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we've agreed TC. Blimey!
Don't get your 2nd para though?
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pkb
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Sad really!
As an example of so-called sexism it hardly merits the effort of a post. A gross over reaction to a fairly innocuous remark. But then it seems that women today are encouraged to find reasons to portray themselves as victims of sexist slights. Sad really.
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As an example of so-called sexism it hardly merits the effort of a post. A gross over reaction to a fairly innocuous remark. But then it seems that women today are encouraged to find reasons to portray themselves as victims of sexist slights. Sad really.
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doris
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Not sad really.....
just the modern girls way of soliciting a quick shag. You must realise that laddish behaviour is now more prevalent amoung the laddetts than the lads these days. Anyway the first few posts in this thread show with whom she is having it off with at the mom.
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just the modern girls way of soliciting a quick shag. You must realise that laddish behaviour is now more prevalent amoung the laddetts than the lads these days. Anyway the first few posts in this thread show with whom she is having it off with at the mom.
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powerskipper
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Being female and an independent skipper of motor cruisers,
I have had a few disbelieving looks and comments in the time I have done this, From Marina staff to owners and engineers,/forums/images/icons/blush.gif
1 incident I remember well happened in Poole, I was asked at short notice to move a S41 from there to Hamble. I took husband with me as crew, the owner was on board with his family, when I arrived, he started talking to my husband about the boat and was told he needed to talk to me, some what sceptically he did so.
Once I had checked the boat over[ bad habit that/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif] we set off.
As I took her off the berth, the wife's Voice is heard rather Loudly saying "SEE she is the skipper" /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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IMOSHO of course,/forums/images/icons/smile.gif
I have had a few disbelieving looks and comments in the time I have done this, From Marina staff to owners and engineers,/forums/images/icons/blush.gif
1 incident I remember well happened in Poole, I was asked at short notice to move a S41 from there to Hamble. I took husband with me as crew, the owner was on board with his family, when I arrived, he started talking to my husband about the boat and was told he needed to talk to me, some what sceptically he did so.
Once I had checked the boat over[ bad habit that/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif] we set off.
As I took her off the berth, the wife's Voice is heard rather Loudly saying "SEE she is the skipper" /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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IMOSHO of course,/forums/images/icons/smile.gif
Birdseye
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Good for you - it sounds as if you werent unfriendly in response to his assumptions, and had a bit of a laugh instead
My wife is the skipper on our boat, insofar as we have one. She gets some odd looks from the male skippers, but at least as many from other females. Particulary on the odd occasion when she has had to go up the mast.
What winds me up though are the testosterone fuelled young women who are really anal about the whole subject. Their aggression begets aggression. The two sexes are different, do have different strengths and weaknesses, and only a fool pretends they dont exist.
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My wife is the skipper on our boat, insofar as we have one. She gets some odd looks from the male skippers, but at least as many from other females. Particulary on the odd occasion when she has had to go up the mast.
What winds me up though are the testosterone fuelled young women who are really anal about the whole subject. Their aggression begets aggression. The two sexes are different, do have different strengths and weaknesses, and only a fool pretends they dont exist.
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MainlySteam
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Have no problem with women skippers - they are always on someone elses boats. Do worry when I find myself on a plane with a woman pilot though - torn between the thought of what happens if they knock the bottle of nail polish into the electronic gubbins, and the fact that I have never heard of a passenger plane with woman pilot crashing. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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sailbadthesinner
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am doing fostbite sereies at local club
desperate to crew with the only woman in the gp 14 class
she is fast, an ace helm and quick witted to boot
apparently the first time she raced she beat everyone to the mark and all the pre start banter changed amongst the crews from 'don't worry about her' to 'just follw her and do what she does'
i fear testoserone is no advantage in boat
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desperate to crew with the only woman in the gp 14 class
she is fast, an ace helm and quick witted to boot
apparently the first time she raced she beat everyone to the mark and all the pre start banter changed amongst the crews from 'don't worry about her' to 'just follw her and do what she does'
i fear testoserone is no advantage in boat
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Gunfleet
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He was simply intimidated and couldn't think what to say next to you. One up to you, I reckon
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OzGirl
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AussieMan can be even more direct. Having helmed our 15m twin-engined mobo all day, we returned to harbour and one of our guests said 'Aren't you going to let Colin take over for the next bit?' Moored up first time, no probs, of course. Phew. Fellas!! G'day folks.
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Mike21
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Not sure if he was sexist or decided it was safer to speak to your crew and your sarcastic comments.
PS I have no problems with female skippers as my wife works as delivery skipper on mobo's and teaches boat handling. Her theory knowledge is much better than mine and is much more adept at handling a boat in difficult conditions than me.
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PS I have no problems with female skippers as my wife works as delivery skipper on mobo's and teaches boat handling. Her theory knowledge is much better than mine and is much more adept at handling a boat in difficult conditions than me.
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Abigail
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Well done for challenging him! Equally silly story - friend who is very experienced skipper (nstructor qualified) sailing a 40' ketch in Croatia with 6 friends as crew - 7 women on board. Turn up at quay to be asked by (British I think) yottie - 'you girls alone then?'
Patience may be a virtue but it can wear thin - I've certainly got fed up with the astonishment at being a female skipper and usually with an all female crew at times.
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Patience may be a virtue but it can wear thin - I've certainly got fed up with the astonishment at being a female skipper and usually with an all female crew at times.
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ccscott49
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That may well have been his opening gambit chat up line as in your unattached, you are maybe being a little sensitive?
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Magic_Sailor
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Quite right!
Were I not a happily married man (I must be, she's told me!) I might have used that line myself! (Yes I know it's corny).
These type of people will only be satisfied when the human race has died out because we men are too frightened to speak to speak to women lest we catch the lash of their tongue.
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Were I not a happily married man (I must be, she's told me!) I might have used that line myself! (Yes I know it's corny).
These type of people will only be satisfied when the human race has died out because we men are too frightened to speak to speak to women lest we catch the lash of their tongue.
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Becky
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A girl friend of mine, well endowed in the busty substances dept. (to quote Dudley Moore) complained that men only addressed her chest. As a skipper, I have found that at social gatherings, men don't talk to me at all if I am accompanied by male. I was at the Moody Owners Assoc last meeting as a first-time new member, and having introduced myself and my friend Richard ( who wasn't a member) to one of the Commodores, and various other 'dignitaries' Richard pointed out that I was more or less ignored as soon as he appeared. It has happened on several occasions, and would be laughable, if it wasn't that going to these sorts of do's alone so scary that taking a friendly male alone as an escort is a necessary morale booster. So it is nice to read that other women get the same response. I thought it was only me!
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