Does anybody else find...

[Peppermint]

that they meet loads of emotional basket cases through sailing? People doing it for the challenge or to find themselves or to get over some ever so complex personal situation. They get all weepy at dawn or on the last day of the cruise. I prefer the weepy ones to the secret drinkers who sharpen their knives incessantly.

It's like being a floating samaritan half the time. I even got some blokes life story at SIB's. When he'd finished some woman, who I'd never set eyes on before, sidled up to me and told me what a [--word removed--] he was.

I'm going to get the RYA to do a counciling diploma at this rate.

 

[sailorman]

i quite like sharpening knives /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

You must have a sympathetic face.

 

[janie]

[ QUOTE ]
It's like being a floating samaritan half the time.
I'm going to get the RYA to do a counciling diploma at this rate.

[/ QUOTE ]Sometimes I feel like this is my only function at the Yacht Club! Not that I have a counselling diploma ..

 

[BrendanS]

Suspect that unless you've ever been a Sams volunteer, you won't have the necessary skills or training. so don't bother. Many can get halfway there, but the fact that you think they are emotional basket cases suggests you are not in the right frame of mind to listen to them constructively

 

[Talbot]

I think this forum is very unkind to us basket cases, and something should be done about it! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Guest]

Maybe it's something about your style of sailing that turns them all into basketcases?

p.s. Will PM you all about my personal problems as soon as I manage to finish weeping - keyboard keeps short-circuiting

 

[jimi]

Glad you said that , can I tell you a story ... several stories in fact .. lend me a tenner for a cup of tea .... please!