End of the family line......

[Wansworth]

Not having any male heirs my issue will not go on to carry the family name nor from what I see any interest in boating or bodgeing they have seen where it takes you and will Not be buying power tools and searching secondhand supplies but will be going directly to Ikea...

 

[CLB]

I assume you have a daughter or two. The name may disappear, but they may well marry a boater or a bodger. Your grandkids could well become boaters and bodgers. Don't give up yet.

 

[Wansworth]

Not sure it would be a good thing!!

 

[mainsail1]

If my grown up children are anything to go by they seem to think that boat maintenance is beneath them. So I have to do most of it myself. And my daughter would need so many risk assessments before she brought her children on the boat that I don't ask them. Where did I go wrong?

 

[wully1]

Where did I go wrong?

Not beating them enough when they were young?

 

[mainsail1]

Not beating them enough when they were young?

Not allowed in Scotland now I believe. Who would have thought Scotland would lead the way on that?

 

[wully1]

Not allowed in Scotland now I believe. Who would have thought Scotland would lead the way on that?

No, apparently not allowed now. I actually thought it had been banned in the uk years ago.

 

[mjcoon]

If my grown up children are anything to go by they seem to think that boat maintenance is beneath them. So I have to do most of it myself. And my daughter would need so many risk assessments before she brought her children on the boat that I don't ask them. Where did I go wrong?

I think it is part of the trend away from minimum child health (because we didn't know how to do it) and thus having to breed like rabbits, towards taking great care of the few kids we have these days... (Not that I have any at all; the real minimum.)

Mike.

 

[sailaboutvic]

How did this get from ( no one to carry on the family ) to beating kids , anyone who need to beat a kid need a good beating them self

 

[wully1]

How did this get from ( no one to carry on the family ) to beating kids , anyone who need to beat a kid need a good beating them self

Cos it’s the internet....

BTW, there should be an irony emoticon...

 

[CLB]

Cos it’s the internet....

BTW, there should be an irony emoticon...

 

[wully1]

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[freespiritdavid]

Not having any male heirs my issue will not go on to carry the family name nor from what I see any interest in boating or bodgeing they have seen where it takes you and will Not be buying power tools and searching secondhand supplies but will be going directly to Ikea...

You may find this bodging / secondhand / powertools interest will skip a generation, don't give up all hope yet.

 

[freespiritdavid]

Not beating them enough when they were young?

I like the brass plaque on board that says " Beatings will continue until moral improves "
Clear enough ............... never have any problems with the galley slave.

 

[Kelpie]

Is nobody going to challenge the assumption that women are never interested in sailing?

 

[ctva]

Is nobody going to challenge the assumption that women are never interested in sailing?

Nope.

 

[Saguday]

Is nobody going to challenge the assumption that women are never interested in sailing?

Some women clearly are: sadly, for poor Wansworth, the one's in his life are not.

My own jaundiced experience is that offspring tend to do precisely what you don't want them to do - "don't go into engineering" (my dad to me - so I did), "don't go into music" (me to my eldest - guess what?), so to answer Wansworth's question I think taking them sailing was the mistake - banning them from the boat and telling them never to get involved would have have had precisely the desired opposite effect.

 

[geem]

Is nobody going to challenge the assumption that women are never interested in sailing?

Its my wifes fault that we have a boat! She is as keen as me and an excellent sailer

 

[Kelpie]

Its my wifes fault that we have a boat! She is as keen as me and an excellent sailer

I'm in the same position. I was quite happy with my Wayfarer, she demanded some creature comforts, next thing you know it's seven years later and every holiday we've had has been on the yacht. It was her idea to upgrade to the current one too.
I do count myself quite lucky.

 

[mjcoon]

Is nobody going to challenge the assumption that women are never interested in sailing?

I remember one of the yachts on flotilla which had (only) six young ladies on board. Three were sailors; the other three had been sold on the picture of lounging on deck in the sun... So three did the sailing; the others, when they could, took ferries!

Mike.