DownWest
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A French friend's aunt was the first female commodore of the Island Sailing Club.
Female Yacht Owners
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Blueboatman
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And so, following on from that:
One might wonder if female yacht owners anthropomorphise their boats and give them a gender identity to quite the same extent as we chaps do?
One might wonder if female yacht owners anthropomorphise their boats and give them a gender identity to quite the same extent as we chaps do?
LONG_KEELER
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I think women sailors ability has never been in doubt. If anything, they seem to have more stamina than men. Looking after sick children night after night with little sleep has put me to shame.
The big growth for womens sailing seems to be in the charter market. One site I looked at has more women then men chartering. There not stupid are they ? Why would you own and maintain a boat in the Northern Hemisphere , when you can sail a nice modern boat somewhere warm and walk away from the stress of ownership.
Daydream believer
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Just reminded me . So does mine. I often wonder about it though, because it seems to cost me a lot of money .
dgadee
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At youth dinghy events you see loads of young girls competing. Probably 50%. I've wondered why that cohort of male and female don't seem to move into cruising, with fewer females doing so. I sailed with a friend in the early 80s who got a large redundancy payment and she blew it on a 34 footer. That was not usual for the times.
Daydream believer
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My doctor, now retired, was telling me about her Rival 34. Said she was divorced, but no way was HE keeping the boat?
RunAgroundHard
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When I read about stuff like that I am reminded of a scene in Boys From The Black Stuff, where a gang of men descend on a pub and the landlord looks on in trepidation and says, “oh no, not another redundancy party.”
It was one of those sad funny moments in a rather depressing time.
xyachtdave
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Our yacht club had to change the club rules quite rapidly (and were probably a little late to the party with the benefit of hindsight) about 20 years ago when they realised their first female Commordore couldn’t attend her own Commodore’s Dinner as no ladies were allowed.
john_morris_uk
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Agreed.Just reminded me . So does mine. I often wonder about it though, because it seems to cost me a lot of money .
Juan Twothree
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I've met Dee Caffari, in her role as a member of the RNLI's operations committee.
I gather she's done a bit of sailing.
I gather she's done a bit of sailing.
jamie N
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My daughter sailed at South Brisbane with her non-sailing husband, and gave it up as it was showing a side of her that her 'man' hadn't seen before !
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dgadee
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Not sad for her. She immediately moved to the south coast to teach statistics to military types.
DownWest
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How about a 'New Man'?My daughter sailed at South Brisbane with her non-sailing husband, and gave it up as it was showing a side of her that her 'man' hadn't seen before
DownWest
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And very fetching in her Union Jack bikini when sailing.
But I doubt that is a very constructive comment in the current climate & this thread
Juan Twothree
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And very fetching in her Union Jack bikini when sailing.
But I doubt that is a very constructive comment in the current climate & this thread
That's not what she was wearing when she visited our lifeboat station.
Although it was January, to be fair.
grumpy_o_g
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Princess Anne is the only lady I have ever met that I can say I am pretty sure owned a yacht. In fairness I couldn't say who actually owned just about every yacht I've been on. I don't ask as it's really not relevant to me but it's quite possible many were joint-owned by husband and wife.
Poignard
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On that basis I can say that I am married to a yacht-owner, since we are joint owners of our yacht. I
grumpy_o_g
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Honestly if I was married or in a relationship I wanted be in for life it wouldn't occur for me to do it any other way.
Poignard
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Apart from that, there's a practical reason for joint ownership.
Whichever of us survives the other continues as sole owner of the yacht without executors needing to get involved, and there is no need to re-register her.
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