LymingtonPugwash
New member
Reading through the earlier post by YAYoHamble entitled "Persuading one's other half to sail more" and seeing what so many of you have to say about your other halves, got me thinking how shocking it is that so many of you struggle with this issue!
Considering you are all great fans of sailing, I am appalled that so many of you never actually interrogated your potential partners in life BEFORE you agreed to any sort of relationship with them! I believe that this has shown a sad misplacing of loyalties and priorities as sailors!
For those already in that position, it may be too late, unless you are serious enough about your sailing to dump any partner uncommitted to sailing and replacing them with a more appropriate partner......
However, in order to help future generations ensure that they don't make the same mistakes, I thought it might be useful if we used all our hard-earned experience to compile a list of questions for any future partner?
Perhaps I can begin with some of the more fundamental questions and I am sure you can all think of many more to make this a useful document which in time could be included into the national curriculum in schools and colleges to ensure that at least something useful is learnt in our great states seats of learning?
1) Do you like the idea of sailing?
2) Would you be willing to deny all others to commit yourself wholeheartedly to sailing in better or worse conditions?
3) Would you be willing to prove your commitment by undertaking a 1000 day non-stop sailing trip with me in order to cement our relationship forever?
4) Which would you say is the most important, food on the table or the new part which is needed for the boat?
5) Do you agree to raise our future children to be first class crew and love sailing?
6) etc etc
I wonder what else should be added to the list?
Considering you are all great fans of sailing, I am appalled that so many of you never actually interrogated your potential partners in life BEFORE you agreed to any sort of relationship with them! I believe that this has shown a sad misplacing of loyalties and priorities as sailors!
For those already in that position, it may be too late, unless you are serious enough about your sailing to dump any partner uncommitted to sailing and replacing them with a more appropriate partner......
However, in order to help future generations ensure that they don't make the same mistakes, I thought it might be useful if we used all our hard-earned experience to compile a list of questions for any future partner?
Perhaps I can begin with some of the more fundamental questions and I am sure you can all think of many more to make this a useful document which in time could be included into the national curriculum in schools and colleges to ensure that at least something useful is learnt in our great states seats of learning?
1) Do you like the idea of sailing?
2) Would you be willing to deny all others to commit yourself wholeheartedly to sailing in better or worse conditions?
3) Would you be willing to prove your commitment by undertaking a 1000 day non-stop sailing trip with me in order to cement our relationship forever?
4) Which would you say is the most important, food on the table or the new part which is needed for the boat?
5) Do you agree to raise our future children to be first class crew and love sailing?
6) etc etc
I wonder what else should be added to the list?
