The socialist yachtsman.

[Peppermint]

How is it possible to be a yachtsman without having socialist leanings. Surely the two go hand in hand, don't they?

 

[sailorman]

none of the above usually covers it

 

[graham]

"If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business" quote from famous yachtsman and errrmmm socialist??

 

[webcraft]

Of course they do. It's just hard for them to come out of the closet. (Or Heads if you like)

- Nick

 

[Stemar]

It's always a mistake to confuse socialist ideals with socialist politics!

From each according to his ability and to each according to his needs always seems to lose something in the translation to politics... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[AndrewB]

A few examples, please?

Err .... King George V, Ted Heath, ... oh yes, Robert Maxwell, now he was a socialist and yachtsman, though inclined to go overboard.

 

[l'escargot]

Re: A few examples, please?

Probably not - you have to be rich to be a socialist.

 

[Bergman]

Re: Only

on starboard tack

 

[Peppermint]

It’s just that a well run yacht seems to me to be intrinsically socialist. A small closed world where all men are equal but some are more equal than others. Where a limited choice of food is still free at the point of delivery. Information is carefully controlled. Collective objectives are the order of the day and criticism is futile. Etc.

 

[Ships_Cat]

..and activities on board are either prohibited or compulsory, and the only democracy is manipulatively guided (that, when necessary for results, with threats of bodily harm or feedings to the sharks).

I always like to get to play the skipper, Napoleon (this is like Orwell's Animal Farm" Stalinist Napolean, not the French guy) during which time I am elevated to being called Ships_Pig.

John

 

[boatmike]

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others...... Certainly true on my boat!!! Democracy is a wonderful thing so long as everybody remembers to follow orders......
But isn't it curious how the skippers authority somehow evaporates as soon as the boat is tied up alongside????