I agree with Dennis, I sent my wife through the Womanship Sailing program in 1982. She spent a week in the USVI with 7 other women. Returned with a boat load of enthusiasm and has not lost her love for sailing. She on to successfully campaign her J-24 all over the Southeastern USA as well as sailed/raced our C&C 39 TM on her own numerous times both with our usual mostly male crew and with her all women J 24 crew.
She currently holds a USCG 200 ton masters license with endorsements to boot. The money was well spent.. Jack Fitzgerald HONEY US12788 C&C 39 TM Savannah, GA Best regards, Jack Fitzgerald, export manager Fitzgerald Forwarding Co. Inc. FMC license no:1966F 260 Oatland Island Road, Savannah, GA 31410 USA Tel. no: 912 898.1069 - Fax no: 912 898.9458 Email*: [email protected] www.fitzgeraldforwarding.com **PLEASE REMOVE [email protected] <[email protected]> FROM YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND IMMEDIATELY ADD [email protected] <[email protected]>* On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Don't just send your lady to sailing lessons. Send her to a week long > ladies only sailing class. It's a LOT different than taking lessons with a > coed group. She will not just get sailing lessons, she will get emotional > support, counselling, share experiences with other women, etc. Chances are > it will be a much more positive experience for her. > > I've had a couple lady friends do it and they absolutely swear it's the > only way to learn sailing. > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Jean-Francois J Rivard via CnC-List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'll let you guys know how the lessons help.. >> >> Racing did not help, she clammed-up even worse for fear that she'd screw >> something up. Even if on that particular race, everything that could be >> screwed-up was already taken care of so no one really cared. No amount of >> screwing-up was going to make our last place any worse. :-) >> >> Giving her the helm.. Been there done that, same result. >> >> Talking to other wifes.. It depends, At the club parties it runs the >> gammut from enthusiastic sailor ladies to killjoys that never come out >> sailing, just show up for parties.. When she runs into the lather all they >> say is too hot, too cold, too windy, too sunny, too humid, etc, etc. then >> I'm loosing ground. >> >> I'm banking on the lessons.. Truth to be told, if you're that much not >> into the boating thing, just sitting around on a boat is not much more fun >> than sitting around anywhere else.. Especially given the fact that on the >> lake, when it's (Really) windy, it's usually not very sunny, often a bit >> coldish, so you have to look at the big picture to appreciate what's going >> on. >> >> On the plus she's fairly athletic so maybe once she told what's what by >> someone else and understands better what's going on she'll get into the >> workout / physical side of it and get a little rush that way... >> >> I guess that's typical boat stuff: one more thing to figure out... >> >> -Francois >> 1990 34+ "Take Five" >> Lake Lanier, Georgia. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> >> Email address: >> [email protected] >> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of >> page at: >> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > [email protected] > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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