Single, Female, and living aboard?

[sailorboy1]

sometimes you can tell why some people are alone

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

sometimes you can tell why some people are alone

and sometimes you cannot. ot until fail happens.

yeah bubba rules life on this boat. i figger i have about 10 more bubba years, max. if i live that long ha ha ha.

it IS smoother running sola. seriously so.

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by Sea Dreaming

Good on you! Solo is fine, but limiting in experiences in my opinion. Another to "get you in trouble" and foil your own foibles is much more fun. Gamayun, you have the right attitude imo.

Thanks, Sea Dreaming, but I think most people are missing the point. Solo is not a limitation; our attitudes are limiting. I am doing everything I want in my life, and I'm single, and sail solo. I get help when I need it and sail with friends whenever I want to or they ask, but being single is NEITHER LONELY NOR LIMITING.

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

sometimes you can tell why some people are alone

OK, Sailorboy, I'm game. Why am I alone?

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by gamayun

OK, Sailorboy, I'm game. Why am I alone?

Not sure he meant you. I would have to agree with him in some cases when i was dating. It was a phrase i used often after a 20 minute coffee date.
Being single and sailing solo are two totally unrelated subjects, as you have pointed out. Often when sailing with new crew ( read: can I have a ride on your boat) it would have been easier and often more pleasurable alone.

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by goat

Like all mushrooms are edible, once.

And even if they're edible, they can also become moldy and smelly, if kept around for too long

[weavis]

Originally Posted by gamayun

...being single is NEITHER LONELY NOR LIMITING.

Now THAT is an attractive attitude...

[zeehag]

not limiting--exactly--i get to see that which I wanna see, not only what the other one desires. and so --much less limiting.
not lonely--life as it is rocks.
life with others can suck massively.
choose your poison, and lie in your made bed. i love my life, and would not change it for anything in the world.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Thanks, Sea Dreaming, but I think most people are missing the point. Solo is not a limitation; our attitudes are limiting. I am doing everything I want in my life, and I'm single, and sail solo. I get help when I need it and sail with friends whenever I want to or they ask, but being single is NEITHER LONELY NOR LIMITING.

Gamayun..
Its just a case of if I can't manage it.. so you should not be able to..
Different is dangerous which is why four people on one boat will call the one person on the other boat a threat.
Human insecurities.. let it drift into your wake..

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

Not sure he meant you. I would have to agree with him in some cases when i was dating. It was a phrase i used often after a 20 minute coffee date:

Perhaps, and I appreciate the thoughts, but to keep beating this horse, being single is a choice and not a disease state. Nothing wrong with a woman (or man) who chooses to be single ---- no matter what other people think is the reason or the cause!

[Blue Crab]

I asked my NSA pals to run a check on you, G, and they came up with this:

"An attractive single subject who likes 'Diving, sailing, kayaking, biking, reading, being lazy.'

They couldn't confirm beer drinking/pot smoking but it sounds like we're 90% sympatico from the jump. I'd like to ask what's yer sign?, but I'm too cool for that. I have 3 tool boxes aboard, and a road-worthy box trailer full of toys.

Wanna play around?:flower s:

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Gamayun..
Its just a case of if I can't manage it.. so you should not be able to..
Different is dangerous which is why four people on one boat will call the one person on the other boat a threat.
Human insecurities.. let it drift into your wake..

Yes, exactly. I enjoy challenging the paradigms from time to time.

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Perhaps, and I appreciate the thoughts, but to keep beating this horse, being single is a choice and not a disease state. Nothing wrong with a woman (or man) who chooses to be single ---- no matter what other people think is the reason or the cause!

It use to really piss me off, well intentioned members of the sailing community trying to pair me up with someone while all I wanted was where I was at.

[daw_two]

Originally Posted by gamayun

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Nothing wrong with a woman (or man) who chooses to be single ---- no matter what other people think is the reason or the cause!

Concur

[daw_two]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

It use to really piss me off, well intentioned members of the sailing community trying to pair me up with someone while all I wanted was where I was at.

Yeah, it's not just the sailing community either.