spouses sailing skills
We both started sailing about 5 years ago, and it's more my thing than hers. She does not take the boat out by herself, but will sail with me or with my daughter (who is a pretty capable 11 year old skipper). She does not freak out the way she used to when the wind kicks up, but I think she would enjoy sailing more on a flatter boat, which is why I thought of the Eclipse. My daughter on the other hand says it wouldn't feel like sailing if she weren't hiked out as far as she could with water gushing over the rail every now and then . . . so pleasing both the women in my life might prove difficult! My wife has several skills that I lack - dispite my obsessive reading of books and magizines! For example she can gauge much more accurately than I then angle of our tack. When approaching a mooring from upwind I will always tack too soon and have to make one or more corrections, she hits it on the button every time! Also, for the first several years of our sailing she was in charge of playing with the kids while rigged and launched the boat, so I have more rigging experience - but it goes so much faster when she helps, she is very organized, and is never going to be walking around saying, "OK, you know that pin that holds the rudder on?????" What about you women out there??? How do your spouses handle the boat? john