Woaw, I've got one each of the above. After six weeks on the slipway I am bringing a shared cabin cat back to the mooring 20 ks away. I have had new gudgeons made to push the rudders further under for less weather helm. I have assured the partner in the boat I know what I am doing. On the way back it is 20 knots and the weather helm is biblical. Big bottom lips and sad faces! The partner went all silent and broody. later I find the partner had put the rudder blades in backwards.....like wrestling a bull for four hours.

As an 18 year old I take my gorgeous girlfriend (really) out on my old style mono....nasty wind and short chop mean I have to have her weight in a particular part of the boat or cannot control it.....she will not stay there as she is scared of the boat turning over.....we are going to lose it and drift off shore.
I go as close as I can get to shore and..................push her over the side and tell her to swim!

A gorgeous girlfriend is just a gorgeous girlfriend but a boat is a boat.

This is all truth. ....when I get in she was waiting for me to make up in the shower on a cold day. I could not believe my luck.

Do you guys find that women get less accepting as they get older???