Mary-

If you can keep the trash mouth talk off this forum; my goddaughter [8] would be posting here all day [not necessarily a good thing]. She made the mistake of quoting some of the posts to her mother who promptly dropped me into the grease and fried me for letting her be exposed. She is still furious with me. I know they here alot at school but when she quotes something off my computer...well your site if off limits for her. She actually would read every post on every topic but she never made a post [that I know of]...

As far a anon postings I wondered if "equal opportunity" etc were female or not...there's got to be a reason for not telling people who you are...

I'm afraid that the ole "you know" sendrome is present today with female crews... One day you're flying the hull and having a good time and the next day its you're trying to kill me... guys really don't know how you feel unless you tell us!!!

As far as all female races discrimating against males.. well don't sweat the small stuff. If you're really a sailor you want everyone to have as much fun as you do no matter whose sailing the boat. Karen-Ann has a standing offer to sail whatever boat I'm sailing on because she loves sailing. As a matter of fact the Shegatta [couple of years back] had problems with access to the lake because it was 22' down. I tried to get 2 inflatables from a friend so that they would have a RC boat. Couldn't get them because they were in Mexico but drove up to see what was happening and ended up having to drive back to Dallas to solve a problem. Never answer your cell if you want to have Saturday off. Didn't get out of the car. Didn't get to meet Sheila either. Now the races that used to be open are closed events so probably won't be attending those...

why have portsmouth ratings if all you want to do is race class only???

fair winds,
thom