Re: [Paddlewise] New boat

    While being a member of the gender  of mixed chromosomes myself, I concur
with the esteemed Mr. Lloyd.  As far as instructive receptivity
goes...........girls rule!  Sometime try to teach longboarding to a girl and
then try the same routine with  a guy........  Surfing, like most other of
life's pursuits, is a balance thing, not a strength thing.   Girls get it.
Guys generally do not, until they have been slammed a few dozen times at the
aforementioned 10 Gs.  Then guys get it.

inetex wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 07:06:29 -0500, Debbie wrote:
> Anne-
> I built my first boat, a cedar strip Wee Lassie, from a boat written by Mac
> McCarthy.  I had no wood working experience.  Being female, I was never
> given the option of "shop" class when young.  I had to reread the book many
> times to figure out some of it and I also called Mac a couple of times.  I
> loved it!  With every step accomplished, I learned a lot.  I still can't
> believe that I built something so cool.  Now I'm building a sea kayak.
> Bottom line:  Go For It!
> Debbie Reeves
> Sandy Hook, NJ
> ...............
> Debbie, et al:
>
> I've been teaching adult, non-vocational woodworking, as a part-time
> instructor for the last 16 years (weekend and evening courses, after my
> regular day/week as a senior medical adjudicator for the government). By
> and large, the best students are the women (about half the students are).
> They listen to instructions, such as don't use the rip fence for
> cross-cutting. The older men just shrug shoulders, and go on acting
> dangerously, not using push sticks, etc, as they "know what they are
> doing". The men do get hurt from time to time. The ladies on the courses
> follow a plan three times as easily as the men, taking their time to
> interpret, correlate with the s2s wood, and execute correctly. The men
> rarely read the instuctions. The women exibit patience and finess when it
> comes to sanding and finish, while the men are thinking of their next
> project before the first one even finished. Hope I'm not coming across as
> patronizing, but the ladies win hands-down - or is that hands on?
>
> Just because our culture programs (or used to when I was in school) the
> female gender toward other pursuits in school, doesn't mean they are any
> less the better woodworkers. Are men better woodworkers? Yes, only because
> there are so few women woodworkers around. I guess you could say the women
> "are lost in the woodwork" :-)
>
> Keep up the great work, Deb. Women make better paddlers too. No macho
> silliness. Lot's of common sense. Good preparation skills. Fun company
> during miserable weather. (I'm glad most of my male paddling friends don't
> read PaddleWise, that way I can still pretend with them, than men are the
> best!)
>
> Doug Lloyd
> Victoria BC
> Canada
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