It's not snobbyness, I just don't like em.

SV

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Oh joy, another stinkpotter.

SV


Last summer I got to chat with a local woman who has sailed around the
world.
We discussed the oft encountered sailor's snobbery toward any other form
of
boating.
She laughed.

Her general comment: "Very few serious bluewater sailors feel like that,
it's
an urban or inland sailing thing. Probably hung over from days when only
the
very rich could afford to buy a sailboat and go 'yachting'. Whenever we
would
put into port, we'd try to make friends with cruising powerboaters. Most
of
them have more tools, more spare parts, and more space to fix whatever got
broken on the last leg
than cruising sailors typically carry. People who behave as though sailing
is
always superior to powerboating just show how little they really know."

Wish I knew the answer to the speed difference between a 3.0 and 4.3
engine in
a Chapparal......but in any case this new boater should be encouraged, not
ridiculed because his choice of boat might be different from someone else.