Monday, May 13, 2013

Class Five Women Discovered!

My late friend, Charlie Burkelman, was a keen observer of human behavior and, being a male, was especially interested in female behaviors.  As any sailor knows, the darned boats require maintenance!  So Charlie classified women according to their willingness to do the myriad tasks needed. 
The system started with a Class One gal who would occasionally visit the boat and ended with a Class Four beauty doing the brightwork with varnish on her own.  I've discovered an entirely new class! 
Class Five women are divided into two sections; the Pro and the Am.  I've found one of each during this boatyard session. 
Micky is the first known Class Five (Am division).  I've declared her thus for her dedicated and excellent work cleaning and varnishing the after berth in "Tango".  Now, you must understand that the after berth is not the showpiece of this boat.  It is cramped, barely ventilated, and will be used primarily for storage.  Yet Micky has chosen to clean the fiberglass and wood and then varnish the wood surfaces.  What pushed her over the top into C5 territory is her insistence on varnishing the tops of the furniture.  These are bare plywood tops designed to be hid under the mattresses.
The standards for the Pro division are quite high.  The work must be onerous to point that I, the sole arbiter , chose to pay to have it done.  I thoroughly expected that all the people grinding the bottom paint off my boat would be bunny-suit clad day laborers chosen for their ability to report for work on that day sober.
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Cindy Harris is a very curvy, 47 year-old grandmother, no less, with a mean grinder!  And the winner of the Class Five (Pro) division.

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