Re: Percentage of women members?
I think it's an interesting question although inartfully posed--perhaps he meant "showing perspective" rather than "making posting biased." It's my impression that most posters here are male, by the comments.
On almost all of the posts about launching, for example, the women are described as doing little if anything. Many are described as incompetent or incapable. This is unusual from my experience, where I am surrounded by female boaters of all ages. Perhaps the "men at the ramp" thing is because women, being smarter than men, often train men to do the work under the pretext that the men are better at it!
And I don't recall seeing any women, at least that I could tell, responding in the thread about "getting busy on the boat," either in fact or fantasy. Lack of presence, or lack of interest?
I have noticed that if you want to get a question answered, throw in something like "I am a single woman who wants to learn about boats..." and you will get swarms of answers.
Anyway, as others have said, gender should make little difference here. The divisions of perspective seem to be more by the following: age/experience, fresh v. salt, trailer-kept v. docked, outboard v. inboard/sterndrive, cruisers v. fishers, dry v. beer-on-board, old v. new, hard use v. no scratches, DIY v. to-the-shop. And it is these divisions that make the board so interesting and informative; it would do no good just to read stuff posted by people who think and know exactly as you do.
