Another poll - amount of sailing

How much sailing do you do per year?

  • I don't have time to sail, I spend too much time online

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • 1 weekend or less per year

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Up to 5 weekends per year, no longer trips

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • 1 or 2 weeks cruising / charter holidays but little else

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Many/ most weekends in the season with maybe a longer trip

    Votes: 40 48.8%

  • A month or more living aboard, some other shorter trips

    Votes: 33 40.2%

  • I live on a boat but if I'm honest I don't actually sail it that much

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I live on a boat and sail a lot

    Votes: 4 4.9%

  • I am a professional sailor or instructor and it's my 9 to 5.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    82
flaming said:
I thought of another poll. Hopefully the categories are broad enough that everyone can see one that just about applies to them, but also defined enough to be vaguely interesting.
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Might need an 'other'...!
I fell into the 'month or more' category up until 2024 when the dreaded big C prostate thing happened, switched to 'up to 5 weekends a year' and having won that battle, at least for now, are moving back to the 'month or more' !
 
It's a strange thing retirement, you think you've got lots of time for your pursuits, but actually other important stuff gets in the way. So for us the full month away is often aspirational. We do manage it in bits, plus we get to our club's weekend rallies.
 
When I was working, one season I notched up 7 trips and 5 of those were evening races. Retired, the month away (or longer) becomes possible and is the only really sensible justification I can see for an old codger running a boat.
 
James_Calvert said:
It's a strange thing retirement, you think you've got lots of time for your pursuits, but actually other important stuff gets in the way. So for us the full month away is often aspirational. We do manage it in bits, plus we get to our club's weekend rallies.
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Children, their children snd pets are what stop us doing more. We do fit in Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday racing almost every week between April and September, unless we’ve gone away on the cruiser. But that is currently limited by our daughter’s cat, which resides with us while she’s in Oz. Very far from the plan there, she was meant to be back, but we might have another 2 years to wait. Anyone want a cat? A lovely one, just not on our life plan.
 
My vote - 'a month or more living aboard with some shorter trips - was our regime.

Now with our narrowboat, we will try to keep this up if First Mates medical condition allows. She gets easily fatigued. But we can do shorter days-after all, we can just stop and moor up!

At no cost too!
 
I ticked "Many/ most weekends in the season with maybe a longer trip" because in the spirit of the distribution of your answers it was the one that made most sense, but its more like "every second weekend during the season with a couple of weeks in the middle".
 
I will probably be expelled for having sold my boat last week, but since Lockdown and my wife’s illnesses it would have been day sails plus the occasional weekend with family members. For most of the first quarter-century it would have been three months going foreign and short trips either side within the season.
 
I've ticked a month or more, but this is our first year doing that as we've just bought our boat, so it's technically aspirational. We've got two and a half months booked (80 days in total) out in Greece.
 
michael_w said:
I don't have a season, just sail all the year round, Tends to be big boat in the warmer months and the little one in the winter,
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Another poll, 'How many have more than one boat' ?
Chiara’s slave said:
Other way round for us. The big one has heating.
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Anyway - I thought Chiara had 3 boats (until I found he had 4 (and maybe still counting) and we had 2 boats.


At one point I thought .... they are going to run out of things to poll - but it seems Ita endless. We should really have a new subsection simply titled Polls. :)

Jonathan
 
Snowgoose-1 said:
When you are young you do little polishing and lots of nautical miles

As you age. More polishing with less nautical miles.

I'm on the slide downwards but very happy.
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We did a lot of miles relative to the limited holidays and the fact we had young kids aboard. When the kids grew up and fled the nest, we made the most of the holidays which had extended a bit. And since we retired three years ago we have spent the three summer months aboard, and extended our range again. So the number of miles has grown again in absolute terms, not necessarily in miles per day aboard.
I realise that in a couple of years our range will shrink again, so we’ll make the most of it while it lasts.
 
Neeves said:
Another poll, 'How many have more than one boat' ?


Anyway - I thought Chiara had 3 boats (until I found he had 4 (and maybe still counting) and we had 2 boats.


At one point I thought .... they are going to run out of things to poll - but it seems Ita endless. We should really have a new subsection simply titled Polls. :)

Jonathan
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4 actual boats, plus tenders. DF920, XOD, Blaze, and a Novurania RIB, just a baby one.
 
I'm up there with you with the numbers, or until we sold the cat, 2 kayaks, a tender with OB, 2 hulls

But only one actual boat (the already sold cat)

which means we are boat less.

Another poll,

How many actively contribute to threads - but don't actually own a boat?

If you are boatels should you be banned from contributing - give the Mods some real work :)

:)

Jonathan
 
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