john_morris_uk
Well-Known Member
I have left it a couple of days, as I wanted to ask peoples opinion on sailing - and have something genuinely of interest (to me at least) to say in what seems to be a milestone in my occasional contributions.
We have just had one of the worst sailing years in the last twenty. We went no-where. What's worse is that it is the very year that PBO is expecting me to write something about it for their antifouling trial in conjunction with International Paints. Normally we sail a couple of thousand miles - certainly well over 1000 miles a year. This last season we did diddley squat. There were good reasons - Firstly our 19 year old daughter had a scarf osteotomy on both her feet and was laid up for six weeks and unable to walk, and then 18 year old son has a screw put in his lumbar 4 vertebrae in an attempt to mend a stress fracture induced by his cricket, and he was laid up for 8 weeks needing lots of care. We did go sailing - but we never crossed the channel - never went further than a few miles up the coast - and the furthest we sailed was from Plymouth round to the Exe so we could dinghy ashore and visit the children and check that they were OK.
Do other people have bad sailing years? I am not suggesting enjoyment is proportional to miles sailed, but the miles sailed are usually some sort of indication of how much we use the boat. It was also the first year ever we have slept on our boat on our own mooring - we usually go somewhere - even if its only a mile or two up the river, or down to Barn Pool.
Should we just put it down to one of those things - and carry on making plans to cross Biscay and sail the Rias of Spain next Summer?
PS SWMBO says 5000 posts is sad, but I try and explain that I am lightweight compared to some... but that doesn't seem to wash and she just gives a hollow laugh - translation required I think...?
We have just had one of the worst sailing years in the last twenty. We went no-where. What's worse is that it is the very year that PBO is expecting me to write something about it for their antifouling trial in conjunction with International Paints. Normally we sail a couple of thousand miles - certainly well over 1000 miles a year. This last season we did diddley squat. There were good reasons - Firstly our 19 year old daughter had a scarf osteotomy on both her feet and was laid up for six weeks and unable to walk, and then 18 year old son has a screw put in his lumbar 4 vertebrae in an attempt to mend a stress fracture induced by his cricket, and he was laid up for 8 weeks needing lots of care. We did go sailing - but we never crossed the channel - never went further than a few miles up the coast - and the furthest we sailed was from Plymouth round to the Exe so we could dinghy ashore and visit the children and check that they were OK.
Do other people have bad sailing years? I am not suggesting enjoyment is proportional to miles sailed, but the miles sailed are usually some sort of indication of how much we use the boat. It was also the first year ever we have slept on our boat on our own mooring - we usually go somewhere - even if its only a mile or two up the river, or down to Barn Pool.
Should we just put it down to one of those things - and carry on making plans to cross Biscay and sail the Rias of Spain next Summer?
PS SWMBO says 5000 posts is sad, but I try and explain that I am lightweight compared to some... but that doesn't seem to wash and she just gives a hollow laugh - translation required I think...?
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