Do you older guys (40+) find you can't do it all any more?

[Daydream believer]

Yes but what's the point of the original op?

Created discussion- Did it not?

 

[WoodyP]

Pointless though, like so much of YBW these days

 

[Daydream believer]

Pointless though, like so much of YBW these days

Which leads us to the obvious question----So why are you still posting?

 

[WoodyP]

Which leads us to the obvious question----So why are you still posting?

Never like to leave the party first. My bad.

 

[greeny]

Too old for parties! I'm over 40.

 

[Kukri]

HW Tilman took up sailing in 1948; he was fifty.

 

[alan_d]

It won't be long before I am 40 x 2. Have unfortunately not seen my boat for two years ....

Ah, that will be cataracts, then ...

 

[thinwater]

Ah, that will be cataracts, then ...

That's just mean. And funny.

About 35 years ago I spent an afternoon rock climbing with Fritz Wiesner, who was about 85 at the time. He wasn't as strong as his former self, but he was at ease high in the air. Great guy. Amazing. Some guys can put their pants on two legs at a time. He was one of those.
Fritz Wiesner

 

[sailaboutvic]

What intested I found is people ages ,
So many old men unlike my self only 25 .

 

[Mister E]

Could the op have some sort of medical condition?

 

[ctva]

Could the op have some sort of medical condition?

Yes, trollitus. Still looking in to see the results of his work.

 

[Mister E]

Yes, trollitus. Still looking in to see the results of his work.

So instead of thinking about making a sailing accessible, you jump in with the opposite.
Maybe we could try to use this topic for something good.
So how can sailing be made accessible to someone who has physical problems?

 

[dunedin]

So instead of thinking about making a sailing accessible, you jump in with the opposite.
Maybe we could try to use this topic for something good.
So how can sailing be made accessible to someone who has physical problems?

This - Natsha Lambert – Disabled sailor and adventurer

 

[ctva]

So instead of thinking about making a sailing accessible, you jump in with the opposite.
Maybe we could try to use this topic for something good.
So how can sailing be made accessible to someone who has physical problems?

 

[vyv_cox]

Ah, that will be cataracts, then ...

Fortunately for me, my eyesight seem to be the only part of me that still works as it should. With contact lenses of course.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Well, there are 8,769,122 people over 70 in the uk.

After about 10 year's time, the rest of the boating community can have it all to themselves, WW2 Boomers that is.

 

[ianat182]

I bet you never expected there 'd be 95 replies- some may have mis-understood your OP!!!!......

 

[Daydream believer]

About 35 years ago I spent an afternoon rock climbing with Fritz Wiesner, who was about 85 at the time. He wasn't as strong as his former self, but he was at ease high in the air. Great guy. Amazing. Some guys can put their pants on two legs at a time. He was one of those.

Funny you should write that. My wife had to unhook me this morning after i got 2 legs down one trouser leg when getting up this morning. & i am only 74.
Still, if I can still do it at 85 it means that darned pension company has had to give a bit more of my annuity back---- so that is one good reason to go on breathing