Wansworth
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Whilst on your yacht sailing or motoring is your lot one of unalloyed pleasure and gaiety or is there a underlying level of stress.Which bits of sailing do you like the best.
Happy and gay
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Irish Rover
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Is the OP a troll, a piss taker or what? Could I suggest you pm your replies to the OP 
Wansworth
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No a question I asked myself this morning?Is the OP a troll, a piss taker or what? Could I suggest you pm your replies to the OP
awol
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So no gaiety in your boating - how sadIs the OP a troll, a piss taker or what? Could I suggest you pm your replies to the OP
Bajansailor
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Is the OP a troll, a piss taker or what? Could I suggest you pm your replies to the OP
No, Wansworth is very genuine, and he uses the word gay in the original sense, meaning happy.
I think it would be a nice steady broad reach on a passage, with no squalls about - nothing too hair raising. Had enough hair raising (and hair losing) episodes in the past.
Wansworth
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Thankyou…..myself having doubts,do I really want or need a new(tome) boat
LittleSister
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All of the above! But at different times, generally.
Yes, boat maintenance and costs.
LittleSister
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lustyd
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Depends on the day. Sailing locally on a sunny day with good crew is slightly different from sailing hundreds of miles away overnight in fog or a F9 with inexperienced crew
Wansworth
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One of mine is the engine and it’s surroundings
Wansworth
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But is it not the marginal conditions that we find ourselves in and with our skills come out well enjoyable and pleasing and dose tend to forget and have to go through the stress again next time we are in marginal conditions?
capnsensible
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Wansworth
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I always remember approaching the coast of death off Galicia and there where the fishermen out in their dorys and gánelas,Bo ing about?
Clancy Moped
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Long night passages.
Poignard
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Our boat's motto is
"When in trouble, when in doubt,
"When in trouble, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout."
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Wansworth
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Sound advice?
Blueboatman
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If you can hold your head high and keep calm,
when others are running from harm,
It’s entirely possible you haven’t grasped the seriousness impending !
when others are running from harm,
It’s entirely possible you haven’t grasped the seriousness impending !
johnalison
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We hired a boat called Gay Lady from Potter Heigham.
Feeling the boat settle into its course as the sails fill for the first time.
Leaving sight of land.
Watching a ship's lights pass by.
Seeing a fulmar coming to say hello.
Revisiting a familiar harbour.
Visiting an unfamiliar harbour.
Feeling the boat settle into its course as the sails fill for the first time.
Leaving sight of land.
Watching a ship's lights pass by.
Seeing a fulmar coming to say hello.
Revisiting a familiar harbour.
Visiting an unfamiliar harbour.
Capt Popeye
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Yes so some can evidently enjoy a 'Gay Day' afloat ; its really what Yaching is all about I recon ; enjoyment plus relaxation of a Cruise well done , amoungst the Natural World arround us ; a sort of Bliss on Water ; nothing better I recon {
neil_s
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The boat heels to a gentle breeze, all the tell-tales are streaming, the sun floods the cockpit and I relax and survey the horizon while the Autohelm steers.
