I blame my father

[Wansworth]

The racing dinghies where one side ofthe yacht club and my dads old sloop was on the mud berths,no wonder I never picked up any birds

 

[LittleSister]

If you learnt in a Firefly everything afterwards will be straightforward! I used to sail them on Edgware reservoir and to one used to keelboats they were like a computer game today - everything unrealistically fast.

Well put about the emotional relationship with the sea - I never tire of just watching the waves and seascape.

Ha! My own first sailing boat was a Firefly!

Not so sure everything subsequent has been straightforward , but definitely agree on the endless fascination of waves and seascapes.

 

[Wansworth]

Ha! My own first sailing boat was a Firefly!

Not so sure everything subsequent has been straightforward , but definitely agree on the endless fascination of waves and seascapes.

Firefly sailors in my book where bird pullers

 

[shan]

Firefly sailors in my book where bird pullers

Gulls used to shit on your deck?

 

[Wansworth]

Gulls used to shit on your deck?

Funnily enough didn’t have that curse,pristine varnished mahogany

 

[Supertramp]

Didn't work for me. Once took a complete novice out in Firefly in a fresh breeze. Predictably we ended up capsized. After her retrieval from the water we never saw her again....

 

[johnalison]

Firefly sailors in my book where bird pullers

Not a hope. By the mid '50s the N12s were much sexier, let alone the Merlin Rockets, who even had a phallic name.

 

[Wansworth]

I did at last get to take a grammar school bird out in my tub,the grammar had just joined the comprehensive an d it was nice to meet intelligent girls,Unfortunatly I must have not got my tacking up to scratch as she never came again

 

[DownWest]

I did at last get to take a grammar school bird out in my tub,the grammar had just joined the comprehensive an d it was nice to meet intelligent girls,Unfortunatly I must have not got my tacking up to scratch as she never came again

Tacking??? Heard a few alternative words for the art of seduction, mutual enjoyment, etc but not that...

 

[DownWest]

Cors, depends on the 'crew' had one on my tiny dinghy, jumped me shortly after we cast off. Can't complain but had to swim for the rudder, that came unhooked while we were otherwise 'occupied' and drifted off. Swings and roundabouts...

 

[Wansworth]

Cors, depends on the 'crew' had one on my tiny dinghy, jumped me shortly after we cast off. Can't complain but had to swim for the rudder, that came unhooked while we were otherwise 'occupied' and drifted off. Swings and roundabouts...

Did you have yourkapok life vest on

 

[DownWest]

Did you have yourkapok life vest on

Kapock???you some sort of prevert? (Dr. Strangelove..) It was au natural!

 

[Wansworth]

Kapock???you some sort of prevert? (Dr. Strangelove..) It was au natural!

 

[Piddy]

My parents took me out sailing whilst still a tot in a Lymington Scow dinghy from the beach in Swanage. The first 'cruiser' was 18' - a West Highland sloop, kept in Chichester yacht basin as it was then in the mid 60's. Apparently my sister and I slept fore and aft on one bunk, our mum had the other with my dad on the floor. It must have been cozy but all I can remember was swimming ashore at East Head every weekend.

 

[Zagato]

My father got us stuck under a bridge when the mast jammed on our Mirror Dinghy then rammed us up on the rocks in his Westerly... I should have learnt after the warnings!