Not getting anywhere particularly

[Wansworth]

With unstable weather much pleasure can be had from just sailing out to sea without a need to get anywhere,maybe sailing in stronger winds than your used to with a safe harbour close,which offers a nights safe anchour age or snug marina berth a walk ashore ready for the next day

 

[Concerto]

With unstable weather much pleasure can be had from just sailing out to sea without a need to get anywhere,maybe sailing in stronger winds than your used to with a safe harbour close,which offers a nights safe anchour age or snug marina berth a walk ashore ready for the next day

Is this a story you are writing or just a dream? I thought you needed a boat to do this.

 

[Wansworth]

Is this a story you are writing or just a dream? I thought you needed a boat to do this.

No was weather bound in thr ria de Vigo but could get out and sail in stronger winds that I would set sail in down the coast

 

[neil_s]

Agree - I don't get anywhere particularly most of the time!

 

[Wansworth]

Agree - I don't get anywhere particularly most of the time!

It’s all in the mind

 

[Bouba]

To me a boat is for being on the water....a car is for going places

 

[johnalison]

I have had to restrict my sailing for the last few years, and one of the things I miss is having a ‘destination’, whether ten miles away or five hundred. I had a grand day out yesterday with some neighbours, which we all enjoyed greatly, but we ended up back where we started.

 

[Bouba]

I have had to restrict my sailing for the last few years, and one of the things I miss is having a ‘destination’, whether ten miles away or five hundred. I had a grand day out yesterday with some neighbours, which we all enjoyed greatly, but we ended up back where we started.

The good thing about ending up where you started is that it’s a cheap night...you've already paid for the berth. My port is in a river it costs €7000 per year...but it’s too dangerous in the winter because of possible flooding...so I keep her in another port for a cheap winter rate of €2000...and if I take a winter break in another port I have to pay for that as well...so potentially I pay three times for a night out

 

[PhillM]

I’m feeling tired and run down this weekend. So decided to come down to the boat, cook a meal, have some wine and sleep. Nothing more. I did think about doing some cleaning and other jobs but decided against it. Going back home for a late lunch now. May even have a nap then come back for Saturday night. People pay a fortune for a static caravan by the water. I have my own actually on it. I don’t think I’ll go anywhere this weekend. But who cares, I’m relaxing.

 

[Daydream believer]

I’m feeling tired and run down this weekend. So decided to come down to the boat, cook a meal, have some wine and sleep. Nothing more. I did think about doing some cleaning and other jobs but decided against it. Going back home for a late lunch now. May even have a nap then come back for Saturday night. People pay a fortune for a static caravan by the water. I have my own actually on it. I don’t think I’ll go anywhere this weekend. But who cares, I’m relaxing.

Then it all gets spoiled by some idiot moaning about boats that do not go anywhere ,clogging up berths & moorings.

 

[Kelpie]

The good thing about ending up where you started is that it’s a cheap night...you've already paid for the berth. My port is in a river it costs €7000 per year...but it’s too dangerous in the winter because of possible flooding...so I keep her in another port for a cheap winter rate of €2000...and if I take a winter break in another port I have to pay for that as well...so potentially I pay three times for a night out

Where on earth is that??

 

[Bouba]

Where on earth is that??

South of France...whereas most places here the moorings can be bought and sold..all the places in the ports around the rade de Hyeres are owned by the local council...and you go on a waiting list to get a permanent place (you don’t own it but can stay till you die...or go broke)...but the waiting is a minimum of twenty years and often much much longer...leaving only a very few private ports available...and obviously not in the best location

 

[Kelpie]

South of France...whereas most places here the moorings can be bought and sold..all the places in the ports around the rade de Hyeres are owned by the local council...and you go on a waiting list to get a permanent place (you don’t own it but can stay till you die...or go broke)...but the waiting is a minimum of twenty years and often much much longer...leaving only a very few private ports available...and obviously not in the best location

And when you leave, you're still in the Med. Ah well at least the wine is good.

 

[PhillM]

Then it all gets spoiled by some idiot moaning about boats that do not go anywhere ,clogging up berths & moorings.

Oh yes ... although more often than not I do go places. I just didn't feel like thrashing to windward in F5/6 today and back tomorrow in the same + rain.

 

[Daydream believer]

Oh yes ... although more often than not I do go places. I just didn't feel like thrashing to windward in F5/6 today and back tomorrow in the same + rain.

Whimp

 

[Bouba]

And when you leave, you're still in the Med. Ah well at least the wine is good.

You know we are talking about the Blue Med...not the Welsh Med...or the Kent Med

 

[fisherman]

I wonder about passage making, is it just like a motorway trip, with or without heavy traffic/roadworks, depending on wind. But I spent 45 years fishing so not hankering for long trips...

yet.

So my last voyage was from Restronguet to Trago Mills, and the Front for a beer. Does it for me.

 

[johnalison]

I wonder about passage making, is it just like a motorway trip, with or without heavy traffic/roadworks, depending on wind. But I spent 45 years fishing so not hankering for long trips...

yet.

So my last voyage was from Restronguet to Trago Mills, and the Front for a beer. Does it for me.

There is always an ambiguity, in that however pleasurable the sailing there is always a longing to get to the destination. The longest I’ve been on passage is three days, but ocean sailors must feel it acutely. The satisfaction of arriving safely is the reward for making the effort though.

 

[Cspirit]

I did a lovely trip last week - Lymington to Alderney, delivering daughter’s boat for the start off their family holiday. Little wind, so motoring in a calm sea. I’ve not done a channel passage nor visited Alderney for over twenty years but it was ‘time on the boat’ - chattting with crew, lunch, sleep, reading, just looking at the sea. Not really ‘sailing’ I suppose, but as others have said, it’s about the relationship with the sea and the boat and so absolutely delightful, and as a bonus, Alderney has not changed that much in over two decades. I must admit that I don’t miss all that beating to windward in a force 6..........