Nude sailing

[catmandoo]

I have noticed a trend over the years for certain northern europeans to sail around the med in the nude . Is this a cultural thing or does it apply only to liveaboards ?
I can see a good reason for liveaboards to adopt this technique as it cuts down on the need to be continually washing clothes, reduces consumption of fresh water and also protects the environment . Also the loss of privacy on a relatively small area means that one can be less embarrassed about such matters when living together in remote places for some time .

The crunch comes when one has to return to civilisation to restock supplies and find that clothes carefully stored away are mouldy and inhabited by cockroaches and the like and in some instances have become part of a rats nest

In the past I suppose this was the reason for our ancestors to resort to blue paint which leads me on to remark that I have recently seen some people around with spots of paint on them which I originally attributed to anti foul paint splashes

Would any live aboard care to comment ?

 

[vyv_cox]

Probably best answered if you repost on a German Men Only forum! Seems a most uncomfortable way to work on board to me, to which I suppose they would respond 'Have you ever tried it?'. No, and I don't think I will.

 

[Nostrodamus]

We tried it once but the wife was shocked as the boat would not respond to her steering. Turns out she was not holding the tiller but I had a big smile on my face!

 

[Cardo]

We tried it once but the wife was shocked as the boat would not respond to her steering. Turns out she was not holding the tiller but I had a big smile on my face!

Groan!

My other half has stated that she fully intends to be nude most of the time, once we set off. Something about lack of ten lines...

 

[marklucas]

Whilst cruising in the Med, my wife have often sailed in the nude.

Only once did we have a problem, when, having swum ashore for lunch at a taverna (in swimming costumes) we asked the taverna owner to deliver fresh supplies of water and beer.

This he did in his launch, but was a bit surprised to see the flesh in the cockpit as he came over in his launch.

 

[little_roundtop]

The only part of a real liveaboard's body that should be white is the soles of their feet.

 

[RupertW]

Seen it and done it since the early 80s sailing around South Coast and Brittany - if suffciently far away from others that they'd need their binoculars to make out details of either of us (good luck to them if they're that way inclined). Not that many days each Summer when it's warm enough alas.

Moving to the Med a couple of years ago the big change was that nudity continued on many boats of different nationalities in anchorages as well. I like the relaxed attitude even if I'm not that bold myself. Now when it becomes the norm in Marinas....

 

[Andy and Lyn]

now back in the UK (for this summer only) chance would be fine thing! Last weekend anything but(t) naked! 13 degrees, oilies on in Force 6!! Back to nakedness next spring though (sometimes).

 

[marklucas]

I still remember sailing into Vassiliki on Lefkas with some friends many years ago.

We were a couple of miles out and were stand on boat to a dinghy with a spinnaker up. So being nice people we eased our course to allow them to pass unhindered - but we would pass quite close.

Nothing untoward about that.

Until we passed and saw that this couple in their 60s were starkers - and had an impressive all over tan.

We waved politely!

 

[Downsman]

This nudity business has it's pitfalls for the unwary..
Anchored in the Cyclades and pottering about in the cockpit I was surprised to hear a distinctly American voice calling me. I looked over the side and there was a completely starkers lady in the sea alongside. I was invited to visit 'their' boat for a drink. Anchored nearby was an American flagged ketch and some distance off a Greek flagged boat.
Rowed the dinghy over to the American boat and standing up hanging onto the toerail, I saw there was a naked lady sunbathing, I called 'Hello'.. She took one look at me, screamed and hurled a plastic drink container at me...

Wrong boat..the American lady was on the Greek charter vessel, this American lady definitely did not want some scruffy Limey climbing aboard her boat..All sorted out later amid much laughter but if you are going nude at least stick a recognition sticker on yer bum..

 

[Bobobolinsky]

I'm quite happy naked, but when lying on a beach, Save the Whale keep coming and shooing me into the water

 

[CharlesSwallow]

The only part of a real liveaboard's body that should be white is the soles of their feet.

This does of course NOT apply to healthy, heterosexual proponents of the Missionary position.

Chas

 

[Glyka]

One thing I didn't like about the Ionian is that the (only) time I had an one month holiday there I didn't take by bathing suit off - not once!.

Cyclades for ever

 

[LittleSister]

Ah, yes! There's something seductive and liberating about the weather and the company of cosmopolitan strangers.

Some years ago I was holidaying (sadly not sailing) in the Greek Islands. On a walk we came across a nude beach, so my then girlfriend and I stripped off and sprawled out. A while later we were idly watching the comings and goings on at the water's edge in front of us, when girfriend suddenly pointed at two people stolling past and exclaimed 'Isn't that George and Jasmine*?' (names changed to protect the innocent). Indeed it was, so we jumped up and greeted them. Very strange to be stark naked and shaking hands with fully clothed old friends from old Blighty!

 

[CharlesSwallow]

Ah, yes! There's something seductive and liberating about the weather and the company of cosmopolitan strangers.

Some years ago I was holidaying (sadly not sailing) in the Greek Islands. On a walk we came across a nude beach, so my then girlfriend and I stripped off and sprawled out. A while later we were idly watching the comings and goings on at the water's edge in front of us, when girfriend suddenly pointed at two people stolling past and exclaimed 'Isn't that George and Jasmine*?' (names changed to protect the innocent). Indeed it was, so we jumped up and greeted them. Very strange to be stark naked and shaking hands with fully clothed old friends from old Blighty!

I'm trying to work that one around to the joke which ends with the line "He isn't even a member of this club" but at this time of the morning, finding it rather difficult.

Chas

 

[Bobobolinsky]

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[Nanjo]

Naked

This is my first year in the Ionian, so it's all new to me. Am going naked whenever the chance arrises. I have noticed that it's only the German,Italian,French men who seem to do 10 laps of there boat naked after a swim though just to dry of?

 

[JamesFrance]

Years ago I took a group of Cadaques hippies out for a day of sailing. As usual all the clothing came off as soon as we raised the anchor.

I was rather amused by one of the Spanish girls who said that she felt rather insulted, as usually when she took her clothes off in front of men they showed a little more obvious interest.

 

[catmandoo]

Years ago I took a group of Cadaques hippies out for a day of sailing. As usual all the clothing came off as soon as we raised the anchor.

I was rather amused by one of the Spanish girls who said that she felt rather insulted, as usually when she took her clothes off in front of men they showed a little more obvious interest.

several years ago in the outermost marina of the Kornati Islands in Croatia i.e. the one which is in the channel between 2 islands we were storm bound when a boat came racing in to tie up to the pontoon . the two young men aboard took of their clothes completely to dive in and tie up their boat as they did not have an engine . All in front of a large community of boaties having their evening meal . The females in all the crews were the ones who were totally speechless for once

 

[catmandoo]

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