Sunday sailing.

[capnsensible]

Well any short sail, really. I know some people don't like the idea of nipping out for a couple of hours 'coz I can' but others might enjoy a couple of hours tootling around with no fixed agenda.

Am I alone?

 

[Clancy Moped]

We used to do day charter, so I'm used to it, but my preference is to go off on an adventure.

 

[Bajansailor]

I love going for a day sail along the coast - I never get tired of it.
Usually a day out, with a cooler containing some beers and munchies - don't stop anywhere, just sailing.

 

[johnalison]

My chief joy was in getting out of sight of land, though the arrival of wind farms has made this harder. I don’t really have the opportunity to do this nowadays, so any trip out is a bonus. I love every moment of being on a boat, from a pram dinghy to a Channel ferry, but I might make an exception for a rib, my only experiences suggesting that such trips are to be endured only if essential.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

My sailing had to have a destination if only 20 miles away or a purpose like seeing how the boat handled in some conditions or trying out a sail configuration. The idea of going out and sailing in a circle never appealed.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

We nipped out for s blast today. 11-14kn SE, the sun shone, the spray arced from the lee bow. Whats not to love?

 

[Koeketiene]

I'm quite fond of just popping out for the day.
It helps that:
1. I'm retired
2. I'm just 20 minutes away from the boat
3. The Glenan archepelago is just 13NM away.

Usually, I cast off around 10H30.
Get to the Glenan around 13H00.
Pick up a mooring, have a light lunch, a drink, a little snooze and sail back.
And I'm still home by the time my better half has got dinner on the table.

Yesterday's day trip:

 

[capnsensible]

My sailing had to have a destination if only 20 miles away or a purpose like seeing how the boat handled in some conditions or trying out a sail configuration. The idea of going out and sailing in a circle never appealed.

Like this morning, if we are nipping out for 2 or 3 hours, I can keep em busy!

 

[onesea]

Most of our sailing is day sails, it doesn’t mean fair weather it means. Life commitments work, family, dogs (although they come with us).

We take our holidays when we can. However as most sails from the Solent are best done in one tide we just don’t stop and take the tide home. Often sleeping on our home berth because weathers not great for anchor and it saves £££ sleeping at marinas we have already been to.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Like this morning, if we are nipping out for 2 or 3 hours, I can keep em busy!

Keep what busy

 

[capnsensible]

Keep what busy

Er, the people I sail with.....

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Er, the people I sail with.....

Sailing with people never appealed either

 

[capnsensible]

Sailing with people never appealed either

I've sailed with hundreds.....a few at a time.

Today was 2 of us. My oppo the owner was on board about 0920 and prepped the boat. Alpa 9.6, very nice old fashioned, with longish keel. I got there 0950. We slipped shortly after and carried out some manoeuvring practice in a couple of places in the marina. Then out in the Straits of Bocayna. Light winds, full sail, nice beam reach to the lighthouse on the w3st end of the island. Lots about sail trim and a hundred other things boaty! Tacked around just after 1130. Wind went light do motored back to marina. Secured around 1245. Quick debrief then home for tea and stickies.

Lovely morning, sun factor 20 required.

Mrs S and I are taking out another couple on a friend's Beneteau 331 on Tuesday morning. Will do some mob practice plus other stuff. Probably back for late lunch around 1300.

I do enjoy these short hops.

 

[The Q]

I sail just about every Sunday, have done for 45 years, most of the time I've sailed 2 up, but now from last year each summer I sail single handed. Today, 3 one hour races, with About a 15 minute break between each.

 

[westhinder]

I like having a destination, a boat is a wonderful way of travelling. But I enjoy just as much doing daysails. Just being on a boat is always good.
Today we bent on the sails and seeing the weather was so nice, we decided to go out and do a test sail. Just a couple of hours, but my word, did we enjoy it!

 

[Chiara’s slave]

We like to go places too, Chiara isn’t just a day boat. She’s actually quite hard work, it must be 500 calories worth to unmoor, unfold, get the sails up and sheet them home. Then the packing up another 500. But she’s exhilarating to sail, so we take what we can, when we can. And if theres more than 2 of us, sleeping on board is a bit of a trial, we are too used to not sharing space. So a day sail with friends, to a quiet beach, or Newtown, get out the paddleboards, swim, scrub off, sail home at sunset, is often what we do.

 

[Biggles Wader]

I like a day sail too. I find that three or four hours of sailing to nowhere and back puts me in a great frame of mind in a way nothing else does. Im less bothered about a "destination" which I probably wont like much anyway! Guess that makes me an old fart.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Sailing with people never appealed either

Sailing with people never appealed either

Yes, a good friend of mine, called Tom Dolan ("L'Irlandais Volant"), lives in the same vicinity as Koeketiene and tends to sail on his own, competitively, transatlantically, etc.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I must admit, I’m not fancying a Monday sail

 

[ashtead]

A day sail at beginning of season seems like a good idea to check out kit. Nothing worse than planning a longer trip only to discover x doesn’t work like last year. Solent doesn’t look that inviting. As an aside I watch Ed a programme last night on the southern island narrated by the resident Yarmouth gardener who seems to have ventured past st Mary’s to Seaview and I’m sure he said it was 15 miles to Portsmouth from Seaview but maybe I misheard.