jimi
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The heel of the boat as it picks up the strengthening breeze ...
Things I really like!
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snooks
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Reaching in a blow with too much sail up! 
nmeyrick
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The sense of peace and freedom when you kill the engine and harden up to the wind
BlueSkyNick
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This is number one in my list of three favourite parts of a trip.
Number two is cracking open a cold beer immediately after mooring up.
Third is a long hot shower.
Phoenix of Hamble
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Can't think of three things that top that list..... the first especially.... what a wonderful feeling that is....
AliM
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Certainly the first, but I'd include the bacon buttie after a dawn start or overnight sail, when the sun is just warming you up and all is going well and no one else is about.
Nigel_Ward
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A day in the Lakes when it isn't raining (not many this summer)
boatmike
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Or not as the case may be.......
boatmike
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Sitting in a secluded anchorage just off the beach and watching all the monohulls rolling like pigs......
monkfish24
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the sense of relief when you get into a mooring after a long offshore leg and it's 7 in the morning and you crack open a beer, much to the amusement of surrounding boats eating breakfast, me having had about 2 hours sleep, for some reason i enjoy that 
Woodlouse
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Doesn't sound very secluded to me...
However, the joy of knowing you've just done something that theoretically, your boat shouldn't be able to do is hard to beat.
curve
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Bacon sarnie sitting in the cockpit on a crisp autumn morning watching the sun rise.
CPD
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That moment when the engine goes off, the tranquility, and all you can hear is the ripple of the water ......... magic ........ priceless ......
puddock
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When the wife says......."well, why don't you go sailing then?".
aslabend
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The first hour of dawn when you've been alone on the early morning watch. Everything slowly becomes lighter and (if you're lucky) the sun breaks over a misty horizon. Love it.
Then someone usually gets up and spoils the moment.
Then someone usually gets up and spoils the moment.
Scotty_Tradewind
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I think this is one of the most wonderful feelings and sensations achieved whilst sailing.
Akin to lying back in a warm bath whilst a beautiful women soothes ones brow, and just when taking the first sip of a long cool drink.........mmmmmmmmmm!
Woops got carried away there
lefkasman
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Throwing the empty anti fouling can,brushes and roller into the trash can,standing back and admiring all my hard work, and then watching her slide down the slipway at the start of a new season, that does it for me
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just messing about in boats - its another world away from "it all".
Leighb
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A day in the Lakes when it isn't raining (not many this summer)
Nice picture, we have just had 5 days in the Lakes with sunshine and no rain
Great walking in beautiful scenery. Who needs foreign holidays when you can enjoy Britain at it's best?
Allan
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When I have tried to explain my love of sailing I have mentioned the time when I switch off the engine. When certain tunes come on the radio I can feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up, it is the same when the motor goes off.
Allan
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