What is proper sailing

[iangrant]

Is it
a: Long distance real trips
b: Poping around the harbour in small cheap old boats
c: Waterbourne Caravaning
d: Motor boating

 

[Boatman]

All of the above ?????????

 

[iangrant]

Correct answer!

 

[Boatman]

Oh but you forgot

1. getting wet in the inflatable
2. the booze
3. the fantastic food
4. the hook dragging at 4am etc etc………………..

Or have I got the wrong end of the boom

 

[billmacfarlane]

Proper sailing is what you make it. If you're into long distance stuff then that's what it is. Ditto the rest of the options you mention.

 

[vyv_cox]

Then what is improper sailing?

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[chrisc]

well i have just been on my boat for 16days total distance 500 miles
motor has run for 60 hours , so about 165 miles sailing ,150 miles motor
sailing .and the rest motoring . 3 days using the boat as a hotel while a storm
blew out (in Copenhagen ,must be the best bolt hole ever) Not the sort of long
sailing we had hoped for ...BUT was this proper sailing ??????

 

[Bergman]

I would suggest all the above and as many variations as the imagination can produce - with the proviso that one does not spoil other peoples enjoyment in doing it.

 

[billmacfarlane]

Improper sailing

When your version of proper sailing interferes with someone elses and spoils their proper sailing. Bloody hell my head hurts after thinking that up.

 

[johndf]

This sounds very much like my summer trip, except mine was about 700 miles in 24 days. Unfortunately I had no more sailing miles than you. Most of my extra ones were motor sailing. I didn't get toantywhere as exotic as Copenhagen - my 3 days weatherbound was in Dover.

So next year the plan is for less miles, but more sailing.

As for proper sailing, I agree it's whatever takes your fancy. Improper sailing is the motorboaters who buzz close past you at 30 knots with not a care for the wash they produce.

 

[Guest]

Re: Improper sailing

Exactly!

 

[Grehan]

Ian
. . . you don't mean "Pooping around harbour in smelly boats", do you?


[back to those holding tanks methinks . .]

O'Greachain

 

[Guest]

A minority view, perhaps

You are not sailing until you "set sail". You cannot set sail by pressing a starter button. Motor sailing may be sailing, but it beats me how anyone can get any feeling of union with the planet (my idea of a proper sail) by burning more of the fossil fuel that we so assiduously destroy during our working lives.

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