What is you sailing ambition?

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As sailors we all have dreams and aspirations some of which we will do and some we will never do.
It may be to take a boat out on your own, to live aboard full time or to sail around the world.
What is your sailing ambition?
 
Nostrodamus said:
As sailors we all have dreams and aspirations some of which we will do and some we will never do.
It may be to take a boat out on your own, to live aboard full time or to sail around the world.
What is your sailing ambition?
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Sorry, but I am a living contradiction of your dictum. But perhaps a dilettante approach disqualifies me from your definition of "sailor"?

Mike.
 
Watch a great question :cool:

And having just watched the sun rise while anchored up the ria Guadiana right now without a doubt the greatest ambition is to KEEP DOING THIS! :)

But more specifically..... Hmm, high latitudes? Iceland, Norway, tierre del fuego?

Or Asia would be interesting, via South Africa..

The things single handers ponder on passage.

Lots to do out there :cool: :cool:
 
My sailing ambition is to have the boat 100% operational and totally fettled.

After 50 years of working on road vehicles I am confident that I can prepare a car or bike to 100% operation ..... but after 10 years of working on a boat I have come to the conclusion that boats are never finished. :(

Richard
 
Until last week it was to sail in my own boat to Greenland, but just having read "The Last Sunrise" sailing to the International Dateline and being the first person in the world to see the start of a new day seems a nice idea.
Mike
 
To do the annual Med in the Summer, Caribbean in the Winter circuit a couple of times before settling into 6 months on the boat, and six months having enough money to enjoy London socially and long-haul travel. I have definitely given up on any cold sails at either of the Earth's pointy bits, but haven't quite given up on a cross Pacific and Indian Ocean couple of years.

But I suspect I'll be working too long to do all of the above affordably as I really don't want to be a permanent liveaboard living carefully all year round.
 
RichardS said:
My sailing ambition is to have the boat 100% operational and totally fettled.

After 50 years of working on road vehicles I am confident that I can prepare a car or bike to 100% operation ..... but after 10 years of working on a boat I have come to the conclusion that boats are never finished. :(

Richard
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Finnished is a concept - a construct

I divide jobs into mission critical - steering and engine

and all the rest which does not really need to be done or I have a back up ready

battery nav lights, handheld radio, battery GPS. Everything else can wait for a rainy day - apart from the varnishing.

D
 
dylanwinter said:
doing it now - v happy with exploring the coast of this small island

nice people, no guns, no paperwork, great geography, lovely wildife, our own history

I could not be happier

D
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Yeah, something similar.

I'd like to live long enough to sail during a summer of good weather in South Wales.

UK circumnavigation would be nice when kids/work allow.

Maybe a few more RORC races over the years.
 
About twelve years ago we were returning from the Baltic and at Brunsbuttel a couple on a Moody 31 introduced themselves. His name was Derrick (I think he spelt it that way) and he was bosun of a SC in Christchurch. He was 77 and had navigated Lancasters in the war. In spite of having had multiple knee replacements, he thought nothing of making the long trip each year to Denmark and they were very good company. Later, they joned us on a ferry trip to Helgoland where he managed to climb 400 steps to the top, though we all took the lift back down. I have one year to go to reach his age, and although I will never be able to claim such a heroic background, my ambition is to go on sailing offshore as long as him, and make it seem so natural.
 
As soon as possible: get another four months off work to do a longer cruise. Going round Britain has shown me I can easily adapt to and enjoy that style of sailing.
A bit later, but hopefully not more than 5 years from now: go cruising for 6 months per year, thinking of Med, East Coast US.
Not with my own boat, but if the opportunity presented itself, I would grab it with both hands: Iceland, Greenland, Spitsbergen, the Arctic as we know it before it melts away forever.
 
dylanwinter said:
doing it now - v happy with exploring the coast of this small island

nice people, no guns, no paperwork, great geography, lovely wildife, our own history

I could not be happier

D
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Plenty of opportunities long ago to sail huge distances and also to make sailing my career (not just a job for a few years, as it was when I was a young thing)

I'm very glad to have had the opportunities and experiences I did have, sailing all around Europe and sometimes in America, but I am glad I never succumbed to the temptation to make it my whole life. I love sailing, couldn't imagine NOT having it as part of my life, but also love many aspects of life on land.

And now my ambition is the same as Dylan's. These days, pottering gently about our lovely coastline suits me just fine. My main ambition is to carry on doing it as long as I can. Waving palms, turquoise waters, white sands and burning sunshine hold no attractions for me whatsoever! :)
 
Not having yet another nervous breakdown so I can carry on sailing.

My ambition every time I go out is to remember where I left from and where I am going to. So far no problems.
 
Nothing too exciting but to find time to sail around Great Britain and also across the bay of biscay stopping a few times of course
 
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