What scares you most when sailing?

[Kukri]

There's aground - and then there's aground.

I subscribe to the Saint Thomas a'Cunliffe school - 'If you haven't run aground, you're not trying'.

Yikes.

My first boat was a Mumbles Yacht Club One Design, a nice carvel 18ft dayboat with an iron centeplate working through an iron ballast keel about six inches wide. She lived on a drying mooring off the end of West Mersea hard and she used to terrify me by drying out bolt upright, until I leaned to stow everything heavy on the same side.

 

[stu9000]

I don't want to be complacent.
There are real dangers out there.
But I love sailing for its lack of Nanny State.
It really is up to you to plan and do it right.
There isnt any other area of life (for me) that has a team working efficiently together to resolve a (hopefully small) crisis.
Without that potential for fear I don't think there would be that sense of achievement.

Interesting thread.