Why do we go sailing??

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Went out today for the first sail of the year. It rained, sometimes like bullets. Got soaked through my foulies, right up me arms and down me neck. Despite being a good few degrees of Latitude south of the snow and ice, it was still very cold. Numb fingers and toes.

Did I enjoy it? Yeah!!

I'm not sure quite why we subject ourselves to this, maybe its 'coz I can' or is there some deeper reason out there?

I don't have a clue, must be barking!!!

Keep your bilges dry.
 
I am not inclined to do it much nowadays....

But in the 90's I used to pick really horrid days with rain coming down like marbles and the bay full of white horses to go out single handed.

I used to tell all my chums and I invited them to join me.

Of course, none of them volunteered. They all of them suddenly had some commitment that prevented them from coming along, you know...waiting for a fax...picking the children up from school....a meeting....;)

They would bundle into cars and park at the elbow of the North Mole and they would brave the elements there to see me outward bound under storm jib and storm trysail with the boat behaving like a bucking bronco, and they would stand huddled there in a tight group waving and nodding their heads from side to side as if to say "Oh Dear...That's the last we will see of him"...:eek:

The challenge was "Africa and Back". (Gibraltar to Punta Almina and back).

Then this odessey may have taken 9...10...or even 11 hours...terrific every time...:D

In the meantime...the marina received all these "anxious" calls that were logged that they presented to me on my return...as soon as I tied up and stepped ashore...and then ...miraculously they would all turn up at Bianca's to hear all about the adventure...and to consume anything alcoholic and wet...:D
 
VO5 said:
I am not inclined to do it much nowadays....
as soon as I tied up and stepped ashore...and then ...miraculously they would all turn up at Bianca's to hear all about the adventure...and to consume anything alcoholic and wet...:D
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Ah well
There's the rub

See us Mobo stinkey types have it sorted.

4 Hours max
Battling through 1 metre waves:rolleyes:
Bloody tiring mates

Well?
At 20 kts yer knees take a pounding in a 60 footer
Tiss the cocktail table that's fixed to low on some!:D

Then after the battering
Bleedin parkink the Thing
Now afhter 5 gan tees the bleedin bot gets ter look big innit

so k says one mate i dun me pb2 on a rib

Lads and Lasses.

'Why do we go out sailing'
Or in my case, just messin about in a mobo

Cos its bloody great.

And VO5 You know it:D:p
 
I forgot to tell you....
During that period, the piermaster at Marina Bay was a mutual friend of all of us. He was in on the joke.:o
He would ring one of them to tell him the boat was finally "in" and that I was soaked and at the bar at Bianca's...
Then they would all come down to Bianca's in a group.
Before they arrived, I would open the sink tap and with a short length of hose
flood the bilges to make the floorboards float about in there.
Then when they came to Bianca's to meet me in my dripping oilies....I would pick one of them...the most impressionable one...;)...and casually ask him to go on board and pump the bilges because I "was too tired"...:D
The inevitable rumour spread round the town for days afterwards that the seas had come aboard and even the floorboards were floating about down there..:eek: Endless friends and acquaintances and even perfect strangers offered me drinks in exchange for a first hand account of the ordeal...:D
 
jonic said:
What a ship is......what she really is, is freedom.

Cap'n Jack Sparrow.

That's why I go.
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Not once Eborders is in force! If you dont behave like a cross channel ferry (i.e go when you said you would, with the submitted list of people on board, and dont turn up at the right place at the right time and with the same people), then you will be breaking the law and 'technically' (QV will) be prosecuted.
 
capnsensible said:
Went out today for the first sail of the year. It rained, sometimes like bullets. Got soaked through my foulies, right up me arms and down me neck. Despite being a good few degrees of Latitude south of the snow and ice, it was still very cold. Numb fingers and toes.

Did I enjoy it? Yeah!!

I'm not sure quite why we subject ourselves to this, maybe its 'coz I can' or is there some deeper reason out there?

I don't have a clue, must be barking!!!

Keep your bilges dry.
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Used to be rather the same mind set, when I rode my Motorbike in days of yore - I still quite enjoy pitting myself against the snow & ice in my non-4X4 in my eightieth year.
 
VO5 said:
I forgot to tell you....
During that period, the piermaster at Marina Bay was a mutual friend of all of us. He was in on the joke.:o
He would ring one of them to tell him the boat was finally "in" and that I was soaked and at the bar at Bianca's...
Then they would all come down to Bianca's in a group.
Before they arrived, I would open the sink tap and with a short length of hose
flood the bilges to make the floorboards float about in there.
Then when they came to Bianca's to meet me in my dripping oilies....I would pick one of them...the most impressionable one...;)...and casually ask him to go on board and pump the bilges because I "was too tired"...:D
The inevitable rumour spread round the town for days afterwards that the seas had come aboard and even the floorboards were floating about down there..:eek: Endless friends and acquaintances and even perfect strangers offered me drinks in exchange for a first hand account of the ordeal...:D
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I'm surprised they did'nt offer you a strait jacket.....surely that is what real friends would do:D (I am sure you had fun but what a *******):)
 
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kristifercolumnbus said:
I'm surprised they did'nt offer you a strait jacket.....surely that is what real friends would do:D (I am sure you had fun but what a *******):)
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That is because of your viewpoint:D
You must be one of literally millions of fair weather sailors.
I have met quite a few......
They start by looking at the horizon...then they wrinkle their noses when they see "THE RIPPLES OUT THERE AND THE WHITE HORSES"..:D....then they look at you and say "nah" or something like it and go and do something useful like putting the kettle on.
They prefer to stay in the creek....:eek:..."safe"....like you probably do also....as they don't have....among other things proper sailors need..a paddle...:D
All of you miss the fun, HUGE FUN, if only you dared to dare, which is what life and sailing, which is of itself a lifestyle, are all about.:D
 
VO5 said:
That is because of your viewpoint:D
You must be one of literally millions of fair weather sailors.
I have met quite a few......
They start by looking at the horizon...then they wrinkle their noses when they see "THE RIPPLES OUT THERE AND THE WHITE HORSES"..:D....then they look at you and say "nah" or something like it and go and do something useful like putting the kettle on.
They prefer to stay in the creek....:eek:..."safe"....like you probably do also....as they don't have....among other things proper sailors need..a paddle...:D
All of you miss the fun, HUGE FUN, if only you dared to dare, which is what life and sailing, which is of itself a lifestyle, are all about.:D
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Naa your barking up the wrong tree mate.I was refering to deliberately making it look like you had a harder time for your mates by swamping the boat.I enjoy sailing I just do not see the need for deciept (to be serious).:p
 
kristifercolumnbus said:
Naa your barking up the wrong tree mate.I was refering to deliberately making it look like you had a harder time for your mates by swamping the boat.I enjoy sailing I just do not see the need for deciept (to be serious).:p
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Naa mate...it is not deceipt....deceit is wot u probably mean mate...
but there again one can understand your lack of a sense of humour given you are up to your ears in snow at the moment with an icicle at the end of your nose.:eek:

In sunny temperate climates fthe pursuit of fun and laughter is the order of the day, not the opposite...:D
 
VO5 said:
Naa mate...it is not deceipt....deceit is wot u probably mean mate...
but there again one can understand your lack of a sense of humour given you are up to your ears in snow at the moment with an icicle at the end of your nose.:eek:

In sunny temperate climates fthe pursuit of fun and laughter is the order of the day, not the opposite...:D
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Odds are you live in Bogna Regis:)
 
I go sailing because...

I can look down on other sailors all of whom are less competetent than me - especially whe n it comes to entering and leaving marinas - something I seldom do as the boat doesn't move that often

I love to make a noise when I come back from the bar as a stumble along the marina pontoons late at night telling anyone who will listen what a great sailor I am

on quiet moorings, and this is a favourite of mine, I like to run my engine at all hours to keep the batteries charged up and the generator to provide power for the TV and microwave

I wear very expensive wet weather tops while in the marina - festooned in safety harnesses and whistles and personal epribs. I never wear the bottoms though - not needed

I love those very expensive leather deck boots too - great for country walks so everyone will think that I would rather be sailing

I can complain about the outragous costs of chandlery these days and how much it costs to keep a 40 foot boat in a marina on the Hamble/Orwell/Ramsgate harbour

accumulate ever more impressive RYA certificates for day skipper, night skipper, afternoon skipper, offshore skipper, onshore skipper and marina skipper

Check that my radio is still working by sound signal checking with anyone I can think of

tell people not to tread on my lovely clean sheets

tell other people what, and what not to do while on my boat

ask rhetorically "what happened to customer service"

I can write the most precise log book in the world to show my non-sailing friends what a deeply technical business sailing is and then I can enter it for competitions where people will judge how lovely my log book is
 
Why do we go sailing??


This is why:



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Me TOO Dylan!!!

dylanwinter said:
I can look down on other sailors all of whom are less competetent than me - especially whe n it comes to entering and leaving marinas - something I seldom do as the boat doesn't move that often

I love to make a noise when I come back from the bar as a stumble along the marina pontoons late at night telling anyone who will listen what a great sailor I am

on quiet moorings, and this is a favourite of mine, I like to run my engine at all hours to keep the batteries charged up and the generator to provide power for the TV and microwave

I wear very expensive wet weather tops while in the marina - festooned in safety harnesses and whistles and personal epribs. I never wear the bottoms though - not needed

I love those very expensive leather deck boots too - great for country walks so everyone will think that I would rather be sailing

I can complain about the outragous costs of chandlery these days and how much it costs to keep a 40 foot boat in a marina on the Hamble/Orwell/Ramsgate harbour

accumulate ever more impressive RYA certificates for day skipper, night skipper, afternoon skipper, offshore skipper, onshore skipper and marina skipper

Check that my radio is still working by sound signal checking with anyone I can think of

tell people not to tread on my lovely clean sheets

tell other people what, and what not to do while on my boat

ask rhetorically "what happened to customer service"

I can write the most precise log book in the world to show my non-sailing friends what a deeply technical business sailing is and then I can enter it for competitions where people will judge how lovely my log book is
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You know a few as well then?

And after looking at the rest of this thread I’ve fallen in LOVE with Kate!!!!! :D
 
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