your best piece of sailing advice

[Gunfleet]

As a sort of New Year's gift to each other, tell us what's the best piece of sailing advice you've ever heard. Mine is the idea, beloved of Thames Estuary sailors, that there's a good side to go aground and a bad side to go aground. In other words if you think you might go aground, make sure it's to windward. Round here the only certainty is that you will go aground!

 

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[ccscott49]

When I left UK for the meddy, my brother gave me one piece of advice, "always keep a hands thickness of water between your keel and the bottom" I'll always remember that.

 

[Peppermint]

When running..

tell the helm to turn the boat away from the boom if an accidental gybe threatens.

It stops that rabbit in the headlights look you sometimes come on deck to find.

I'm quite fond of.

"Keep your head and your arse dry and the rest looks after itself".

 

[ecudc]

"Mind the boom" repeatedly shouted when learning to dinghy sail. At the end of the course I finally did get clocked on the final race day when they forgot to give us the best advise I would give which is to learn how to do a controlled gybe and the trying to gybe straight from a run if you don't know how to is NOT a good idea!. I had to sit on my capzised boat for 5 minutes until the tweetypies went away..still managed to win the race though as everyone else had capsized too.

 

[DepSol]

Get a motor boat ;-)

Dom

Merry xmas and a happy new year

 

[pugwash]

The racket of haliards pinging against metal masts in the marina racks up the apparent wind force by at least two notches. Don't believe your ears. This leaves only one problem: how to convince the Mrs.

 

[Gunfleet]

Actually, I'm going to add one of my own. Don't eat fried food. It's amazing how many seasick sailors have downed a fry up at the beginning of their trip. Porridge stays down!

 

[NDG]

Stick a reef in as soon as you first think about doing it

 

[Twister_Ken]

Don\'t fall off

Falling off is dangerous. So clip on.

 

[Twister_Ken]

There are two ends to a piece of rope

So when you're doing something to one end of a rope, look and see what's happening to the other end.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Big boats

The bigger the boat, the bigger the hurt.

The bigger the boat, the bigger the bills

 

[jimi]

Re: There are two ends to a piece of rope

That I think is one of the best bits of advice! Particularly on reefing lines!

 

[Johnjo]

Buying a sailing boat will keep you poor,
SWMBO has been doing that for years,so nothing new there then!!
mike

 

[Chris_Rayner]

Better to be in wishing you were out than to be out wishing you were in.

 

[andy_wilson]

Or push the tiller towards the boom.....

See, it's getting confusing already!!!!

 

[peterk]

hi
Start by learning to sail a dinghy,
until you ENJOY sailing it by yourself.

On a BIG boat things happen a lot slower than on a sailing dinghy.
If you don't like sailing a dinghy

don't even step on a BIG boat!

...peter, www.juprowa.com/kittel

 

[graham]

If you think you can afford to own a 30 foot boat buy a 25 foot one .

Just look at all the magnificent yachts tied up in marinas while the owners are busy out earning the money to keep them.

 

[Stingo]

Always put the spoon face down in the sink.



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[wishbone]

Dont' put the paper down the hole!
our group did a good song to this at the end of floatila party and got first prize

Wishbone