My dream was to retire and sail the Caribbean and I was living my dream until the prices kept getting higher and the fear of something going wrong that we could not afford to repair. So I ended up in my paradise and quit. I have been able to live like a king on pennies here. Not to be noisy but what stops you from sailing now?
Well Ken what they say about sailing is hours and hours of complete bliss interspaced with moments of complete terror. Sailor would understand what I am saying.
sail·or /ˈsālər/ noun Origin variant of sailer . https://www.quantumsails.com/en/res...l-but-mighty-the-case-for-the-day-sailor-life
I am going to go with @Hal Pollner on this one, @Beth Gallagher . A sailor is a person that sails on a boat. A Day-sailer is a type of boat.
Yep, I agree. Sailing is sailing. I started out on small boats and worked my way up. Also, had a cruiser. Just love boating. I owned a 22' O'Day at one point. The neat and safe thing about them is that they have foam for postive floation. They won't sink.
Yes Diane I think all sailors have stories that at that time you think you might die but later you can look back on them and know you won. Sorry to hear of your loss
When I planned to retire a wanted to sail the Caribbean at that time I did not own a boat or know how to sail. So the first project was to buy a boat I found a Bayfield 25 and told the owner I would buy it if he showed me how to sail. So we made the deal he gave me one lesson and that was it. As my retirement came closer we looked for a bigger boat and ended up buying a Bayfield 40. It was owned by a co-owner of the company. He was the chief salesman for the company the original name on the boat was For Sale and that is no joke I changed the name to Silent Running interesting story about the name but that is for another time. For a person who had very little sailing experience the only race I was in I won first place on an international race across Lake Erie in 1994. I could probably write a book about all the scary times I had but that is for another day.
Occasionally, when you have that rare moment of "running before the wind", you'll use your Mainsail and Jib in a wing and wing configuration. But I've always preferred sailing on a close-hauled tack, with the Main & Jib sheeted in with no luffing! Hal
This will probably blow some minds a wing on wing sail you can not go faster than the wind but a close - haul you can. Wing on wing the wind pushes you on a tack it pulls you. go figure
Yes...that's the wonder of it all! The power boat boys don't have the experience to understand this. To them it's all Horsepower. Hal