Any Sailors on here?

[OneforfreedomParticipant 930]

Hobby, recreational, or otherwise- does anyone have experiencing Sailing?

[RoyDalParticipant]

I was an avid fair weather sailor at one time. Small boats in sheltered waters. It is great fun. I might take it up again, but circumstances dictate against at this time.

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[OneforfreedomParticipant 930]

RoyDal wrote:

I was an avid fair weather sailor at one time. Small boats in sheltered waters. It is great fun. I might take it up again, but circumstances dictate against at this time.

How hard was it to learn? What boat did you have? Where did you sail?
I’m thinking of buying a Catalina 22 one day…easy budget, can use it for nice daylong cruises.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

I have been know to throw some canvas in the wind ☺

I have a Baveria 40 and sail as and when I can. So far been along French, Spanish, Portuguese coasts.

One day I’m hoping to do the milk run. Atlantic crossing then through Panama Canal and onwards..

I would say it took me around 5-6 years in total to learn from scratch.

Navigation & Astronavigation were hard for me although Im normally ok in the air.

I used to constantly get sick and still try and avoid the harsher weather systems.

Stay on a boat long enough and no matter how hardened you are … you will puke ☺

[felixParticipant 406]

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more throttle ..... less brakes.....

[felixParticipant 406]

ILiveAgain wrote:

I have a Baveria 40 and sail as and when I can.

WOW… Do you single hand that? Where do you keep it. Also for me it is the slow swells on a hot day that makes me puke. I short circuited a lot of mistakes by taking training and getting a couple of certs. Biggest boat I ever tried to manage was a Catalina 31.

more throttle ..... less brakes.....

[MyselfParticipant 353]

I’ve done a fair bit of sailing in the past on the Great Lakes. Didn’t take much to learn the basics, but like with many things there is always room to improve. I would think anyone with some experience in a small power boat could pilot a 21-22′ sailboat in and out of harbour without a problem. Once you are in open water you can just practice getting the sails out and making turns, learning how much you can drive into the wind, etc.

Look for a sailing club in your area. These groups often have club boats that you can take out, have members to learn from, and are very reasonably priced.

Casting anchor and spending nights out on the water is an amazing experience. It feels like true wilderness, but totally different from camping in a remote location on land.

Sailing is one of those things that can be difficult to make time for depending on where you live. Having a bigger boat also allows you to enjoy a greater range of sailing conditions, but are more expensive, can require more maintenance, are difficult to transport, etc.

I would love to get back into sailing eventually – perhaps later in life.

[The ShrikeParticipant 147]

Not much blow boat experience but do nuclear subs count? I’ve been wanting to learn sailing wind powered surface vessels for a while and grew up around ski boats. The few times I’ve sailed a sailboat (Sunfish as a kid) it was amazing.

I’m really wanting to take some lessons and learn how to be a “real” sailor. I’ve sailed everywhere from the North Atlantic to the Arctic, Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific. I even went through the Panama Canal once.

I’ve seen storms like you wouldn’t believe. Gulf of Alaska and the Irish Sea in winter will seriously put you in your place with regards to what a small puny human you really are in the face of Mother Nature. The thought of being caught in big seas in a small boat scares the s~~~ out of me. Having that kind of freedom with my own sailboat and a diesel engine backup sounds like the greatest freedom a man could have. I just can’t see doing it though without a crew. I like sleeping.

[OneforfreedomParticipant 930]

ILiveAgain wrote:

I have been know to throw some canvas in the wind ☺

I have a Baveria 40 and sail as and when I can. So far been along French, Spanish, Portuguese coasts.

One day I’m hoping to do the milk run. Atlantic crossing then through Panama Canal and onwards..

That looks like an amazing boat- did you single hand that yourself?!
How was your experience sailing and visiting various ports? Did you enjoy the adventure?

felix wrote:

Biggest boat I ever tried to manage was a Catalina 31.

Did you enjoy the voyage or was it too hard to solo? Where did you cruise on it?

Myself wrote:

I’ve done a fair bit of sailing in the past on the Great Lakes. Didn’t take much to learn the basics, but like with many things there is always room to improve. I would think anyone with some experience in a small power boat could pilot a 21-22′ sailboat in and out of harbour without a problem. Once you are in open water you can just practice getting the sails out and making turns, learning how much you can drive into the wind, etc.

Look for a sailing club in your area. These groups often have club boats that you can take out, have members to learn from, and are very reasonably priced.

Casting anchor and spending nights out on the water is an amazing experience. It feels like true wilderness, but totally different from camping in a remote location on land.

Sailing is one of those things that can be difficult to make time for depending on where you live. Having a bigger boat also allows you to enjoy a greater range of sailing conditions, but are more expensive, can require more maintenance, are difficult to transport, etc.

I would love to get back into sailing eventually – perhaps later in life.

Thank you for sharing! How is the water in Great Lakes? I’m guessing it’s fairly calm?

[The ShrikeParticipant 147]

The Great Lakes are not calm. Maybe at times but they are an inland ocean with a frequency to the waves different than anywhere else in the world. Dangerous seas, they really shouldn’t even be called a lake.

[MendokusaiParticipant 256]

RCN 85-90 wish we had nukes I’d still be in!

[MyselfParticipant 353]

Oneforfreedom wrote:

Thank you for sharing! How is the water in Great Lakes? I’m guessing it’s fairly calm?

As @TheShrike mentioned, the open lakes are pretty rough. Lake Erie is shallow and has really short but abusive waves. Lake Huron and Superior are much deeper and more ocean-like and develop huge swells. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a weekend that has the right weather conditions so you can enjoy a full day on the open lakes.

But there are exceptions – for example Long Point Bay in Lake Erie is a gem. The point protects the bay from prevailing winds. It is almost always calm enough even for small boats and has great fishing.

[The ShrikeParticipant 147]

Mendokusai wrote:

RCN 85-90 wish we had nukes I’d still be in!

We had nuclear weapons and propulsion and I still couldn’t wait to get out. I spent years, literally with a nuclear weapon at the foot of my rack, sleeping a hundred feet in front of nuclear reactor. Stuff I wouldn’t want a hundred miles in range of my house. I still love the ocean but man, I wouldn’t want to hold up in a tube like that for months again if my life depended on it.

People think it’s the claustrophobia but it’s not. It’s the cabin fever. Imagine locking the doors to your work come Monday 8/24/2015 and nobody leaving the office again until Thanksgiving. It’s like that. I don’t see how men do that for 20 years. People say they appreciate the sacrifice military people give but they can’t even begin to imagine. My hat’s off to my brothers that stayed.

[Jon the Ex-SquidParticipant 298]

The Shrike wrote:

MCP wrote:

RCN 85-90 wish we had nukes I’d still be in!

We had nuclear weapons and propulsion and I still couldn’t wait to get out. I spent years, literally with a nuclear weapon at the foot of my rack, sleeping a hundred feet in front of nuclear reactor. Stuff I wouldn’t want a hundred miles in range of my house. I still love the ocean but man, I wouldn’t want to hold up in a tube like that for months again if my life depended on it.

People think it’s the claustrophobia but it’s not. It’s the cabin fever. Imagine locking the doors to your work come Monday 8/24/2015 and nobody leaving the office again until Thanksgiving. It’s like that. I don’t see how men do that for 20 years. People say they appreciate the sacrifice military people give but they can’t even begin to imagine. My hat’s off to my brothers that stayed.

Aye. I’m glad I came aboard as a petty officer. Never had to sleep in the torpedo room (except during field days when I’d crawl behind the tubes to sleep). I did a 5-year sea tour, went to shore duty, and got out after that. They changed the sea-shore rotation though, I hear. 5 – 3 – 3 – 3 etc.

Sadly, back to the topic, I only know how to sail under water but seriously considered buying a boat to live aboard.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

I had a 35 foor sailboat for a year. I loved it. Single handled it all the time. But I had it super easy. I sailed out of marina del rey in LA where there was no weather and you could go out nearly every day. There is nothing like watching the dolphins swim along with you.

There is a calming meditative state I found myself in while sailing, good for the nerves.

My son made me get rid of the boat. I had sole custody and my son decided, despite my love for it and seeing it as a great father/son activity he decided to torpedo the activity.

Now I live in the North East 45 minutes from the coast and this makes sailing difficult at best.

Having custody of children is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Don’t fight for custody, go your own way.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[OneforfreedomParticipant 930]

Puffin Stuff wrote:

I had a 35 foor sailboat for a year. I loved it. Single handled it all the time. But I had it super easy. I sailed out of marina del rey in LA where there was no weather and you could go out nearly every day. There is nothing like watching the dolphins swim along with you.

There is a calming meditative state I found myself in while sailing, good for the nerves.

My son made me get rid of the boat. I had sole custody and my son decided, despite my love for it and seeing it as a great father/son activity he decided to torpedo the activity.

Now I live in the North East 45 minutes from the coast and this makes sailing difficult at best.

How did your son make you get rid of YOUR boat?
Do you remember what model boat your 35′ was?

Also, how much did you spend on a slip in Marina del Rey/boat maintenance in an entire year?

[WindwarriorParticipant 0]

new mgtow here, but think i’ve always been, just discovered all this stuff

been sailing out of the womb, also avid kitesurfer and windsurfer, pretty much a ghost at this point, pretty soon plan on heading south with my main squeez SV Hellcat Maggie

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[RennieParticipant]

The Shrike wrote:

The Great Lakes are not calm. Maybe at times but they are an inland ocean with a frequency to the waves different than anywhere else in the world. Dangerous seas, they really shouldn’t even be called a lake.

And they have devoured many ships over the past 200 years. I was up at Lake Huron last year and it was so blue, it was really beautiful.

But on the other hand it is a lake with many wrecks that can become very vicious like the 1913 storm.

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