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Sailboats over Powerboats

John

24 November 2005 14:19:10

Joined: 24 November 2005 13:48:22 | Posts: 5

I gave up on powerboats and speed when doc said i have Lupus, take a year off and relax a bit.

Bought a Comet 16 footer and sailed it from my Brewster Cape Cod brook into Cape Cod bay for exercise until i learned that my sailing friends were right; it ain't how fast you can get there it's how much fun you can have doing it!

10 years down the road, now in Venezuela, i have sailed from Mexico to Turkey and had a wonderful life in the places between. I highly recommend the 'sailing life' for anyone adventurous enough to hack it. It's far more than you imagine!

John
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AquaBoy

24 November 2005 14:24:30

Joined: 17 November 2005 15:37:45 | Posts: 13

John wrote:I gave up on powerboats and speed when doc said i have Lupus, take a year off and relax a bit.

Bought a Comet 16 footer and sailed it from my Brewster Cape Cod brook into Cape Cod bay for exercise until i learned that my sailing friends were right; it ain't how fast you can get there it's how much fun you can have doing it!

10 years down the road, now in Venezuela, i have sailed from Mexico to Turkey and had a wonderful life in the places between. I highly recommend the 'sailing life' for anyone adventurous enough to hack it. It's far more than you imagine!

John
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Re: Sailboats over Powerboats

AquaBoy

24 November 2005 14:24:50

Joined: 17 November 2005 15:37:45 | Posts: 13

That's magnificent! Thanks for the experience. I'll try to produce a video of large ketch sailing in the Baltic archipelagos next summer to show another side of sailing. Both are wonderful.
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Re: Sailboats over Powerboats

Peter

24 November 2005 14:34:33

Joined: 24 November 2005 14:29:53 | Posts: 3

If this video doesn't get your blood fired up to sail, you need to be nailed inside a wooden box.

http://www.catsailor.net/images/Videos/Spitfire%20vid.wmv

This is why I sail!

Regards,
Peter
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Re: Sailboats over Powerboats

SeaWeed

24 November 2005 14:41:11

Joined: 24 November 2005 14:39:02 | Posts: 7

Peter wrote:If this video doesn't get your blood fired up to sail, you need to be nailed inside a wooden box.

http://www.catsailor.net/images/Videos/Spitfire%20vid.wmv

This is why I sail!

Regards,
Peter
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Re: Sailboats over Powerboats

SeaWeed

24 November 2005 14:41:35

Joined: 24 November 2005 14:39:02 | Posts: 7

I'm a dinghy instructor, havn't found much about dinghies around on here?!!(although those Spitfire vids are AWESOME!)
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Re: Sailboats over Powerboats

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07 January 2006 10:24:29

Joined: 15 November 2005 17:27:31 | Posts: 128

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