Matt,
My 2 cents worth is:
-DON'T take sail training/lesson together with your wife. Make sure you know
about sailing a boat more than her. So better you attend lesson first
-Take wife out to sea and put up a brave front
-whatever the suitation tell her you've thought of that 10 mintues before it
happened and you know what you're doing.
-If you face turns green, say its due to breakfast or lunch or something you
ate.
The most important thing is that your wife sees that you're steady and
confident in handling the boat (even though you're ****ting in your pants
down inside!)
When she sees you're ok, she'll be ok.

Been there done that! Now not only the wife has confident in my sailing, I
actually have confident in myself now!

BTW, generally speaking it isn't easy to capsize a keelboat on a nice
weather ....say 15 knots wind even with all sheets tug in if the water is
calm and not bumpy.


"Matt" wrote in message
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Hello,
I'm considering buying a sail boat within the next year or so (still
have to learn how to sail one first). I'm looking at a family cruiser
between 28-30 feet long. My wife is afraid that I'll capsize the
thing our first trip out. I just can't believe they make "family
cruisers" able to capsize in normal conditions.

Let's assume I do everything wrong our first time out. I keep the
sail tight while sailing abeam of the wind (sorry about terminology,
still learning), we hit rough water, and a storm starts. Is there any
chance I can capsize?

Thanks,
-Matt