... it's difficult
to explain to family & friends who aren't sailors or cruisers.

Bobsprit wrote:
That's because your family probably knows that you prefer to sail,
wanted a sailboat and that you were actively looking at cruising
sailboats, even showing Kathie a C&C at one point.

Hey Boobsie, are you still butting in, pretending that you know
anything about sailing and/or cruising?

The parts that are difficult to explain are schedule/location
problems, integral to travel by water.... and basic infrastructure
like dependence on holding tank pump-outs.


katysails wrote:
...I;'ve seen plenty
of sailing families whose kids have had it...they want a life on teh
weekends other than going to the marina and hanging about on a
boat...they want their friends, parties, shopping, etc. So then you have
a choice: you let them go off by themselves and suffer the consequences;
or you make them go with you and sit with a boatful of resentful kids
who whine and pule about having to be there...or...maybe you'll get
lucky...once in a while a person does and the kids take to it like ducks
out of water...most likely not, though,, it will be some combination of
the first two scenarios.

A lot of successful junior sailing programs are structured around the
kids using it as a social outlet, so that they want to be there and
secondarily want to learn to sail better.

... Enjoy what you have now. Sail like you want
now. You can't predict the future and you shouldn't try reading into the
lives of othersthings that may not be there at all.

You mean the way Boobsie can't believe somebody who could afford a C&C
121 wouldn't buy it.... of course, he could take some time away from
his psychotic posting, hunting thru our web sites, and trying to hack
into our blog, and re-read my posts about that particular boat.... or
even the whole series of boat-shopping posts.... he might learn
something.


Frank Boettcher wrote:
With the exception of the occasional lapses into Katytype, you have
hit the nail on the head.

All my sons are good sailors. Yacht club, one design trained. Each
of them have gone through periods where other interests (not go fast
stuff necesarily) were more important than sailing. As adults, each
of them is showing signs they may be coming back.


That's because once you've tried it, there is absolutely nothing half
as much worth doing as simply fooling around in boats. It's a sense of
real accomplishment and can be a young person's first taste of true
independence, to skipper their own boat and be acknowledged by the
world outside their family as a good sailor.

The problem may be lack of time... sailing is generally a time-
intensive sport, but a lot of modern approaches are reducing that
considerably. One is the type of club that owns & maintains it's club-
owned fleet.... you join, you sail when you can, you participate in
maintenance or pay a fee (which need not be a lot)... and of course
all the club social activities too. Unfortunately there aren't clubs
like this everywhere.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King