"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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My recent employer, as a going away gift (bribe?), gave me a gift
certificate for some sailing time at South Coast Sailing Adventures out
of Kemah, TX. I have decided to apply it to sailing lessons, beginning
with ASA 101 through basic coastal cruising, and bareboat charting. I
figure this will give me an opportunity to find out if I am still
capable of sailing and enjoying it as much as 25 years ago. Also, I
will be staying aboard rather than spending the nights at a motel during
class periods. ($50.00 a night).

First up is a two day session beginning next Thursday. Hopefully I will
meet some folks in the area who need (or at least will settle for) some
inexperienced crew help.

Any suggestions or helpful advice will be greatly appreciated.

jlrogers±³©
"Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall
soon have neither." Benjamin Franklin



Sounds like a great experience in the offing... I think you'll enjoy the
class, and my bet is that it'll reenforce your perceptions about your
previous experiences. I'm not sure what the conditions are like in Kemah,
but one thing to be mindful of is the proper clothing and preparation
w.r.t. avoiding being seasick. Out here, it doesn't take much for the
level of anxiety some students have during a class, coupled with the
wrong kind of clothing (e.g., too much or too little) and/or too much or
too little food in the belly, to cause a problem.


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Good advice. In four years at sea on a destroyer, and four or five years
of sailing, in all kinds of weather, including a couple of typhoons, I was
seasick only once and that was on a beautiful day on a flat, glassy sea.
It was on the USS Boyd DD544, in the western Pacific. We were chasing a
carrier at 34 knots and the ship and her deck plates were vibrating so bad
it made me (and most others aboard) as sick as a sea scout on his maiden
voyage.


It's interesting that sometimes fairly nasty conditions yield no problem,
when the benign stuff causes problems. I'm usually more prone as the
conditions deteriorate, but I usually recover pretty quickly.

I had the opposite situation happen while sailing out of Santa Cruz several
years ago. It was a beautiful and calm day with light air and lazy,
no-dramatic swells. You could see this from shore. We were on a 45' sloop.
Yet, I started to feel quesy on the foredeck. Moved back to the cockpit and
felt better, but if I would have stayed forward....

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