My Answers

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:46:23 -0600, Frank Boettcher
wrote:

This is to indulge my curiosity more than anything else. For sailors
with at least 30 years experience, or more appropriately for sailors
who started at a relatively young age and continued to sail as they
aged. Feel free to elaborate on your answers with comments that
provide additional explanation or information.


1. Did you sail more in the first five years or in the last five
years?

35 years total, more in the first five years by a factor of 10.


2. If the answer to number 1. is the last five years, were you retired
during that time?

NA


3. Have you owned multiple boats and has each one been larger and more
expensive than the one before it?

Yes, three boats over that time each bigger and better


4. As you moved up in boat size did that also correspond with moving
up professionally with more stress, responsibility and time
constraints?

Yes or I could not have been able to afford the progression.


5. If the answer to 4. is yes did you sail less with each new boat
after the intial purchase year?

Yes Sailed less overall as the boats got larger.


6. Did you raise kids and during the time that they had conflicting
interests and activities, did that contribute to less sailing.

Yes, although they sailed with me, and each went through a club
school, they had other interests that diverted attention away from the
sailing.


7. Did a high percentage of your closest sailing friends and
acquaintences at the start of your sailing carreer at some point move
from sail to power or off the water altogether?

The saddest yes of all. My closest three sailing buddies, two of whom
were primarily responsible for getting me involved as a teenager/young
adult moved to power in their forties.


8. Even when you owned boats did you do bareboat charters on a regular
basis.

Not so regular, three charters in 35 years.


9. Did you race (either your own boat or crewed on others) when you
were young and do you still race.

Yes and Yes. Raced Hobies when very young, switched to GORC crewing
in the late seventies through eighties, and still do some club race
crewing. Did two series 04-05 seasons crewing on a friends Bendytoy
311 took second in class both seasons