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Teaching a loved one to sail
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:59:04 -0500, DSK wrote: That said, the best answer is really to let somebody else teach your wife to sail. All those words for that one gem of wisdom. One of the best things I did when we were in the process of buying a sailboat was to talk to my sister who recommended that I take a course in sailing without my husband. I did that - actually I took 3 courses. One in a Rainbow 23 foot with no engine, one in a Newport 30 (I think), and the third one was a weekend with my husband on a Morgan 45. In the first (beginner) course, they had a short class work session, and then we went out in the boats and we each took a turn steering and sail handling until everyone had mastered each of the skills that were presented in each lesson. You could do this in 4 sessions - morning and afternoon Sat and Sunday, but I picked to do it in the morning of 4 successive weekends so I could process the information between each lesson. BTW I was already completely comfortable in the water, as in swimming and I can canoe and row. My biggest problem was learning to reverse think when I was using a tiller. I still can't do that, and if I try, I then can't use a wheel either for awhile. There are some skills that just aren't worth it to me to learn and that is one of them. Another one is a racing flip turn and also any kind of diving (as in diving off a diving board - I love SCUBA and snorkeling, but I just am not coordinated enough to reliably go into the water head first when I start out standing up on my feet) |
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