learn how to sail a boat

I have been sailing several times, and I want to learn to sail a boat. This is a step in my long term goal of sailing around the world.

my latest sailboat which is a tartan my other is a t27

If I had somewhere to sail it…=/
...and a boat.
...I have a friend that does though, so I’ll learn from her.
>.>

... now all I have to do is (re-)learn how to sail the thing.

.. Took over from skydiving as my activity, and replaced it nicely as I was broke, and it didn’t relly cost anythin :)

Unless you live on an island…or unless what happened in Waterworld happens and Kevin Costner isn’t there to help…

I’ve never known such feelings of freedom as sailing a small dingy (a pico to be precise) up and dow the estuary and along part of the coastline, while feeling confident in my sailing abilities. I’m so glad my great uncle set it so I could learn when I first came over to england. since then I’ve been doing it under my own organisation every summer, wishes there was soemwhere good to sail near her it’s something I love and don’t get to do enough of.
Even if you only get the chance once, take it.

I learned to sail last summer. The year before a friend invited me to sail on his boat. I thought it was pretty cool then in the spring I decided to jump in with both feet and bought a boat on e-Bay… A 26 footer. This summer the family and I spent every weekend on the boat learning and having fun. It has been well worth the money spent.

i love the ocean and thankfully i don’t suffer from sea sickness at all. ever since reading ‘earthsea’ i’ve had this urge to learn how to sail a small boat… it would just be such a handy talent to have, even though i might not use it that much.

this is what happened two years ago when me my father (the “Captain”) and my girlfriend where sailing our beautiful lake at our summer house on the masurian lakeside. The boat was a 5m long sailing boat and I was just a passenger with absolutely no clue about sailing. The wind did not come from one constant direction but was changing frequently.

We where in the process to do one of the last turns before heading home when the sail got stuck during the turn. We were easy prey for the wind and the boat was floating on the side in seconds and after another 3 seconds the bottom was up with no chance to get the boat up again and we were swimming in the cold lake. The masurian lakes are absolutely lonely places and so there was no helping hand within a mile.

We took the decision to swim to the shore which took us 45min of hard swimming. That was a fearsome situation with my father having a weak heart and my girlfriend being a smoker and not really prepared for long time swimming. When we finally reached the shore I decided that I want to learn how to sail a boat soonest…