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Ifyou know the difference between a beam reach and a beat, can we have a thread?
I started sailing in 1970 or so. My first boat was a lanteen rig Dolphin. Like a Sunfish, but better.
I raced for 10 years or so, and my class dwindled so I started crewing.
My Mom crewed for Dad, so I would just show up on race days with my life jacket.
Soon it became "Where's Karl"?
I have trimmed jibs from Lake Charles to the Florida keys, to some bay in California.
It's a beautiful sport, but I'm not a good driver.I will though make the best of your decisions.
I started doing OC’s offshore. Not sailing but definitely a nautical exercise in the Outrigger Canoes. It’s opened up a whole new world that I can’t get enough of.
I delivered a couple of boats for rich people
One from Houston to south Carolina ,and one from the BVI to south Florida.
The first one was a freaking trip.
I delivered a couple of boats for rich people
One from Houston to south Carolina ,and one from the BVI to south Florida.
The first one was a freaking trip.
Favorite regatta... Fort Worth Boat Club circa 1995.
I had been sailing with this guy from California for a while. The club had a decent fleet of "Daysailers" and I was tricking his boat out with the latest go-fast stuff. We were starting to smoke the fleet.
FWBC regatta is coming soon, we're all excited. Skipper gets sick. He asked if my brother, who's a fucking stud skipper, would skipper his boat just because he had beef with someone there, I guess.
We show up, we're the only Day Sailer there. Great, we're going to be in the handicap class. We will be racing Lightnings mostly. They should smoke us on the lake, so we like our portsmuth numbers.
Racing starts, wind picks up, we are beating the piss out of them, and they were laughing at us on the dock pre race.
So we were handicapped pretty big, but we beat every one of them on the lake. Pussies couldn't handle wind.
We lost a spar fly, we had no tell tails left, and we delaminated about a 5 foot section between the hull and deck.
It ended up only being 2 official races. We got .75+.75.
During awards I shouted "All that shit and we only get a point and a half?"
They knew....
The Shop
To top it off. Kevin made a magical 180 whip in the wind to trailer move that I still say was 50% luck, but it for damn sure solidified the ass whooping that took place.
You guys are speaking a furen language.
But it sounds cool.
Won every race we ran with my brother at the helm in that boat.
I'm good, but he's freaking great.
I wouldn’t make a wart on a sailor’s rear, but I’ve raced with a coworker before. It was really windy, and I was ballast, riding on the top rail while the other was in the water.
I’m not sure I care to sail myself, but I’d love to build a wooden sailboat before I die. I’ve see some beautiful ones.
Fair winds and following seas to you and to all my absent friends dead or at sea.
Sails gave way to steam, steam gave way to nukes…..
Used to rent a cool 26' sloop, with a self furling genoa jib.
Used to blaze across Galveston bay, and out into the gulf.
Went on to buy a nacra 5.2 catamaran.
That thing was a blast, and fast as hell.
Would sit out in the bay in the early evenings and watch the skydivers from the nearby spaceland drop zone.
A buddy of mine, and myself stopped by there one saturday.
Made our first jumps the next day.
Went home, sold the nacra.
Switched from one rush, over to the next.
I crewed for a guy on a Nacra a few times. Definitely a speed demon.
Still pointed like a cat, but the speed made up for it.
Didn't have that curved hull like the ever popular hobie cat.
Handled great in choppy waters.
Reef the main, and ran on the jib when solo.
Two guys, with one on each sheet !!!!
Man, it would haul ass right at that balance point.
Oh, it was lightyears better than a Hobie, no doubt.
Pointed way better, and accelerated like a powerboat.
Karl & Scully practicing for the annual Regatta !
HA!
Awesome...
Been sailing my whole life. Father grew up in Chicago and sailed Lake Michigan. Moved to Az and kept it up. He started off with a Venture 22 ( McGregor), then a 25ft. Catalina, and ended with 26ft. Clipper Marine, loved that boat. My sailing experience started when I was 8 years old, I was captain of an 8ft. Sabot, "The Blue Lemmon". And raced it around the pond at the local park. From there got into the Lasers, and then into the catamarans. My last cat is a 16ft. Trak, Australian made boat. Still have it but keep it stored at our place in Mexico.
Our yatch club used to have a pretty good fleet of Venture 22s then it morphed into Catalina 22s which is what my brother currently sails.
Same here in Az. The primary vessel of any sailing club is the Catalina 22.
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