Demise of double handed sailing in general.

Originally posted by dohertpk I'm still trying to find that special someone!

Have you tried Tinder??? 🤣

Originally posted by ian.r.mcdonald Wake up on a wet and cold horrid day. Single hander? The option to pull up the duvet and stay dry. With a double hander you are committed. And often those miserable days are the best for sailing. The move to single handers reduces overall numbers by several routes Whatever happened to the good old fashioned route of crewing for some of the experienced sailors. Lost in the Squad setup?

Edited by Paramedic - 10 Jul 20 at 9:20pm

For me it is down to crew availability. The Spice needs a fair bit of practice and experience to sail reasonably well so, while it's a great boat for blasting, it's not competitive in the handicap fleet. Especially inland where my more 'serious' racing takes place (actually with twin traps, a fairly big rig and huge kite it's completely unsuitable for our ¼ square mile lake). I have considered selling it and buying an Enterprise* but then a regular crew probably wants more to do to keep it interesting (and the reduced fun factor for blasting around in Holyhead Bay). So I have the Blaze as my main boat and the Spice for the occasional blast and open water race.

The chat up line was basically: we've both got the same boats so if you're short of crew I'll crew for you and perhaps you could crew for me sometimes. Twenty years later we're still sailing together, living together and the two boats have bred and become about twenty two boats!

Edited by patj - 16 Jul 20 at 5:54am