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spiderg
Groupie Joined: 20 Jul 05 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 54 |
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Topic: First solo sail Posted: 08 May 06 at 4:15pm |
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Hi Guys and Girls I've been doing a good talking game since buying a wee dinghy last July/August but my nerves kept failing me to take it out in the water, apart from the fact I'd never sailed before. Now at almost 50yrs I've done it, I just got my level 1 RYA certificate and I spent yesterday cruising around the loch at Lochwinnoch. It was fantastic. What a way to have fun. I have to say, I wish I'd done this years ago. Can you guys remember your first solo sail?
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timnoyce
Really should get out more Joined: 05 Aug 04 Location: Hampshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 4:27pm | |
erm... I think that i was 4 or 5 when i had my first sail. I have to admit that my memory is a little hazy! I remember capsizing an optimist and then not being able to right it again because it turtled!
Another memory of the event was that in classic young boy fashion, i had fallen off my bike numerous times in the week leading up to the event so each day I had to be bandaged up and helped into my wetsuit as the cut was so gammy! (As a word of warning to those of you with kids, wait until the wound is better! I still have the scar 15 or so years on!) |
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Isis
Really should get out more Joined: 01 Sep 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2753 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 4:54pm | |
Im trying to picture a mini version of yourself Noycey, but small enough not to be able to right an oppy. Oh lord.
Done that too... Got removed from my bike by a ford escort a few days before a week long regatta... Still got a bit of a scar... Same regatta the year before I fell out a tree and raced all strapped up with a handfull of cracked ribs... Happy days To answet the original question I have no idea... My earliest sailing memory is sitting in my grandads enterpise but ive been sailing pretty much all my life and cant recall my first time out alone... |
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timnoyce
Really should get out more Joined: 05 Aug 04 Location: Hampshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 5:25pm | |
I'm gonna put myself in the firing line here and get my parents to scan and send a picture of me at said age! |
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Ellie
Posting king Joined: 09 Mar 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 198 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 5:26pm | |
i've only been sailing 6 years and about my 2nd time out in my little mirror i went for a club race and and put a hole in a brand new merlin, fresh out of winders workshop! ouch...that scared me. didn't speak to the guy for about 2 years! we are all mates now tho so meh. anyhoo enjoy your boat mate, its a quality sport |
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Prince Buster
Really should get out more Joined: 15 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1146 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 7:20pm | |
my first sail on my own was on my brother's laser when i was 6. Admittedly it was only a F1
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international moth - "what what?"
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Medway Maniac
Really should get out more Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 8:41pm | |
My first sail was in a Jacksnipe (fantastic boat - think Laser 3000 but longer). I was all set up: mast in forward s/h position, trapeze harness, long tiller extension, but the bit I remember most was lying in the bottom of the boat running inshore along the river bank and being aware of the (feathery) birds on the shore. I was (like) communing with nature (man). Took me by surprise - no jabbering self or crew to distract me. Soon got bored on my own though and always prefer to sail two-up nowadays - partly for sociability, partly out of idleness (sharing the workload). But must get out alone again and do some more communing, now I think of it... |
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Strawberry
Really should get out more Joined: 21 Jun 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1337 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 06 at 8:50pm | |
Going solo makes you blind...
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Black no sugar
Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 May 06 at 3:47pm | |
Then he added "I can't even see the point...!"
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