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dasreboot
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Initially Posted - 06/23/2015 :  05:34:09  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
found at bacon's sails in annapolis
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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shnool
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Response Posted - 06/30/2015 :  17:00:07  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
Ok, that certainly explains a PORTION of the divorce rate.
C&C 32 Smith Mountain Lake Virginia
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hewebb
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Response Posted - 07/01/2015 :  03:20:56  Show Profile
Guess The Admiral still loves me a little-she does go with me once and a while.
1988 WK/SR w/inboard diesel Joe Pool Lake
Hobie 18 Lake Worth



Life is not a dress rehearsal. You will not get another chance.
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 07/26/2015 :  10:57:11  Show Profile
That is one of the reasons I no longer have a boat, my wife just would not go anymore.
Frank Hopper
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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 07/27/2015 :  08:24:58  Show Profile
I don't agree. Just because she goes, doesn't mean she'll be a joy during the cruise. Who wants to put up with a scared wife the whole time telling you to "slow down!" (Not that my wife gets scared)

Love to me is my wife letting me go out on my own, or with "the boys". Especially every month for race days, while she stays at home and watches the kids who ARE scared of heeling.
1989 C-25 TR/WK #5894
Miss Behavin'
Sittin' in LCYC on Canyon Lake, Texas
Edited by - NautiC25 on 07/27/2015 08:27:26
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/28/2015 :  03:52:16  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
"please turn on the motor!"
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 07/29/2015 :  07:48:20  Show Profile
I guess I'm really lucky. The biggest nag I hear is "Please turn OFF the motor!" She loves sailing, and always comes along with me.

The only exception is if I'm heading down to the Cheasapeake for a few days. She doesn't like all the motoring to get through the C&D Canal, so I'll do that myself and she'll meet me down there. (That's nice because it gives us a car in the area for re-provisioning.)

If we need to get somewhere and don't have wind, the drone of the motor can be a pain. The wireless remote for the autopilot was a great purchase, because we can go forward and sit on the bow, and don't even hear the motor up there.
Rick S., Swarthmore, PA
PO of Take Five, 1998 Catalina 250WK #348 (relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor)
New owner of 2001 Catalina 34MkII #1535 Breakin' Away (at Rock Hall Landing Marina)
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/29/2015 :  08:09:30  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
I agree. nothing more boring than motoring. at least I have an autopilot, and can just chill.
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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islander
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Response Posted - 07/30/2015 :  13:34:10  Show Profile
There is a compromise, You want to sail and she would prefer to sit and read a book. I present "DOCK SAILING!"
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
Sailing out of Glen Cove,L.I Sound


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Kper
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Response Posted - 07/30/2015 :  19:39:26  Show Profile
I feel fortunate... I enjoy sailing but she's the reason we have a boat.
Kyle
'86 SR/SK/Dinette #5284 "Anodyne"
In the barn where we found her...
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GaryB
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Response Posted - 07/31/2015 :  17:21:16  Show Profile
My wife and I went boat shopping on our honeymoon. Checked the DFW area lakes, Lake Travis, and Canyon Lake (I was there yesterday and man was it hot). Never found what I was looking for but it was fun looking.

Finally found the boat a couple of months later at Clear Lake on Galveston Bay.

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GaryB
Andiamo
'89 SR/WK #5862
Kemah,TX
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 07/31/2015 :  20:00:47  Show Profile
My late wife learned on the Sunfish we bought--sorta like her learning to drive in our Fiat 850 Spider (.85 liter, stick shift)--it was as down to the basics as it gets. Two boats later was our C-25, our first ballasted keelboat, and the first that virtually could not be capsized. By then, she was a fan of shutting off the motor, and grew restless when the boat was upright (because that meant we weren't really going).

I'm a big proponent of anybody, guy or girl, husband or wife, starting on a board-boat that (1) reacts instantly to every input--tiller, sheet, and weight distribution, (2) can capsize, but it's no big deal unless somebody is afraid of the water, and (3) lets them experience the joy of using the wind. After that, they're hooked! Until that, it's common that they can't deal, on an instinctual level, with a boat "tipping" when they don't really know how it all works--sorta like the way I hate earthquakes. (I understand wind blasting, waves crashing, tides rising,... But the ground is supposed to stay still!)

After the board boat experience and graduating to other sailboats, an ASA course (or whatever) is useful for big-boat mechanics, safety, and other details... But the emotional connection is best established on a Sunfish, Laser, or similar. I go back to them at every opportunity!
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
Edited by - Stinkpotter on 07/31/2015 20:04:20
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 07/31/2015 :  22:12:29  Show Profile
Same for us. We still own our Phantom, and are heading up to the lake tomorrow for a week of dinghy sailing (and waterskiing).
Rick S., Swarthmore, PA
PO of Take Five, 1998 Catalina 250WK #348 (relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor)
New owner of 2001 Catalina 34MkII #1535 Breakin' Away (at Rock Hall Landing Marina)
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 08/01/2015 :  09:58:55  Show Profile
How do you waterski behind a dinghy????? LOL
Derek Crawford
Chief Measurer C25-250 2008
Previous owner of "This Side UP"
1981 C-25 TR/FK #2262 Used to have an '89 C22 #9483, "Downsized"
San Antonio, Texas
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cudamank
1st Mate

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Response Posted - 08/03/2015 :  17:53:04  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Derek Crawford

How do you waterski behind a dinghy????? LOL


Have the Mrs row faster.
1982 Catalina 25 SR FK
"Jenny"
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/03/2015 :  19:28:24  Show Profile
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Originally posted by Derek Crawford

How do you waterski behind a dinghy????? LOL
Hydrofoils and a gennaker.
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
Edited by - Stinkpotter on 08/03/2015 19:29:22
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Jan Briede
Navigator

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162 Posts
Response Posted - 08/27/2015 :  06:01:17  Show Profile
It is absolutely wonderful to have a wife who enjoys sailing almost as much as you do. Although during our last sail (this past Saturday evening) she got banged up a little by a large wave and bruised a rib (maybe even broken it). I wrote about our adventure in my latest blog entry. Still we'll be going out again this weekend.
Jan
Jan Briede
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1979 TR #1242 FK
L-Dinette
Yorktown, VA
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