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Here are my rules:



1. If you haven't run aground, you aren't a sailor.

3. If you haven't fixed a marine transmission, you aren't a sailor.

4. If you haven't sailed in fog, you aren't a sailor.

5. If you haven't used a rolling hitch either on an anchor chain or overwrapped jibsheet, you aren't a sailor.

6. If you haven't gone to the second reef in 35 knot winds, you aren't a sailor.

>> your 6: If you don't like the taste of Rum...You don't sail.

Real sailors drink whatever is offered, especially if it has to be lowered on a line from a passing ship.

7. If you don't know how to heave-to.

You ARE a sailor if:

1. People you sail with automatically think of you as "skipper."

>>> 2. You watch the NOAA Website and plan your appointments around the High Pressure System pushing out that nasty low

--and your urgent desire is to be in your boat right where the gradient is steepest.

>>> 3. You like to see your rail wet.

--uh-uh, f'n buried.

>>>> 4. Your golf clubs are dusty.

Golf club??!*? What's a golf club? Something you use to kill a boarded fish?

>>>> 5. You stink of Rum.

Let's distinguish here between sailors and sailboat bums.


>>>> 6. You are leaving as soon as possible to sail somewhere in the world.

Are your friends sorry to see you go?

>>>>7. You smell of salt water at Sunday Dinner.

Sunday Dinner smells like salt water.


>>> 8. Your slip neighbor says..."I thought you left the marina because I have not seen your boat in a while.".

Your slip neighbor is afraid of you.


9. You force your kid to watch a movie on Cape Horn

>>>> 10. If you can't find someone to sail...You just go out on your own.

Don't forget your jacklines and harness.