[kokopelli9]

Sailing is a trip forward, just as life is...we learn lessons of our mistakes to carry with us, but the journey is not in reverse. There is never a time that I go out sailing that I don''t learn something about myself and/or the world I live in.

Seems to me that you have hit it on the head that it is about speed with the younger crowd...I rarely see young faces in the cruising crowd, but I do with the racing community.

But isn''t this true of life in general... rarely are we ready or know how at young ages to pay attention to the lessons that life has to teach us...rarely do we even know that to slow down and take in the smallest of life''s lessons is to have the biggest gifts.

I think we can only offer the passion of sailing to our youth and then hope that they grab it earlier than later...however, later is better than never.