[captainmario]

Hello to all,

Sailing was allways one of my dreams but due to a number of circumstances I never had the chance to learn how to sail. Now, I intend to start learning to sail.

The type of boats that I want to have someday are small cruisers that permit me to make some Ocean trips.

I will soon start to have sailing classes in a Elan 295 cruiser to learn the basics. After that I intend to get more sailing experience maybe by renting sometimes a small cruiser at the weekends where I can train my skills. This way it should much cheaper than owning and mantain a boat, right.

I tought that it would very interesting to have some advices from experienced sailors about learning how to sail. Also I think it would be excelent for newcomers like me to know how other people has learned how to sail as it can give ideas for our future learning plans.

Thanks to all.

Cheers,
Mário