New to sailing & I jumped in head first.

sailingnyc · #1 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

Ahoy!

Well after 5? years of wanting to learn to sail I finally took the plunge earlier this summer after seeing the ASA 101 course almost half off ($390) out of the North Cove in Manhattan.

Long story short, I fell in love and bought an O'day 25 last month and am totally hooked. I've already learned a lot here and wanted to introduce myself to the forums before the barrage of questions start to fly.

Cheers!

smackdaddy · #2 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

Sweet! Welcome to SN dude. And, more importantly, welcome to sailing!

sailingnyc · #3 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

Thanks! I've seen a quite a few of your posts in my lurking and you've cracked me up few times. Glad to be aboard.

smackdaddy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

A "few" times? What the hell? I'm consistently hilarious.

knothead · #5 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

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Originally Posted by sailingnyc

Ahoy!

Well after 5? years of wanting to learn to sail I finally took the plunge earlier this summer after seeing the ASA 101 course almost half off ($390) out of the North Cove in Manhattan.

Long story short, I fell in love and bought an O'day 25 last month and am totally hooked. I've already learned a lot already here and wanted to introduce myself to the forums before the barrage of questions start to fly.

Cheers!

Welcome and congratulations.
Let the questions fly. Remember, the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask.
I would point out

that there are a lot of very knowledgeable people on this site. Sailingdog especially is a very smart guy and with very few exceptions is very diligent about doing research about that which he speaks.
Smackdaddy is a veritable fount of information though he often speaks from his heart and Mainesail is definitely the go to guy with questions about silicone, anchors or crimp connections. (don't bring up 5200 though

)

sailingnyc · #6 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

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Originally Posted by smackdaddy

A "few" times? What the hell? I'm consistently hilarious.

lol. Well that now makes it a handful of times

sailingnyc · #7 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

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Originally Posted by knothead

Welcome and congratulations.
Let the questions fly. Remember, the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask.

Thank you, I will be sure to test your theory.

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Originally Posted by knothead

I would point out

that there are a lot of very knowledgeable people on this site. Sailingdog especially is a very smart guy and with very few exceptions is very diligent about doing research about that which he speaks.

Not sure my questions will warrant research, but I'm going to aspire to it.

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Originally Posted by knothead

Smackdaddy is a veritable fount of information though he often speaks from his heart and Mainesail is definitely the go to guy with questions about silicone, anchors or crimp connections. (don't bring up 5200 though

)

Ha! I going to have to turn up the story about 5200 before I run into him or else I will have to ask.

night0wl · #8 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

Kinda like what we did...replace your boat with a Beneteau 343. We're still learning 2 years later...the toe rail is a bit more dinged than it needs to be. But we have fun

deniseO30 · #9 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

Oday 25? Nice boat! Welcome aboard SN

sailingnyc · #10 (**permalink**) 08-04-2010

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Oday 25? Nice boat! Welcome aboard SN

Yeah? I'm still a bit insecure about the purchase (shhh don't tell Dove). I loved her from the start but I didn't know anything! I didn't get a survey or anything other than word of mouth, but I couldn't be happier!