survival - and more

[Gryzio]

Originally Posted by HoffaLives

isn't there some kind of award or certificate when you pop yer solo cherry?

I not sure there an award.

The next step is joining the "Mile Out Club", I not sure this is done alone and may require autopilot.

It similar to the "Mile High Club" for planes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_high_club

[sab30]

i dont know if this Gui guy is mentally unstable, has no friends, or is just an *&%hole..my guess is the latter! My Dad always said the attempted belittling of others was...nevermind..you wouldnt understand. Are those the comments that you give to people on their first sail..cause I bet your first sail was 1600 miles of shore on your own battling hurricane winds....ya thought so.

[Giulietta]

Originally Posted by sab30

i dont know if this Gui guy is mentally unstable, has no friends, or is just an *&%hole..my guess is the latter! My Dad always said the attempted belittling of others was...nevermind..you wouldnt understand. Are those the comments that you give to people on their first sail..cause I bet your first sail was 1600 miles of shore on your own battling hurricane winds....ya thought so.

Actually, for you, (just for you), its Giu, or Giulietta, not Gui.

Please make sure that when you decide to offend me, you do it right. I would do it right if I was going to offend you...but I am not, because my Dad told to purely ignore what I didn't want to hear....

I don't recollect being mentally unstable, and do have a few friends, so that must place me in the *&%hole shelf...but as they say, it takes one to recognize another one.

Your Dad seemed like a smart man, unlike you, and probably being older, was also more polite than you...try it sometime...you'll enjoy it.

Having said that, and since I don't ever remember having exchanged posts with you, or reading anything worthwhile from you, please take your advise and remarks and gently insert them in your anal cavity. It should be the hole in the rear from where you poo...easy to find, use your nose.

You don't know me, and don't know what kind of relationship I have with Hoffa, and most certainly don't know how many times I have spoken with him.

So please, take your antagonizing remark, and give it to someone else, good thing now with the Christmas Holidays...maybe in your circle of friends, someone might appreciate that, ans since you're not an *&%hole, and don't seem mentally unbalanced, you probably have no friends..I am sorry for you.

I soloed at 9, in a Wooden boat, 3 miles of the Coast of Cascais, with no one to pick me up.

[sailaway21]

Hoffa,
You survived, ergo...good voyage!
While the experience is fresh in your mind, I'd recommend jotting down those things that you envisioned that could go wrong and what you'd need to be better prepared for them next time. erps wasn't joking about the efficacy of crawling forward, either. I'd probably start with thoughts on your roller furling acting up and how you'd go forward while controlling the boat at the same time. These are the types of experiences which require the prudent sailor to rethink some things that might not have seemed overly important previously. (things like, that knife does me no good in the cabin when I need it NOW)

congrats.

[teshannon]

Giu,
I'm with you on that one! Well put my friend!

[HoffaLives]

Giu is just testy cause he knows he gonna be my ho soon and he doesn't like it. whine? you'll know whine - interspersed with begging.

it did occur to me about jotting down this stuff, fortunately the experience was also vivid that i doubt i'll forget. and the headsail thing came up while i was out; i threw off the sheet a little to soon, and since it was half furled, the furling rotated and the jib came across backwards. I couldn't get it tightened up properly and i was wondering what was happening; didn't take to long to see what had happened, bear away a bit and pull it back around, tighten things up, and bring it across again. that could have been a real mess.

i wish i had the opportunity to have done it all when i was 9; nothing intimidates you then; the young have no sense of mortality and they bounce well.

[sab30]

Sorry for snapping..I didnt realize he was joking and I guess I have seen and been listening to too much "Im the almighty sailor" bs mimicing novice sailors just to prove the opposite...last guy I saw critizize someone about docking got in his boat and proceeded to just about destroy 2 other boats...

Sorry Goo I didnt realize it was in fun...i did like the part about the anal cavity..laughed my head off.

[TThomsen]

Congrat. Hoffa on your first solo.

Thinking about is Giu I also soloed at 8 or 9 but it was in a Optimist dinghy. It doesn't really qualify as first solo since there is no room for two people.

Hoffa GET A HARNESS you will feel better and safer. If required then you can use your docking lines for jacklines. They are better than nothing.

When taking risk you have to mitigate it.

Thomas

[therapy23]

Great job Hoffa!

There is a reason why there are not as many members here though.
There is a lot of distracting balderdash that takes away from the intent of the thread.
Filtering is tiring.

I have enjoyed much of your thoughts in the past.

[TwentySeven]

Congratulations, Hoffa!

I first soloed at 40some. Practically no sailing experience, didn't have around any friend with sailing epxerience (other than a distant friend I could call to his mobile). It went pretty nice. The second time, with 20kt winds **** started happening and every solution I tried turned out to be wrong decissions out of ignorance, lack of experience, and getting nervous, and made things worse. Now I laugh about the stupid mistakes I made but, I tell you, at some points I was thinking "it is not possible that I am here in the verge of sinking or capsizing just in front of Barcelona on 3-foot-wave seas while some 15 other boats around me seem to be just having fun...."

Now I think that sailing with your loved one, or with one or two friends, is fantastic, wonderful. But sailing solo is mystical.

As for the precautions, remembering that you can die is not to stress you or making you enjoy less, but to make you take the precautions, so those dangers disappear and you can actually enjoy a safe relaxed sailing not having to worry about them.