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It is what it is...
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Elliott Bay Marina, N-106
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No formal - bought it for my birthday...then worked on upgrading / learning the systems, upgraded all the safety items, then went out and trial and error...most of what I learned was from books and the forums and the school of hard knocks..
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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It's cool to see all the people that just bought a boat and went for it. My friend and I recently bought a boat and were planning on just going for it also. Lessons around here are a bit too expensive for us. It's good to know that it is possible to do.
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04-03-2008
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bermuda
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Learned to sail here a couple years ago:
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04-03-2008
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Señor Member
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Narragansett Bay
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ste27 - my wife and I sailed in Bermuda too, on our honeymoon in 1973 (I married at a VERY young age (G) . . . only off the screen to the right a bit more, from our resort on Hamilton Harbour.
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sold the Nauticat
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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I started sailing in the 50's with my parents, by my teens I was crewing on my dad's old Hinckley B40 with he and his friends on long trips and races - Marion to Hamilton was my favorite. I didn't have or need my own boat until the late 70's when I bought a Columbia 28.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TrueBlue
ste27 - my wife and I sailed in Bermuda too, on our honeymoon in 1973 (I married at a VERY young age (G) . . . only off the screen to the right a bit more, from our resort on Hamilton Harbour.
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Resort ON the harbour in 73? Where? Nice place for a honeymoon! |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
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Well, I first learned at summer camp about 30 years ago. Then spent time racing and sailing as a teenager. Sailed as a member of the OPBYC for many years. Decided I wanted to buy a boat about six years ago, and bought one two years ago... Took a sailing course to get ASA certified in case I wanted to charter two years ago.  Mostly, self-taught.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity (slightly edited)
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Señor Member
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ste27
Resort ON the harbour in 73? Where? Nice place for a honeymoon!
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Hamilton Princess - we decided to have a great honeymoon, in lieu of a large wedding ceremony. After a breakfast reception in Newport, we spent a week in Bermuda - returned for our 30th in '03.
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True Blue . . .
sold the Nauticat
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TrueBlue
Hamilton Princess - we decided to have a great honeymoon, in lieu of a large wedding ceremony. After a breakfast reception in Newport, we spent a week in Bermuda - returned for our 30th in '03.
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Sounds like it was a good plan to me
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watch for the boom.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Lots of good info...now who's head got hit with the boom and can't remember how they got started in sailing 
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