i started going on wednesday night races with my father & uncle when i was about 7 or 8. i enjoyed the sailing but really used to go for the box of cracker jacks my uncle always kept on the boat. my uncle sold the boat when i was ten and since then have only been out on other peoples boat a handful of times. last year i chartered a 54' hinckley for our 10th anniversary, got the sailing bug again and 2 months later bought our first boat.
Nearly fifty years ago as a newly minted ensign in the Navy I was stationed in Great Lakes, IL as skipper of an LMD (Large Mahogany Desk). Special Services (Recreation) had an active sailing program with a dozen Interlake 18' and a old Alden Malabar 48' ketch. Over the two summers I was stationed there I sailed nearly every day. When I got back to NY I was an experienced crew (and a bachelor) so I was able to gets lots of berths on big races. Been doing it ever since, though now on my own boat and cruising rather than racing.
I bought a Super Porpoise board boat 35 years ago, while on vacation in Florida, and learned by doing. The next year, I took a beginning course and cruising course at Annapolis Sailing School in St. Petersburg, Fla. I raced, cruised and moved up in size a couple of times until I retired, and bought a C&C 35 Landfall. Life is good!
Went out once with a friend in late September.
Bought a boat 3 weeks later - sailed the boat all that winter.
Annapolis Sailing School 3 day class in May, The total time on the water did not equal the time I already had.
Bought bigger / newer boat in June, sailed it 4 years with a couple BVI bareboat catamaran charters thrown in.
Bought Catamaran in May last year.
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