Andy You may have hit on something ... Skiing is easy to take up as a young person. You and a bunch of friends jump in a car and drive top local ski area and then everything is rented. Sailing you have to know someone and get an invitation. Both area expensive - especially when your kids get involved in racing ....
________________________________ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Burton Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 11:25 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Getting young people into sailing? I started skiing when I was 32. I always wanted to ski. What attracted me to the sport was the images--in popular magazines, newspapers, and videos--of experts gliding down hills in deep powder. that and friends talking about how much fun they'd had during winter weekends.Perhaps in addition to talking it up, sailing needs more positive, romantic images featured in mass media. I said that people who sail are smart, Danny. I never said they weren't emotional. And owning a sailboat is definitely an emotional thing! Andy C&C 40 Peregrine On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:48 AM, djhaug...@juno.com <djhaug...@juno.com> wrote: I didn't really start sailing until 2008 in my, ehhh hem, early 40s. However, I was taken sailing a total of about 4 times during the course of my life. I grew up on power boats on long island sound. We would go fishing and camping on the islands off of Norwalk CT, lots of water skiing and kneeboarding and rafting up hand floating for days, heading over to northport LI for drinks or dinner or trying to chat up the big haired long island girls of the 80s. But, I always would stop and watch the sailboats go by. Always fascinated by them! ...and I always knew, if a sailboat has enough water, there's plenty of water there for my runabouts and speed boats. Then the the 89-90 recession hit and I ended up in college in Bristol, RI. Every day I would drive home, past the Lobster pot and I would come up on that "L" curve and see that same sailboat, on its mooring, floating so serenely. I knew then that "someday" I would have a sailboat. I would drag friends, date, nieces, nephews, anyone I could commandeer to boat shows with me and climb around on the new boats dreaming of "the day" that would actually have one. Of course, then my dream was to get one and live on it and never look back. That hasn't worked out quite yet. Then, "someday" came when, a buddy gave me a 1979 O'Day 22! and so it began! that free boat cost me about $8K to get her in great shape. I sold it for $4700 LOL that was a good investment! what was that someone said about not too many dummies...? LOL And now, here I am annoying you guys about my 1973 Viking 33! aren't you the lucky ones??!! ain't life grand!? Danny _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com -- Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Ave Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ phone +401 965 5260
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