I too was a sailor. In my younger days I wanted to buy a small, one person
sail boat to putts around Lake Erie. My wife convinced me that a one person
boat would be selfish and that I should get a bigger one so she and the kids
could go to. I ended up with a 16 foot boat that took two people to rig. I
took the whole family out once. My wife informed me that she had a death
fear of sailing earlier in her life and she was sure it had passed. Well it
didn't. The sail boat sat in the garage for three years and became the
trailer when we went on camping trips. The only good thing about the whole
thing was that I sold the sailboat for $200 more than I paid for it.
So ended my sailing experience. Thank goodness I got into steam trains.
Don
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>Subject: Re: Salty's Cruise
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:09:49 EDT
>
>Very interesting Walt. There a few us that are sailors on this list.
>Twenty-five years ago plus I had a gaff rigged yawl built by Alden for the
>Bermuda races. The Cygnet was built in 1927 and she was a 49 foot beauty.
>A did a lot of costal sailing around San Diego and to Catalina. Always
>dreamed of going to Tahiti, but never put it together. Land yachting
>seemed
>to be the next best thing and my school bus conversion looked very much
>like
>the inside of a sailboat. I felt like I wanted to do those kind of things
>before I got too old too so I don't mind working for myself now either.
>Bob
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