Does Anyone Sail?

[marcopolo324]

Well I still sail an opti and i've been sailing for 4 years. I race in state reggatas and I wan to know if any tipiters sail?

[Viktorkrum77]

Tried it once, and we fell over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was, what do you call it, ugh the thing where your sail and like surf, I can't think of the name right now! #-o

[Pete_the_Viscous]

I've only done it once in a friend's boat. It was both easier* and harder** than I expected, all at once. It was fun, though. I'd do it again, given the chance, but I'm probably more of a rowing person.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*more intuitive than I first expected,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**more activities per unit time than I expected, also.

[hiimben]

Tried it once, and we fell over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was, what do you call it, ugh the thing where your sail and like surf, I can't think of the name right now! #-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think you may mean windsurfing but I dunno :? I don't sail much but we used to have a catamaran that we went on a few times :)

[marcopolo324]

windsurfing doesn't really count i mean in a boat with a sail

[Make7upu101]

I used to sail sunfishes at camp. I also sailed on a pulling boat for 2 weeks and learned a bunch on that. I've forgotten most of it though.

[assassin_696]

I sail a lot and have been for about 11 years now. At least twice a year we go down to the coast and sail every day down there. We have a Topper, Laser and a Mirror, and i'll sail in friends Pico's as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's great fun, I absolutely love it. When there's a good wind and you're zipping across the bay with the spray coming over, leaning right out and just on the edge, it's unbelievably exhiliariting. Or the times when there isn't much wind but plenty of sun and it's just nice to be chilled out on the water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've sailed in bigger boats as well, working boats and 30+ft yachts but i've never had as much fun just messing around in dinghies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've completed RYA stages 1,2,3 and Blue, Red and White and i'm hoping to become instructor qualified at some point in the next few years.

[marcopolo324]

lol assasin thats cool just im alot younger than you and I hope to sail lasers soon :) yes hiking out on any boat is REALLY fun. Feel like ur gonna fall off and capsizing is fun sometimes... I sail every weekend and I'm in green fleet started racing this year and for my first reggata got 31 place out of 58 pretty good fro first in green fleet lol

[Faux]

I'm gonna try sailing once I get a Sony Vaio.