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Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 22:15:35 No.1165963 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1165972 >>1166262 >>1166311 >>1166970 >>1168367

I wanna be a sailing man in 2018

any tips and tricks?
wrong board?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 22:23:34 No.1165967 Report

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Pro tip: sailing men sail, so sail

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 22:30:50 No.1165972 Report

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>>1165963
Well first things first anon, MERRY CHRISTMANS AND WELCOME TO THE BOARD!!!!1!!

Sailing is pretty expensive unless you hire on to someone elses boat.
Do you have lots of vacation time?
If so then find a boat that needs a crewmen and head to carribean to get your feet wet.
Eventually you can MGTOW your own way on the high seas

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 22:47:17 No.1165986 Report

Quoted By: >>1165999

>>1165972
I wanna learn inner-sea(rivers and lakes) sailing first and kinda work up to bigger ships and ultimately ocean sailing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 22:52:00 No.1165999 Report

Quoted By: >>1166048

>>1165986
>work up

Meanwhile, I started right out on the Exxon Valdez and that went pretty well, in the beginning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Dec 2017 23:24:53 No.1166048 Report

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>>1165999
heh
nice trips

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 04:58:57 No.1166262 Report

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>>1165963
Get yerself a dinghy. Look around on Craigslist for singlehanders and learn how to rig it in the offseason. Learn the basics of sailing, like points of sail and tacking. Learn how to tie some basic sailing knots like hitches and figure 8s.

Ocean sailing takes a very, very long time to get good at. My uncle was racing yachts pretty much nonstop for 25 years (working his way up from boat nigger to captain) and said he only felt good as a skipper for the last 10 years he was on the water.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 05:05:55 No.1166264 Report

Quoted By: >>1166266 >>1166458

my mom has 2 sunfish and my dad has a Hobie 16. grew up around the shit. its a lot of fun especially trapezing(sp) easy to learn but get a sunfish before a hobie lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 05:13:54 No.1166266 Report

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>>1166264
Trapeze boats are wild. My friend has an RS700 that he lets me bomb around in sometimes and it's a blast

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 07:46:21 No.1166311 Report

Quoted By: >>1166492

>>1165963
Make a freind and help him, shit gets too pricey. Enjoy someone else's boat

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 08:56:39 No.1166329 Report

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>>1166266
honestly i never have been out alone on the hobie, but this summer i think i am old enough to ask. provided i can show I know how to use it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 16:26:51 No.1166458 Report

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>>1166264
pic rrlated. yellow one was a late 70s modrl, no longer above ground. blue one still in the family tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 17:14:21 No.1166492 Report

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>>1166311
depending on where OP is in his life and what he wants out of it, I'm tempted to agree with you. Owning anything other than the smaller classics (sunfish, 420, hobie or JY-15) is basically having a part time job that you pay out the ass for. I fucking love sailing and maybe in 30 years ill have enough time and money to make buying something worthwhile worthwhile. but for the time being im happy enough renting a prerigged sunfish for 30 bucks, drifting it around a lake for a few hours and dropping it back off at the dock as is when im done with it.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 17:22:35 No.1166498 Report

Quoted By: >>1166500 >>1166869

How to sail:

1. Move to Annapolis
2. Start drinking

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Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 17:24:45 No.1166500 Report

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>>1166498
>OP in a Chesapeake log canoe for his first-ever sailing outing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 19:29:59 No.1166577 Report

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>>1166492
OP here
how to leech off of someones boat?
should i look around when learning? or when renting i sail up and say hi?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 20:08:13 No.1166595 Report

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>>1166577
It helps to join a club. I started on 14-foot dinghys and generally asked the more experienced sailors if they needed some crew for a larger keelboat

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Dec 2017 20:09:14 No.1166597 Report

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>>1166577
i've never really thought about the mechanics of it to be honest. i just have a few friends with boats that take me with them because i know enough about boating that i make their trip easier and they know i get stoked on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Dec 2017 03:18:00 No.1166869 Report

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>>1166498
I'm not even a sailor and I'm pissing myself laughing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Dec 2017 05:30:38 No.1166970 Report

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>>1165963
Get a sailboat

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 07:01:55 No.1168367 Report

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>>1165963
Start out with something like a Sunfish or Walker Bay to paddle around on a lake or small bay. Research the technical aspects like wind clock, points of sail, sail trim. Or take a class from a local sailing center.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 19:41:03 No.1168688 Report

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Hey OP. Been saving up for a multi year sailing trip for the last 3 years now, and have been doing a lot of resereach. Buying the boat end of Summer 2018. To get a feel for what it's like, poke around sailing blogs on Youtube. Join a forum like sailnet or cruisersform and poke around, but don't ask questions that you can easily research yourself.

If you're looking at keeping it coastal/caribbean, you can find a vessel in the 10k or less range that might need some TLC but will do you fine. Start looking around yachtworld.

The fastest cheapest way to get on the water is to crew on someone elses boat. There's people who travel and sail around the world by simply crewing on other's boats. Expect to pay a daily fee for food/fuel, but usually not more than that. There's also online resources to link up with sailors looking for a crew, like crewbay.

Best of luck

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 19:44:12 No.1168692 Report

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>>1168688
Also, OP, where are you located? Do you have any money saved up?

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Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 22:28:43 No.1168776 Report

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>>1166458

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Anonymous Sat 30 Dec 2017 06:36:06 No.1169007 Report

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>hung out with sister and her friend tonight
>friend's dad has a 45-foot yawl
>she invited me on their annual summer sailing trip to Maine
>said friend is cute and has fucking lusted after me since high school
>friend's dad also has dank weed

Gonna be a good summer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jan 2018 07:33:32 No.1170209 Report

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How the fuck do you douse a kite single-handed on a dinghy

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