Sailing is full throttle like on a small catamaran or a laser. Being railbait is ok but I like small sailboats. Kiteboarding has basically turned into hand gliding with a board at the pro level. At the pro level in sailing crews race throughout the most treacherous waters on earth.
"Sailing" Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see Believe me It's not far to never-never land, no reason to pretend And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see Believe me Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be Just a dream and the wind to carry me And soon I will be free Fantasy, it gets the best of me When I'm sailing All caught up in the reverie, every word is a symphony Won't you believe me? Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be Just a dream and the wind to carry me And soon I will be free Well it's not far back to sanity, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find serenity Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see Believe me Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be Just a dream and the wind to carry me And soon I will be free
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike The bosun brained with a marlinspike And cookey's throat was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, all good dead men Like break o'day in a boozing ken Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. and this is what happens on a LONG cruise
there is no throttle on a sail boat blow boats are for sea hippies and the ultra rich. 1. lasers are for little yacht club kids. if you are above 12 yrs old on a laser you are equivalent to a Cub Scout master and closet pedo. 2. all sailboats smell like ****, mold and dirty socks. you can have that teak or diesel smell to but they all stink.
3. all sailboats run aground. then the dumbass captain will complain that he's gonna bend a shaft if he gets pulled off wrong.
Rag baggers. I worked on a fuel dock for 7 years and I can count the times I got a tip from a blow boater on both hands. They would fuel up once a year and complain about the $50 the had to shell out. Meanwhile down the dock there would be a 55' Sportfisher taking on $2500 in diesel and the captain not batting an eye as he throws me a $20.
Yup--us sailors hold on to those dollar bills tightly until the eagle screams!! The sailors are now rich. The guys with the Sports Fisherman are now selling pencils on the corners....
You're right. Things have certainly changed since I was on the docks (2000-2009). Fall of '08 it was like someone flipped a switch. You could tell who had real wealth because they continued to spend money on fuel, detailing, and maintenance. I saw several expensive 40'+ sail and powerboats get abandoned, repoed, set on fire, set adrift, you name it. One guy took his sailboat 4 miles offshore, killed himself and failed at making it look like an accident. That's when I finally went off to college haha.
Sailboaters have the worst reputation around marinas. I was once told by the manager of the marina where I was keeping my boat that the sailboater's motto is "The wind is free and so should everything else be." Guy hated them. They'd come in and buy $20 worth of diesel, expect to fill their water tanks for free, and dump 5 trash bags of accumulated garbage in his dumpster.
Up here it is the opposite--the "stink potters" have the bad reputation. Coast Guard is always arresting them for DUI, they are noisy, obnoxious, and litterbugs. Not far from jet skiers....now THERE is a pleasant lot!!
HH- You're on OBX right? IIRC years ago there was an idiot at AB that tried to sink his sportfisherman of Shackelford, claim it was stolen, and pocket the ins money. Dipshiit didn't sink it deep enough and the antenna were sticking out of the water at low tide.
