What is your sailing fantasy?

[Saf]

Mine is events! The best is Cowes Week! Love it!:)

I think most of us has got some special sailing event you wait for or dream to go to and see what is that fuss all about!

Mine was always Cowes Week, started off as dinghy sailor than worked my way to yachts I just love anyboat that can sail well and go very fast! Cowes Week this year was my fave event! I loved the sailing, people and the beer tents!

Watching the racing meeting the crew from the quick boats sailing on Maxmus, getting some intersting ideas from team bear and my best one was meeting olympic sailor I Percay! That was like a dream come true! I will work hard till the next one comes so I can buy that plane ticket which will get there on time for the party!

Oh yeah, the fireworks were cool!:cool:

What's yours?

[djwkd]

gotta be tall ships race,definately,passed in newcastle 2 times in the past 10 years.

[Saf]

some pictures of a sail boat with a broken mast, mariners cove II and Bear of Britain some of the things we managed to get pics of!

[Saf]

something is wrong with my pc! sorry guys!

[Saf]

tall ships are very intersting I've seen the old ship G. Nelson skipperd in Portsmouth think it was called victory that was cool! think she is made of steel or something!

[Hunter25]

A lemon meringue pie, an all girl basket ball team and a well maintained 100 foot schooner for the bunch of us to driftabout on.

[Toot]

A lemon meringue pie, an all girl basket ball team and a well maintained 100 foot schooner for the bunch of us to driftabout on.


What are you crazy? Only one pie??!!!!!!

[Saf]

Ha ha! Easy guys! Some very wild dreams :D :D
Very intersting!

Saf
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[Poida]

Cruising around the world with an all girl crew of nymphomaniacs. And oh yeah a lemon meringue pie would be good.

[Figgy]

Just one girl, maby two. Any more and they'd just be mad at me :) A nice fat tub for a boat, like a Morgan.The wind would always blow, small waves, and people that are friendly in every port. I'd just take my time!
And a lemon meringue pie!

[Frosty]

I would like a boat that I had absalute confidence in . A boat that could do any thing. A boat that I could just reef in and go below knowing it was all in its stride. A boat that cost me nothing and that I could sell tomorrow for a good profit to a man that was waiting with money in hand.

You cant buy boats like that.

[safewalrus]

To hell with the girls, and the boat just give the lemon merangue pie (a big one of course!):D :D

And if I must go down to the sea again please make it a long way away from numpties like some of the newcomers on this forum:mad:

G. Nelson on the Victory made of steel - muppet!!:confused:

[marshmat]

Hmm......
How about a 40-metre luxury cat, somewhere tropical. About a hundred friends, family and colleagues; a dozen assorted watercraft out back to keep everyone happy. A galley full of good Canadian food, a well stocked bar, everyone just hanging out and having fun with no classes, jobs or car payments to worry about. Waterskiing all morning, relaxing on deck all afternoon while we cruise to the next tropical paradise, watching the sunset from a quiet cove in one of the canoes, then partying all night.....
Oh.... And a lemon merangue pie.... lol

[Frosty]

To hell with the girls, :

Now theres a statement!!!! Is there something you want to tell us?.

[Doug Lord]

Sailing the 60 footer under "Sailboats" for the first time in 20knots of wind with a beautifull
blonde(for courage) and an additional technical/sailing team including Eric Sponberg, John Ilett and Rohan Veal. Wow! what a day that would be.....

[Raggi_Thor]

Sailing from Trondheim and north through the Lofoten into the midnight sun one summer. Or going south and west, passing the Faeroe Islands, Shetland and through the Caledonian canal, visiting the Isles and fill the tanks with whiskey, down the Irish sea to Spain, Portugal, maybe have a look at Dakar, water and food from Canary Islands, short stop in Cap Verde Islands, straight west to some Caribbean island, up the US east coast visiting all ports from Long Island and north, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket off season(!), maybe some inland waters through Canada (always wanted to see Montreal), Greenland and Iceland next summer, back home, go to work.

[safewalrus]

Naw Jack, just that when you get to my age (?) the merangue looks nicer? god has the awld bugger lost it? or what?

[yotphix]

Ok...if it's a sailing fantasy, then for me it's not about girls (I can and have had that as sailing reality:) How bout a 100' steel hull schooner on a never ending south pacific cruise with a small professional crew teaching poor urban kids from all over the world self respect teamwork and self reliance while showing them some of the absolutely astonishing things that the world and its oceans have to offer? It has been done and it is still being done inmany shapes and forms but I think nothing beats the magic of kids discovering the power of the wind and how to tame it!

[Frosty]

Ive already done my fantasy once but ive changed my mind and i want to have another go.
Ok --Forget the merangue pie,-- just give me a bar with loads of girls with long legs in high heels and they all think I am a millionare, even though im not but they dont believe it. Errrr the bar is open 24 hours a day and its raining outside, so I cant go home, and I can sit and dream of never having to go to sea or owning a boat again.

I dont really like merangue but potato is Ok.

[Toot]

You are an odd one, jack frost. :p

[Frosty]

Thank you Toot --one try's one best. But is that fantasy so strange?

Its 11 pm and your looking at wind increasing and weather getting worse. The waves are now serious and on your beam. The auto pilot is starting to struggle. You didnt make fast all the stuff down stairs and pots and pans are starting to clunk and clang onto the floor. You now need to go up and reef the main but you have not yet got your weather gear on and you cant leave the helm. You tie on bungy cords trying to assist the auto pilot. You consider running with the sea s but you are only 10 miles off shore and your destination is 100 miles in front of you. You are now getting 45 degree knock overs.Thats when you say to yourself " sometimes I think my wife is right --this is stupid"

Its then that I think of the bar above.

[marshmat]

And I can't blame you for that, Jack :D
In my case though it's often the opposite.... stuck in one of the bars or dance clubs near the university (unfortunately they close by three, though), wishing I had a bigger/fancier/faster boat to battle Lake Ontario with.....

[MikeJohns]

Sailing from Trondheim and north through the Lofoten into the midnight sun one summer. Or going south and west, passing the Faeroe Islands, Shetland and through the Caledonian canal, visiting the Isles and fill the tanks with whiskey, down the Irish sea to Spain, Portugal, maybe have a look at Dakar, water and food from Canary Islands, short stop in Cap Verde Islands, straight west to some Caribbean island, up the US east coast visiting all ports from Long Island and north, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket off season(!), maybe some inland waters through Canada (always wanted to see Montreal), Greenland and Iceland next summer, back home, go to work.

Thats the sort of thing.
Some friends a boat that is nice to be aboard some interesting destinations and some fair winds reliable gear.

As for girls ....we had fifteen 17 year old girls aboard for 3 days ... you can keep them, (they don't look so cute when seasick either..) and when you get out of mobile phone range they have panic attacks:)
They scream very loudly when when dolphins "buzz" them in the water (and they cry for hours afterwards)....

We were the stars of the radio scheds for a few days and I got some good natured ragging on the radio with offers of help... funny too how the fisherman hang around and bring you gifts from the catch of the day when you've bikini clad girls swinging off your halyards.

No... one good middle aged woman is equal to any number of girlies aboard a boat.

Cheers

[Raggi_Thor]

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No... one good middle aged woman is equal to any number of girlies aboard a boat..

What's middle aged?
Me and all my firends (and wifes) are getting 40 this year.
I have been mildly depressed for one year now, after I turned 39 and realised that life is pretty short, too short.

[MikeJohns]

Ragnar
Thats one major thing about life that you have to come to terms with; that it is finite. Ultimately you never know your alloted time...... be happy you have made it to 40 :) I buried a very close friend last year and she was only 46, from happy energetic pretty and healthy to death was around 3 months (from cancer).
When I was flying 25 years ago I had a parachutist fall close by on the runway apron (without his parachute open) I watched him fall for a long time before he hit the ground I learnt then,.... life is a lottery,... pack your own parachute ..........and reserve shutes dont always open.

Live for today but still plan for tommorow. Be happy.. there is nothing wrong with being half way except the sore joints and the heart and the back, and the tiredness and the pot belly etc etc.......................:)

You'll look very dignified with grey hair

[Raggi_Thor]

Thanks Mike, I try :-)

[safewalrus]

Hey Jack whats this potatoe merangue pie? now that is fantasy - or too much grog - there again with too much grog you wouldn't notice anyway!