I am sailing an awesome SB20. Great boat, fancy regattas. I have friends on all kinds of Melges. Big money, lot of nice drinks and cool marinas. Ok, fair enough.
Then I go to Cervia, Northern Adriatic Sea. Where my sailing club is, the one I have gone to since I was 14, the sailing club where Simone Bianchetti started it all. And in a cold January Sunday, after a nice 35 kts and big swell overnight, I see these two guys preparing their Hobie 16, push it through the beach, put in the water, and just set off! I was there with my four-year-old kid, and I looked at him, his eyes staring at the Hobie. Simplicity, passion, no money, no sponsors, no drinks, no nicely embroidered polo shirts, no media, no nothing. Just two teens, good friends, sailing in the middle of nowhere for a few hours, getting wet and cold. Just for the sake of it. Well, who cares about all the rest? This is sailing. – Anarchist Silvio (and Jacopo).
http://sailinganarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/the-middle-of-nowhere1.j
Image not found. I'm that guy at my beach. It's all I've ever known. I went to strictly sail Chicago this year and I felt out of place. Here I sail a 32 year old cat in the worst of the worst and and I'm surrounded by millions worth of boats and not to mention all the carbon fiber!
Edited by mryella on Feb 09, 2013 - 12:17 PM.
Could someone just download the photo and paste it here?
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Folks,
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http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/02/04/this-is-sailing/
It's just a duplicate rehash of the OP anyway.
Kevin219 wrote: I'm that guy at my beach. It's all I've ever known. I went to strictly sail Chicago this year and I felt out of place. Here I sail a 32 year old cat in the worst of the worst and and I'm surrounded by millions worth of boats and not to mention all the carbon fiber!
Kevin, you should go a little farther north to Wilmette and Glencoe beaches and you will fill being in right place. 😛
i love it when you sail past a big yacht and look up and see everyone looking at you with a big grin! 😀
that's the beauty of the yachting life...everyone has that big grin.
Hey Bill.. Its the Hotties and the Keg-o-rator that makes them smile. They can see more of the Hootties from that angle.. They might be laughing a bit?? Happy New Year Pal !!
Kevin, you should go a little farther north to Wilmette and Glencoe beaches and you will fill being in right place.
I've got the wilmette invite several times now. It's a real operation to get the boat out of the water and what not. I plan on making 2 trips this year, one to lake monroe before the season starts and one to muskegon in august for the big cat race. You and the wilmette sailors should ship out for that race. See what I did there?
CRAM puts on the event.
Edited by Kevin219 on Feb 11, 2013 - 12:02 PM.
sailboat always wins the cool contest...sailing is like playing a musical instrument, motorboats are geared for the "guitar hero" set...