[quote=nacra55]I sail almost exclusively with my wife. I stated sailing when I was about 8 and moved to cats about 20 years ago, I’m 48 now. Not long after that we started sailing and racing together. She had no sailing experience. We sailed Hobie 16 for several years, then a Nacra5.5 SL and for the past three years a Nacra F18. I am the helmsman, she crews. If she were at the helm, we would be all over the place. In all those years with her on the boat, we only flipped once on a H16 in big wind and waves, timed a tack wrong and hit a wave as the boat came head to wind, had too much weight aft and rolled over backwards.
I do sail with others both on our boat and others boats and have raced with others but it’s pretty rare. She too has sailed and raced with other skippers on their boats. One race on the 5.5, I took a hobie 18 owner as crew and she crewed on his boat for his skipper. We have a first place trophy for both H18 and open class on the shelf from that race. But I prefer to have her on our boat.
The best I can tell you is to hang in there and keep your cool. One of our first races together, we were blowing tacks like crazy, I blew up at her and finished the race with her sitting in the middle of the boat with her back to the mast giving me the silent treatment.
There are others on here that sail with their wives, come on Butch, tell us some stories, I know you have some good ones.[/quote]
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