[DA-WOODY]

OK ED
You can come out on my YACHT and Suck Beer / NO Crew Work / No Problems.
Just Maby You could bring your Radio Control and we could try to catch it.
The point is after all to be out on the water

And to the rest of the world If you did quit when did you come back?
If its in you it's in you!!

[JR*]

I SAY I'M GONNA' QUIT ALMOST EVERYDAY...I ALSO SAY I'M GONNA' QUIT SMOKING EVERYDAY...BUT AS MUCH AS BOTH DRIVE ME CRAZY, I LOVE THEM TO MUCH

[North River]

Started sailing when I was six - I think my parents packed us kids up and sent us to YC sailing school to get some peace and quite. Sailed through my teens and loved it. Went to sea for 15 years on tankers and was Master for the last 7 years or so, during that time only fooled around with sunfishes and Hobies. I quit going to sea in 1988 and didn't go near the water for 12 years as I had seen enough water to last me a lifetime or so I thought. I couldn't stay away and started sailing again in 2000 and now I'm addicted, I sail 5 days a week.

[Capt'n Hindgrinder]

I can't quit smoking and I can't quit sailing, I'm hopless. :blink:

[PNWGuy]

You can have my boat when ya pry my cold dead fingers from it.

[redboat]

Quit when I was 37. Sold the 35 footer. Tired of lining up crew, sick of PHRF, yacht clubs and obnoxious fuckwits at mark roundings.

Bought an old laser and learned how to sail again. Had a ball doing some masters regattas. Really missed sailing at night and distance racing so got an Olson 29 and do doublehanded events. No crew problems, some beautiful and scary time on the water and keepin it simple. No yacht club. Just go to dock, go for a sail and come back. Good times. Simplify.

[Ned]

hung up the cleats in 98 for like the third time. Came out of retirement on occasion. Now learning how to sail all over again on the 14.

[The Commodork]

Capt said:

I can't quit smoking and I can't quit sailing, I'm hopless. :blink:

The smoking and sailing thing isn't unforgivable, but going "HOPLESS" is unacceptable. Beer is essential!

[Oxygen Mask]

Bubba, on Sep 15 2004, 12:57 PM, said:

My real question to Ed is does he consider himself former racer?

I have run into quite a few former racers in my day. But my experience personally is that you are either a sailor or not and you are either a racer or not. You may not be active but once an addict always an addict.

Thoughts?

I think you hit the nail on the head. "Former" he may be, but this site is the evidence that he hasn't and probably can't just walk away from it and not look back.

[another 505 sailor]

My dad sold his 37 footer when he was 50. Tired of all the drama, took up golf. Has raced maybe 5 times in the last 11 years.

But he finally asked me for a ride on the 505. I think my 60 year old crew at the Worlds got him thinking.
If you're in Santa Cruz on Sunday the 26th, please monitor channel 16 :-)

[wizard]

I'M NOT A QUITTER!!
STILL SMOKE AND SAIL (cigarettes only, gave the other stuff up)!!

[Capt'n Hindgrinder]

BE THE BALL!!!!!! BASH IT!! BASH IT!!! :ph34r:

Raced RC sailboats too. Marble heads, development class, only rule was 50in overall length. Lots of fun but just as many sea lawyers.

[dmichaelis]

I sailed my whole life. I grew up racing with my Dad. In 1985 my dad was shot and became a quadrapalegic he was in the hospital for a year when he got out I took him out on our Newport 30 he wasn't strong enough to hold himself up and didn't enjoy it. He sold the boat in 1986. During that time I quit racing and after he sold the boat I quit sailing until 1991 I started crewing with some friends. I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed sailing. After about two years I bought a Catalina 22 just to cruise. Then I bought a Catalina 27 just for cruising, I was still racing on other boats. Then in 1999 I rigged a chair in the Catalina 27 for my dad and we started racing that boat. Last year my Dad got the itch for a bigger boat. So we bought the Schock 35 and we have rigged a chair in it for him. We cut out the transom and put a wheel and he calls tactics and is the backup helmsman. We are having a blast racing one design and PHRF :D

[Liquid]

Started when I was 9. I guess I could say I quite about 10 years ago and persued windsurfing full on, even moved to SF bay for the winds. Then got back into big boat racing about 3 seasons ago and and promptly quit 1/3 of the way thru this season. The time commitment was too big with a young and growing famliy being left behind most weekends. Also, going upwind at 7 knots and downwind at 9-10 knots gets boaring... Now I crew on a I 14, not boring and an entirely new learning curve.

Maybe the ED needs to go skiff sailing!

T

[greyeyes]

dmichaelis, on Sep 15 2004, 11:02 PM, said:

I sailed my whole life. I grew up racing with my Dad. In 1985 my dad was shot and became a quadrapalegic he was in the hospital for a year when he got out I took him out on our Newport 30 he wasn't strong enough to hold himself up and didn't enjoy it. He sold the boat in 1986. During that time I quit racing and after he sold the boat I quit sailing until 1991 I started crewing with some friends. I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed sailing. After about two years I bought a Catalina 22 just to cruise. Then I bought a Catalina 27 just for cruising, I was still racing on other boats. Then in 1999 I rigged a chair in the Catalina 27 for my dad and we started racing that boat. Last year my Dad got the itch for a bigger boat. So we bought the Schock 35 and we have rigged a chair in it for him. We cut out the transom and put a wheel and he calls tactics and is the backup helmsman. We are having a blast racing one design and PHRF :D

That is such a nice story, brought tears to my eyes.
Good for you, nice to hear you and your dad are still in race mode!

[Mark K]

ED, Have you ever had your own boat? Riding without being able do do your own screwups take's a lot of the fun out of it, I think.

[Phil]

One of the reasons why Mr T does sail as much,he lost his Father a couple of years ago and then sold the family Ranger.Like most of us he'll come back but in his own time,esp once his kids are a little older.

I can't see some one like Scot staying away,hey I did no offshore stuff beyween '94 and '02 and when I did the 5.5 worlds in '86 I didn't sail for a couple of years because I felt everyone else were 'idiots'.

Time heals most ills.

[Ned]

Solo, on Sep 15 2004, 08:39 PM, said:

Ned, on Sep 15 2004, 03:34 PM, said:

hung up the cleats in 98 for like the third time.  Came out of retirement on occasion. Now learning how to sail all over again on the 14.

did you get the new boat?

s.

yep. its fun.

nice not having to mess with boatyard knuckleheads too.

[Great Red Shark]

Or knucklehead crew, or knucklehead boat partners....

[Ned]

Them too.

But its really nice not being held hostage by the marina and boatyard.

[alteredst88]

Living in Maine, I get to quit sailing every October for about seven months. It sucks.

G

[7.9 sailor]

In the words of Mark Twain, "Ive quit smoking thousands of times."

There is a short period of time each year between pulling the soft water boat and rigging the hard water boat, and vice versa.....

[DA-WOODY]

Anyone seen ED out Sailing Today??