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I too prefer giving sailing lessons closer to shore or island, or anything that isn't "just water for as far as the eye can see". It gives them a better sense of their own motion and boatspeed to compare themselves to, instead of just tacking or jibing from "big water" to "more big water" with...

I meant it mostly in jest, "Doomed" wasn't meant to mean I'm unhappy about "sailing the other guy's boat", which I confess i do, sometimes. Banging around the harbor alone in a Turnabout taught me the basics, the "hard" way. Some kids got taught at the racing junior yacht club, I didn't, more...

Yup, racing "ruins" us, always tweaking to get another quarter of a knot speed when we're going, uh, nowhere and back, and there are no marks. Worse yet, you're dying to correct that boat near you who has sails strapped in way too much on a broad reach. Everyone over-trims it seems, why don't...

Our community sailing center had a regatta day yesterday, nice day out on the Lake (Pontchartrain), coulda used a bit more wind, but not too bad. Four teenage students on our boat (Gary Mull-design Independence-20), racing against three others, with the grownups there to help as little as...