Comments on: Just for fun: Sailing in SoCal http://www.sailchannelislands.com/california-sailing/2009/03/just-for-fun-sailing-in-socal/ Captain Dan's Southern California sailing blog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:36:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wayne Roper http://www.sailchannelislands.com/california-sailing/2009/03/just-for-fun-sailing-in-socal/comment-page-1/#comment-1837 Wayne Roper Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:08:52 +0000 http://sailchannelislands.com/california-sailing/?p=176#comment-1837 Very nicely written Dan. As you know, the sailing rags are also ad client driven. They want you to think you need a million dollar boat, one hundred dollar boat shoes, and assorted other necessities in order to have a good time sailing. This generates the income that pays for the rags production. I think if the truth be known, most sailors are just like us and do it for the same reasons that you and Randy have so aptly described. Yeah, I love carbon fiber hulls and huge amounts of sail area that are in Twenty million dollar cup boats, but additionally that base joy can come from a four hundred dollar Sabot on a perfect afternoon as well. WR Very nicely written Dan. As you know, the sailing rags are also ad client driven. They want you to think you need a million dollar boat, one hundred dollar boat shoes, and assorted other necessities in order to have a good time sailing. This generates the income that pays for the rags production.

I think if the truth be known, most sailors are just like us and do it for the same reasons that you and Randy have so aptly described.

Yeah, I love carbon fiber hulls and huge amounts of sail area that are in Twenty million dollar cup boats, but additionally that base joy can come from a four hundred dollar Sabot on a perfect afternoon as well.

WR

]]> By: Randy Bush http://www.sailchannelislands.com/california-sailing/2009/03/just-for-fun-sailing-in-socal/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 Randy Bush Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:44:05 +0000 http://sailchannelislands.com/california-sailing/?p=176#comment-1830 Yeah, I often feel like an outsider when reading the sailing rags; everything seems to be exotic, esoteric, and expensive. But as you say, that stuff makes good copy. Yet the exhilaration of our sport is in no way diminished by the fact that we may be just day-sailors poking about in our home waters on our Hunters and Catalinas. Regardless of where we sail, when we sail, or what we sail, each outing brings new knowledge, new joys, and the desire to get back out and do it again! I'm betting that your very nicely crafted letter echoes the sentiments of many of us pedestrian day-sailors. RB Yeah, I often feel like an outsider when reading the sailing rags; everything seems to be exotic, esoteric, and expensive. But as you say, that stuff makes good copy. Yet the exhilaration of our sport is in no way diminished by the fact that we may be just day-sailors poking about in our home waters on our Hunters and Catalinas.

Regardless of where we sail, when we sail, or what we sail, each outing brings new knowledge, new joys, and the desire to get back out and do it again!

I’m betting that your very nicely crafted letter echoes the sentiments of many of us pedestrian day-sailors.

RB

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