🧵 /sg/ - Sailing General
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 16:09:24 GMT No. 158645
The First Edition
>Who is this for?
Anyone interested in sailing, or anyone that currently sails and wants more information.
>Should I get into sailing?
If you're by a body of water that you can sail on, why not?
>How?
Look into local sailing associations, or yacht clubs. Oftentimes they have memberships that are wallet friendly, and allow access to their fleet of day sailers, or allow you to crew on racing vessels
>How do I buy a sailboat?
Great question - hopefully this general takes off and people will share their experience
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 16:18:16 GMT No. 158647
okay
just because what you're doing involves doing something niche and daunting
DOESNT MAKE IT A FUCKING EXTREME SPORT
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 17:20:22 GMT No. 158671
>>158647
There is a disk golf general, this is much more extreme than that. Where would you recommend this goes? Sports? With the Football, American Football, Basketball, etc??
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 18:37:25 GMT No. 158683
>>158671
go FUCKING NOWHERE AHHH
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 23:56:44 GMT No. 158725
>>158647
>This seething retard.
Open ocean sailboat racing is among the most extreme and competitive sports in the world.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023, 12:54:11 GMT No. 158780
>>158725
Nobody on 4chan is crewing imoca 60s
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023, 09:45:55 GMT No. 160962
bought a laser today gonna fix the deck delamination and rip it next week
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023, 14:43:27 GMT No. 161131
>>158780
You can still get a wild ride on smaller boats. Look at beach cats. And what about moths? That shit is wild. Or international canoe?
>sailing isn't extreme
My ass it isn't.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023, 19:01:05 GMT No. 161179
>>158645
wypipo be sailin dey spices
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Sept 2023, 05:11:39 GMT No. 165216
Who else in college learning how to sail with 420s? It’s fun as fuck
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Sept 2023, 05:45:03 GMT No. 165217
lets just say hypothetically I had $300k lying around and bought this
what size crew would I need to run this thing and circumnavigate the globe?
keep in mind I have no boating experience, I would basically just strut around pretending to be the captain and telling the crew where I want to head next
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Sept 2023, 20:15:27 GMT No. 165915
>>158645
The outhaul especially is on much more than needed for the conditions... Ease everything off a little and power up instad of stalling out, go block to block and do some chad full-extension, straight leg hiking with the head level with the deck and the toe strap supporting just the tip of the toes. Pansy bent leg upright hiking is for slow losers. Probably just expecting too much from a radial sailor though desu.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Sept 2023, 04:44:00 GMT No. 165973
>>158645
>tfw always dreamt of sailing
>grew up inland with no accessible lakes nearby
Feels bad bros. Now I do live and practice near a lake, but I feel like I'll never be one of those world class sailors.