really?
My dad is going to teach me how to sail, I'm so excited. I've been reading all about sloops.

To be fair on Wiggy, he's doing pretty well in his career, whereas I'm bored out of my head, so it's unfair of me to expect him to drop everything, I just want to do something exciting with my life rather than wait until I'm retired to do it all.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:59, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I share your pain, sister
Ay, I wish he wasn't doing so well and we both could sell our places and move to the Caribbean and live the good live.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:00, Reply)

learn to sail and pass some crew qualifications then you can
a friend of mine used to crew a 66 foot yacht for a rich banker, yacht was based in Antigua. She used to get paid considerably more than I do (as a civil engineer) tax free, had no accomodation costs and could use the bankers money to buy diving gear and windsurfers etc. for them to play with.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:03, Reply)

I've read about people going around the world and skippering ships here and there
some guy I read about became a boat deliverer based in the Bahamas. *jealouses*
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:04, Reply)

you need to have some connections I guess
my friend used to row competitively (and has family who were big sailors near southampton) and she wangled a position crewing the support boat for the cross atlantic rowing race (the one where fogel and cracknell were naked)

she ended up in Antigua and through contacts got a job on this bankers boat. then the old skipper got fired and she got her boyfriend the skipper job.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:06, Reply)

I think my dad has some connections
albeit of the crew side of things rather than the rich people side. I've heard that it's possible to do it by sailing a lot and getting to know the fellow sailors in ports, or in large canals where they have a pilot, etc.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:22, Reply)

Then
What are you waiting for?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:24, Reply)

For Wiggy to get excited about it and go "hell yeah let's go"
Also, the sensible side of me suggests I should finish at least one degree in my life!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:25, Reply)

Again
It sounds like a brilliant plan, but I get sea sick.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:06, Reply)

yeah
aside from the past few years I've been sailing all my life. my dad is a compulsive boat buyer. I think he's had about 15 different ones in my lifetime.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:01, Reply)

awesome.
I was looking at sailing lessons but they're well expensive and then I thought hang on, Dad's a master mariner. BELM
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:03, Reply)

lessons are probably conducted by awful cunts as well
better to learn from family or friends.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:04, Reply)

that's what I thought
I'd be ever so nervous if I was being yelled at by some guy, whereas my dad would be much kinder if I made mistakes. Although he gets annoyed when I worry about breaking my nails. If I was actually going to get a boat I think I'd have to have them removed first, sadface.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:05, Reply)

my main piece of advice to you would be to turn back long before you get bored
because you then have to go through the sailing back part, the mooring up part, the tidying away, and then if you are unlucky, the rowing to shore part.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:07, Reply)

duly noted.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:18, Reply)

Neither joke nor euphonium -
do you know the Cockle family, Exeter sailors?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I do not

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:05, Reply)