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Ericson33
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Initially Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:04:00

I was wondering what age group you all are in? I will list some catagories.

A. 18-25
B. 25-35
C. 35-45
D. 45-55
E. 55-65
F. 65-75
G. 75-85
H. Master

I am 34, Group B. I have been around sailing all my life, and some day hope to pass away on a boat out on the water.

C.S. McKillip
Ericson 33

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:24:45

E-56
Never noticed a lake until I was in my 30s, went for a ride on an FJ and bought a Tanzer 16 and a book. I took the 90's off and came back to sailing in '03.

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mfasis
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 16:04:25

C-

Discovered sailing 3 years ago and bought my first boat, a Windrose 24. I am on my second Catalina 25.

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Don B
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 16:24:02

D - 49

Almost 2 years ago, just for kicks, I took the Red Cross Sailing classes offered through our local sailing squadron...12 foot Bauers zipping around Sarasota Bay. The instructors spoke highly of the Catalinas and lo and behold, at the end of the advance class, I found the Mighty M...I never looked back. Every chance I get I'm out on Tampa Bay. Something called work keeps getting in the way of my sailing time

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Lightnup
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Tom Potter
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 16:37:38

F (71 next Monday). Learned to sail on a Sunfish in 1972 in the Caribbean. Then never sailed again until I met Judy in 1988 and she had a C22. When we sunk that (in 1991) we moved up to a C25. Have been on the winning boat in the Nationals in 2000 (SR) 2004 and 2005 (TR) - the last one in our own boat!
Derek

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djn
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 17:12:30

D I sailed a lot in the summer on Burt Lake in Northern Michigan as well as racing 8 foot hydroplanes. Sailed on and off untill 1985 when I crewed on a 44' C&C. Did that for a while then had to stop because of the time it took from my three daughters. They are all away in college now so we bought the C25. Cheers.

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mashedcat
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 17:19:41

E
1st boat 1968 coinciding with arrival of my daughter. FJ

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 17:21:36

E Started sailing as a young teenager on a boat that was originally sunk. Got the rigging for it, patched it up and an old WWII vet with one arm taught me to sail...ever see a one arm sailor, he was very competent. Spent a number years away from it, the Army does not have too many spots near good sailing areas. Got back into boating heavily in the mid 90s...43' Nautiline Houseboat, Bucaneer, C25 and now a C320.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 17:35:30

B, but will be C in August. Started at a pre voyage party, guy told me I better not drive home so I stayed on board. The next morning he told me to sail the weekend to the islands and go back with another guy on Sunday. that was 11 years ago. I was hooked from then on.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 18:00:47

D but I'm in the middle of that big range, 45 to 55. I too had a Sunfish long ago (its floating right now in my neighbor's pond). My C25 Indiscipline III is the smallest, slowest, and most fun of all the boats I've owned. Perhaps once teenage daughters get out of college there will be an Indiscipline 4 in my future (something like a Cal 39).

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Ericson33
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 18:54:39

I thought I would tell you all of how I started sailing, I will make it the short version. My father raced sailboat when he was my age, I was 6 or 7 at the time. He loved to race and spent allot of money doing it. In 78 he had won the North Americans in Mini Ton Class on a Lindenberg 22, He again won the race in 79. At the end of 78 he began working with Bruce Kelly and designed a Mini Ton boat for himself. It was finished up by late 79, and he took it again to the Nationals to win again in 80, At this time he had found out he had MS. He took the boat on a plane over to Scotland to race in the Worlds. In 1980 Mike my father won the Mini Ton Worlds in a boat Called Mr. Bills Dog. He got a big kick out of SNL and the Mr. Bill Skits. At the end of 80 Mike lost the use of his legs and in 84 lost the use of his arms, He passed away this year in July. SO, My wife and I were looking for a sailboat, we had gone down to South Padre Island and I took her out on a 60 ft. Cat. She loved it and wanted a sailboat so we could go out on it here in Oklahoma. We stumbled across a San Juan 24 that by some chance the MS Society was selling. The boat was awful down below, Gelcoat was spider-ed everywhere, But it was structurally sound and had a really good set of sails. This was in 2003, and it was nice sitting next to my father and asking questions about the boat. Kim (My wife) and I started racing in 2003 shortly after we bought the San Juan 24, we crewed on other peoples boats and learned more in one race than a whole year in reading books. Our Capri 25 was up at the sailing club and had gone up for sail, If you have ever been on a San Juan 24, you will know that the trimmer sits behind the helmsman, Ya it sucks. So, I asked Kim to look at the Capri 25, She was very against it at first, and I had to tell her to just look at the boat. The kicker was that I told her that the Capri would be her boat, and I would keep the San Juan 24 and re-fit and paint the boat. Then we could race each other-----Well you all know I have a Capri, and what happened to the San Juan? I was feeling honery one day and just listed it on Ebay for the price I wanted for the boat. I took everything off the boat I wanted and took photos. I wasn't looking to sell it, But it sold. So now I don't have a boat I sail on my wife's.

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djn
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 19:01:59

HI C.S., it would be cool if you could find and buy your dads boat back. Cheers.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 19:25:23

http://www.skimmercatamarans.com/peerlovfaldbiogr.html

I also found this

Racing Sail Boat Directory - BoatZones.com
Bill's Dog," a 1/4-ton Racing Sail Boat from scratch. Start to finish The Project
took 10 weeks. She won two North American championships and one World ...
www.boatzones.com/3/RacingSailBoat/ - 25k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 19:38:07

C Been sailing since 1995. My first boat was a V25.

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johnsonp
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 20:02:53

Group F
I built my first sail boat early 60's.
It was an El Toro #3874.
Sailed the Bullship race in San Francisco.

paulj C250 wk #719

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Justin
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 21:04:15

I’m 23, born the same year as my boat. This is my first “real” boat, just bought it earlier this month as many of you probably have read in previous posts. I have a couple kayaks, a raft, two R/C boats (one sail, one electric) from my teenage years, and then last summer I built a wooden sailboat model. I’m looking at my wooden model that I have displayed in my living room; I just realized I painted the hull navy blue and my C-25 is navy blue as well (cool coincidence).

When I was 9, my uncle had a Sea Ray and he took us out for a ride. That one day is what got me hooked on boats. As a kid I used to read boat magazines, dreaming about which boats I wanted. It’s funny though, because I only went boating a few times when I was a kid when I visited that one uncle. My parents never were into boating and we never lived around water or near relatives (Army brat). In the past couple years I had gone sailing several times with other people and clubs and loved it. I looked at sailboat classifieds almost daily most of last year and then I found my Catalina. Now, I have a life time of sailing adventures ahead of me.

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 21:12:00

D

My first taste of sailing was on the original board sailer. My dad used to sell boat trailers for some time. He always had a boat. And when he brought home a catboat that was flat with no cockpit at all, just small grab rails and larger than a Sunfish we went out in the St. Johns R. by our house. After that I sailed Sunfish boats in the BSA and at Camp Weed (church) on the Gulf Coast of Fla. But when I was nineteen I bought this 26ft-db ended-db planked mahogany-gaff rigged whale boat that had eight oarlocks. Actually it was a Navy life boat I'm told. But I learned real quick that the wind is your friend when you only have twelve foot oars and no motor! It was another nineteen years before I bought Desiderata, my C-22 I had for five years. I traded up for Chick-a-pea in June of 2001.

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 21:13:07

Middle E. First sailing was singlehanding a flat-bottomed rowboat with a bedsheet square rig and pine leeboards and an oar off the transom, built by my dad when I was about 8. He towed me a couple of miles upwind, and I zig-zagged back down the lake--falling in love with the wind! At about 12, I built a sailfish-style boat of pine, masonite, and fiberglass, with a cotton canvas sail on a bamboo-sparred lateen rig. It sailed well except when the sail got wet--which was only when my dad tried to sail it.

The rest is a looooong history.

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tizer2
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 22:16:53

D -
I fell in love with sailing when I crewed with friends for 3 weeks in the BVI in '92. Been wanting my own boat ever since, and in 2005, finally got it!

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 22:43:10

E - 56
Started on a friend's Flying Junior back when I was around 17. Bought my first boat, a Banshee (similar to a Laser) when I graduated college and had my first job (~22).

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reuben
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 22:47:42

I'm a C for two more weeks. My older brother had a little scow which crouched in the weeds for years after a tornado bent the mast around a tree; when I was 15 a couple older friends helped me fix the mast and taught me sailing. Spent two summers aboard that boat every possible day, then off to college & career and no chance to sail until 30 and married. Bought a (wood!) Johnson X-boat off the side of the road. Discovered my wife was a sailor all along who just hadn't realized it. Later we took in a vintage Sunbird, 16 feet with a little cuddy for a cooler & gear. Bought our C250 wing two seasons ago & cruise with our sons. It's the perfect boat for now, and for the water we're on.

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 : 23:00:01

"F" I can't remember when I started, but I'm pretty sure it was in the early, early 50's with the Boy Scouts of America.

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEREK !!!!!!!!!

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Ben
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Response Posted - 02/01/2006 : 07:46:16

C-35 years old. Started sailing 7 or 8 years ago on a Capril 14.2, moved up to a Cal 21, then to the C25.

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frankr
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Response Posted - 02/01/2006 : 09:15:26

E-60 I didn't get started until my mid 50's. I took out a little 8 foot sailing dingy. Sailed it around a small bay got it back to the dock and was hooked. I built a 12 sailing dingy and messed arround with it (still have it), then we bought a 2003 C250K (which is for sale now) and this fall upgraded to a 1989 Catalina 36.

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