Sailing tips and advice?

jadeskipper74 said:Hey everyone,

is anyone out there planning an offshore sailing trip where they've got the boat ready to go but are just missing a crew? 😁

Hmm, looks like nobody is biting on that one. 😁

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Wait, aren't ads supposed to be paid for??

Does anyone happen to know of a decent sailing school out on the waterfront near San Diego?
Anything besides what they offer at YCZ.

Hey there, folks... 🙂
Does anyone know of a decent website that hosts actual sailing videos—I'm talking about real sailing on yachts, not some amateurish, "home-made" nonsense? Or maybe just sites with good photography, trivia, or interesting deep dives into the world of sailing. My apologies if someone already posted something like this.

I've been out on the water since I was about six years old, and honestly, I've sailed just about everything except catamarans. It's always been a huge dream of mine to try one, so if anyone happens to have a Hobie 16 they're looking to part with for a reasonable price, please let me know.

Check out this sailing page—it’s pretty much the go-to spot for sailors. It seems like they have just about all the latest news and updates on everything related to sailing right there.

http://www.ijedrenje.com/

Hey everyone...
I was wondering—what’s the current market price for a 49er here in the States versus overseas? (Whether you're looking at new builds or pre-owned)...
Specifically, I mean high-end racing boats—think carbon masts and fully kitted out with all the bells and whistles.
Something along the lines of this one in the photo:http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ph.../0921/49er.jpg

Sandra Cox66 said:Hey everyone... how's it going?
I've been wondering lately about the actual market value of a 49er—whether you're looking to pick up something brand new or if you'd rather hunt down a solid used model—and I’m curious how the pricing compares here in the States versus what you might find on the international market. Does anyone have a handle on the current price tags for these?
Is there anything quite as striking as a perfectly tuned racing yacht, boasting a sleek carbon fiber rig and outfitted with nothing but the highest-end gear?
Take a look at this one in the photo, for instance:Is there anything quite as captivating as seeing a high-performance racing machine pushed to its absolute limit on the water? I was just looking at this shot of a 49er class skiff, and it really makes you wonder about the sheer physical demand placed on those sailors. You look at the way the hull sits, the tension in the lines, and that aggressive angle of attack, and you have to ask: how much raw strength and split-second intuition does it take to keep a boat like that from simply capsizing the moment a gust hits? It’s a beautiful, chaotic dance between human skill and the elements, isn't it?

New money, all wrapped up in carbon fiber, double denier, the whole nine yards... because just a few years back, I was looking at an $18,000 windfall.
You can typically pick up a used one starting at around $3,000 if you know where to look.

You’ve got a handful of them scattered around Zanesville, a few more tucked away in Savannah, and then maybe three or four holding down the fort over in Des Moines.
Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue how much that would come to at this point.

Hey, can anyone lend me a hand here?
What's this thing actually called (the part circled in red)? http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1363/55618600.gif
It's that top section of the roll jeans, right? Any idea roughly what I'd be looking at for a price tag on that?

Does anyone have any recommendations for a sailing school in San Francisco?

We ought to redirect all our funding away from sailing and toward sports that actually yield results. It has been an absolute disaster and a complete embarrassment. To call us a sailing powerhouse is 🤣

Gary Smith66 said:They should just take all the funding away from sailing and dump it into more successful sports. What a massive failure and an absolute embarrassment. Our supposed "sailing superpower" 🤣

🤦

And what sport is actually more successful than sailing at the Olympics? Track and field, shooting, rowing, and probably handball. That’s about it; sailing is fifth. Maybe sixth if the water polo team doesn't choke.

What about our football and basketball teams?

Roger Allen3 said:🤦

I find myself wondering, which sport could truly claim to be more successful than sailing at the Olympics? If we look at the numbers, track and field, shooting, rowing, and quite likely handball all hold higher standings. Sailing sits comfortably in fifth place—perhaps even sixth, provided our water polo players don't choke when the pressure mounts.

It seems that almost everything we compete in and have historically medaled in performs better, especially when you weigh the massive investment poured into those other disciplines against what is being funneled into this absolute disgrace.

What the hell are you even doing? 🤔

Roger Allen3 said:🤦

And what sport is actually more successful than sailing at the Olympics? Maybe track and field, shooting, rowing—and probably handball. That’s pretty much it... sailing is sitting at fifth. Or maybe sixth if the water polo team doesn't choke.

Wait, where are our soccer and basketball teams?

That's a lot of sports...

Man, we aren't America—we don't have twenty-five different sports to brag about.

Timothy Castillo6 said:What are you even doing? 🤔

Yeah—our absolute star sport from the last Olympics...

Gary Smith66 said:Just dump all the cash from sailing into other sports that actually win stuff. What a massive flop and total embarrassment. Our supposed sailing superpower 🤣

I mean, why are we so bad at canoeing? Just wondering.

We've got nobody

Watching these Olympics—low competition, basically anyone who qualified is already in the finals

I guess canoeing is cheaper than those overpriced sailboats, right?

That way you don't have to deal with zero wind, disqualifications, or any of that other crap 😁

Like Xerxes asks—which sport of ours is actually successful?

First off, I’m totally ignoring team sports in this math
And one more thing about sailing:
Send over a bunch of current and former European and World champions and runners-up, qualify pretty much every possible class and crew, scream about being a sailing powerhouse, start out talking about five medals, then pivot to just one "historic" medal (you know, to "break the ice"), and end up with nothing but a huge letdown and a repeat of our greatest American achievement in sailing—4th place.

We didn't even send track athletes who barely scraped by with some mediocre B standard just to get them to London; we sent one swimmer; but instead, we sent 12 sailors, making it the largest individual American sport in London.

Bottom line? This is definitely a disaster for American sailing. It wasn't the weather, luck, the wind, or corrupt judges... none of that. Just a straight-up fail.

Roger Allen3 said:🤦

I mean, what sport is actually more successful than sailing at the Olympics? Maybe track and field, shooting, rowing, or probably handball. That’s about it. Sailing is basically fifth. Maybe sixth if the water polo guys don't choke.

And where are our soccer and basketball teams?

We’ve got sailors in three different categories hitting for medals—two of them finished 4th and 5th, so they’ll probably land right around there too.
In track and rowing, we only made it to one final category, so obviously medals mean way more than a fourth or fifth place finish... but like you said, sailing is doing really well this Olympics.
I see some people whining here about massive investments 🤣but honestly, that's nothing compared to what the British, Australians, or Scandinavians pour into it, not to mention how huge sailing is in those countries.
For comparison, American sailors only get any media buzz when there's a big regatta happening stateside during the Olympics, or if they pull off a massive result—and by "massive," I mean top 3, otherwise nobody cares.

Joshua Gomez54 said:.
I see people whining about big investments here, but 🤣it's nothing compared to what they pour into it in places like the UK, Australia, or Scandinavia... not to mention how much more obsessed they are with sailing over there.

You’re making bad comparisons—looking at our budget versus other countries and how much they spend? Most people here just want to pump money into sailing while every other small sport is left to rot on its own.

Fine, take a classic example—that kid from Mexico... total golden boy, yet he had to pay for his own training.