Hey guys! I'm new to the forum and I'd figure I mind as well post up a "meet and greet" post now. Sorry for the longer post, figured it would be a fun read for someone
I got my sea legs when I was around 2. Around ages 4 and 5 I really got heavily into sailing and loved being on my grampus
boat. I helped him and my grandma on their CS 36 and pretty much grew up on it for some time when I was younger. I never officially raced sailboats but I have attended a few
racing camps. When I was in my early teens I was getting busy with motocross and
school so I wasn't sailing as much but I still made some time. Though my grandma had surgeries and my grandpa was not as nimble as he was before I would still come out from time to time and help him sail around the bay. As I progressed in motocross I had less and less time and they ended up selling the
boat due to lack of hands and because they just needed a break from spending and fixing things. (A boat is a hole in the
water in which you throw
money, as pop always said). Since then I got engaged, turned 21 and now I'm looking at restoring his old
ranger 22 that he's had in the yard for 25 years! The plan is to surprise the fiancé with a honey
money sailing from
san diego to mexico! I'll have a post on the
restoration process and all that later on.
For anyone interested in my landlubber side,
I've been riding a dirt bike since I was about 4 and got into
racing motocross around age 11 and from then it was downhill, literally. I started racing one bike and then progressed through the
classes and ended up with 3 bikes. 1
race bike, 1 practice/training bike, and 1 backup bike. (each bike was more expensive than the truck I had to get them to the track
). My last
race was in the intermediate class which is one class under professional. To keep a long story short, I was out free riding with friends the week before a huge race and wrecked pretty hard sustaining a nearly shattered femur and a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and had amnesia for about 3 days. After all that I
sold all my bikes, most of my
gear and stuck with one bike and set of
gear which I currently ride now. I picked up a Harley right after I turned 19 after a bad breakup and well,
head trauma after
head trauma, a metal plate in my leg, 2 bad knees and currently a pinched nerve in my back, here I am still kickin' at 21
! All I have to say now is if you still ride or race, you haven't hit the ground hard enough yet
So with all that above, I love sailing, I am totally ecstatic to be getting back into it and hope that I don't find a way to break myself on a boat like I do riding
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