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04-10-2011, 21:59
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#1
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 13
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New To Forum
Hi,
My name is Shai, and luckily I found this found this site while checking out various sailing schools.
I currently live in New England and I am looking to purchase my first sail boat and learn to enjoy life for what it has to offer instead of the 9-5.
I having been doing a lot of research on living on a boat. I am such a recluse that my apartment could be a boat if had ocean sounds, so I think I would enjoy learning to sail and the new adventures it has to hold.
I am just turning 50, do you think this is to old to begin to learn to sail?
Shai
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04-10-2011, 22:20
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Boat: SAGA 27 AK
Posts: 509
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Re: New To Forum
Not at all shai, never too old as long as you are willing to take it step by step, and you are fit enough to haul a line or two.
Welcome to the Circus!
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Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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04-10-2011, 22:33
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 13
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Re: New To Forum
I am looking at boats as we speak
My friend has a great 40 foot that he is getting rid of, I think that it is way to big for me. Although I am looking at the shipping rates from mass to florida
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05-10-2011, 00:15
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#4
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 591
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Re: New To Forum
Quote:
Originally Posted by shai
Hi,
My name is Shai, and luckily I found this found this site while checking out various sailing schools.
I currently live in New England and I am looking to purchase my first sail boat and learn to enjoy life for what it has to offer instead of the 9-5.
I having been doing a lot of research on living on a boat. I am such a recluse that my apartment could be a boat if had ocean sounds, so I think I would enjoy learning to sail and the new adventures it has to hold.
I am just turning 50, do you think this is to old to begin to learn to sail?
Shai
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Shai,
Welcome to C. F.
Remember,
age in but a personal index into experience...
Congratulations on learning to sail with 50 years of life experience...
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05-10-2011, 04:38
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#5
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,139
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Re: New To Forum
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Shai.
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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05-10-2011, 05:47
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#6
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Singapore
Posts: 2
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Re: New To Forum
Hi Shai, i am in the "boat" as you are. New to this site and sailing. Already 47 but feels like 17...ha,ha,ha.....
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05-10-2011, 05:57
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Clear Lake Marine Services - Seabrook, Texas
Boat: Gulfstar, Mark II Ketch, 43'
Posts: 2,359
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Re: New To Forum
Welcome Aboard Cruisers Forum
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Formerly Santana
The winds blow true,The skies stay blue,
Everyday is a good day for SAILING!!!!
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05-10-2011, 06:14
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#8
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,139
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Re: New To Forum
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, zuco.
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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05-10-2011, 07:00
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#9
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Florida
Boat: Matlack, Trawler, 48 ft
Posts: 1,061
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Re: New To Forum
You are absolutely not too old.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
—Jacques Yves Costeau
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05-10-2011, 18:59
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Singapore
Posts: 2
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Re: New To Forum
Thank You all for welcoming me to CF.......
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27-10-2011, 11:52
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Re: New To Forum
Aloha and welcome aboard!
Good to have you here. Wish I were 50 again.
kind regards,
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John
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28-10-2011, 14:16
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 13
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Re: New To Forum
Skipper John
I wish I was on that boat with you in that pic
Shai
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