New to Sailing

[Takitimu]

Just a quick into. My husband and myself recently bought a new to us sailboat. We rented our home out and sold our nightclub to live fulltime as cruisers. Unfortunately we are in a marina learning the boat and learning to sail, our insurance company has restricted us. Been looking at this site reading posts to pick up info. We hope to be unrestricted in the next year so we can head out and explore the world. We have been on our boat a month so far and boy have we learned a ton. Bad pumps, placement of supplies, figuring out the dingie.. so many lessons.

We spent months searching and ended up buying a blue water sail boat that had almost everything we needed. It is currently a little torn up as we are updating the navionics to a more modern system.

We hope to meet new friends along the way, the boating community seems to be very friendly and helpful. Coming from the RV world fellow boaters seem way more friendly. We are currently in Coos Bay Oregon. If you are near by say hi.

Mario & John

[Flibbertigibet]

Welcome!

[Drumroll30]

Wow that looks like quite a nice boat you bought for beginners!

[desodave]

Welcome aboard from up the coast in BC. That DOES look like a really nice boat ... but then you're going to have to do some open ocean sailing to get anywhere. Enjoy it

[Muaddib1116]

Beautiful 485, it looks like it's in amazing condition from the listing photos.

[LITTLE DIXIE]

Welcome home you're in good hands here.

[Adelie]

Welcome.

I would suggest updating your profile with your general location and your boat make & model or “Looking” in the "Boat" category. This info shows up under your UserName in every post in the web view. Many questions are boat and/or location dependent and having these tidbits under your UserName saves answering those questions repeatedly. If you need help setting up your profile then click on this link: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ml#post3308797

I would happily help more if the link above is not enough.

[Don C L]

Welcome aboard Mario and John! As Desodave said, as soon as you leave Coos Bay you'll be in some pretty good open ocean conditions! Just put on a warm jacket, head out, turn left and come down to the Channel Islands, it's a great place to visit and practice all the skills! (But first pick the right weather in the right season and bring along someone experienced to help out on the first trip I'd say.)