Getting Sailing

There is an old saying that sailing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up fifty-pound notes.

Well, I guess if that's your thing, that's fine.

For the rest of us, not tearing up the money would be a really sensible improvement. And as it happens, it doesn't have to be like standing under a cold shower either.

We have here, or will have, some ideas to get sailing from some very low cost ways, though to some ways that are not exactly cheap, but a lot cheaper than that shower.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

... but getting there

It's time we dealt with the UK's rather irritating perception amongst non-sailors that yachting is "elitist". It is not. If anything it's the reverse.

In the UK, we _were_ one of the greatest seafaring nations ever and we darned well should acknowledge that at the everyday level.

This site is a start.

More About Sailing

An information area of tips and tricks, explanations, ideas, HowTos and whatever else seems useful.

Why do sailors use those funny words. Why don't they just say front and back or left and right like the rest of us?

And how does sailing actually work, anyhow? Once your boat has been blown along by the wind, how do you get back to where you started?

Small boat sailing in a rocky archipelago, probably in the Baltic sea. Actually, I think it's not quite in the Baltic, but in the North Sea area of the entrance to the Baltic. Kragerø is a little south of Oslo.