Any sailors?

[Rose]

I know everyone here has sailed through cyberspace in a virtual U-Boat etc., but who here ACTUALLY sails in the real world, be it sail-boats, Navy, or otherwise?

I started out sailing Optimist dinghy's (goddam floating bathtubs if you ask me), then a few years ago i bought my own Laser (the Laser is used in the Olympics in the male solo class :D). I have been sailing on that good ol' Laser for the past few years on the wonderful Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Great place to go escape if yer from Chicago.

[Gorduz]

There are plenty of old Navy guys here. Personally I have sailed a bit, but prefer a boat with engines. As my Navy career I served one year in the 21. MTB(Missile Torpedo Boats) skv. of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

[Polak]

Ay, many sailors and pirates here! :arrgh!:

[VipertheSniper]

Only ship I've sailed up until now was on a Pirate :arrgh!: class sailing boat(I don't know what they're called in English), but they're bigger than Lasers. I guess in my next holiday I'll go sailing for a bit, haven't done so in ages, so it might be a bit hairy.

Funny thing that happend on my sailing exam: Surfers are supposed to give way for sailing boats, well we were supposed to dock at a buoy, and already had the sails down and were only floating slowly towards the buoy, and from starboard there's this surfer, also only floating. we wave our hands, shout at him, he doesn't react, he was aware we were there tho. I guess he was only a beginner, so we float, he floats, we don't manouvre since we have the right of way, he doesn't manouvre either, and *clunk*, we downed a surfer. :roll: He threw some insults our way, and then our teacher taught him a lesson... Then we had to do the stuff all over again, since the collision stopped us a bit too early.

[Rose]

:arrgh!: you dirty pirate you!

[kiwi_2005]

Do Cyber Uboat sailors count? :arrgh!:

[Bill Nichols]

There are plenty of old Navy guys here. Personally I have sailed a bit, but prefer a boat with engines....

I prefer a boat with a nuclear reactor! :arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

Not me.




Well, except for the destroyer in Viet Nam.

[Kapitan]

I have worked on a frieghter and have a place as an officer cadet with clyde marine.

[Bort]

As a Sea Cadet in 2001 I did a 2 week cruise aboard the training vessel MANATRA III working out of DuSable Harbor at the mouth of the Chicago River. It was very cool. I'm an officer in the Sea Cadet Corps now and I hope I can staff a cruise next year!
The MANATRA III- ex YP-671:
http://www.twincitiessquadron.org/3aug2002yp671pics/yp671.jpg
http://yp671.tripod.com/:arrgh!:

[Rose]

Ahh, I'd go out on ol' Lake Michigan any day :smug:.

[cowman1009]

Active Duty USN here.....currently serving on board my 3rd Submarine. Did 3.5 years on the USS Asheville (SSN-758), 3 years on Mystic (DSRV-1) and now am in Groton on board another 688 class sub. :rock:

[Ishmael]

6 years USN tin-can sonarman hunting the great steel whales. Actually found 7 of them.
1972-78. In the 80's I was a jibman on a Cal 35 sloop sailing in the SF bay out of the Vallejo yacht club.

My ships were USS Schofield DEG-3 and USS Elmer Montgomery FF-1082.

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[Terrax]

I haven't myself, but my Son sailed with the merchant marine for a while. He really liked it, and made excellent money. The stories of his umm... adventures were quite entertaining too. Then he came home to visit and an old girlfirend called him up. All of a sudden, he hated the merchant marine for some reason and stayed here.:nope: