Only ship I've sailed up until now was on a Pirate
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.
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.