In response to sailing with your Spouse
My story starts around 1980 on a sunny day with aprox force one/two. I took my wife for a sail in Albacore No. 154. The whole experience lasted about 5 mins. 3 of them screaming "get me back in!" So for the last 30+ years I have had to find a crew from a variety of sources. They list is (in no particular order) my brother in law, my nephew, sister, a variety of female friends, and then for the last 10 years my daughter, the lovely Katie. Can I just finish by saying that 5 minutes back around 1980 was a very worthwhile exercise! For me sailing with my wife would never have worked.
Derek Gibbon
7176 Katsie Weightsie
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:28:48 -0400
From: Jefferson Hall <jj_hall at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Albacore Digest, Vol 52, Issue 2
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GO team!
> From: albacore-request at myfleet.org> Subject: Albacore Digest, Vol 52, Issue 2
> To: albacore at myfleet.org> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:00:01 -0700
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>>> Today's Topics:
>> 1. CAA continues to Promote !! (Short, Christine)
> 2. Sailing World News! (Christine Short)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:29:23 -0400
> From: "Short, Christine" <christine.short at bmonb.com>
> Subject: CAA continues to Promote !!
> To: "'Albacore (albacore at myfleet.org)'" <albacore at myfleet.org>
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>> See below an article by Jefferson Hall which was recently published in
Shackles and Cringles and was picked up in Scuttlebutt.
>> Don't forget to click on the link !!
> Christine
>>> SAILING WITH YOUR SPOUSE
> By Jefferson Hall, married man
> This article is about the ins and outs of sailing with your partner or spouse.
Based upon my experience as well as some stories I have heard it is clear that
racing as a couple is not for everyone. However, I also know that it can be a
rewarding pursuit if you have the right chemistry and personalities. The key is
all in setting expectations, respecting one another and communication which can
also be applied to most any pairing.
>> Perhaps it is best to preface the article with some background information.
>> Early in our relationship it became clear to Tracy and her family that I have
an addiction to sailing. Initially I think they believed that I was sailing on
cold weekends and driving to places like Miami, Annapolis & Houston to avoid
family dinners and quality time. If there was a race, practice or cruise I
wanted to be there, rigging & tweaking the boat, out on the water, and analyzing
it afterwards. In time they came to understand that it was in my blood and
something that I needed to do.
>> I used to race on a five person team which was rewarding but became too much
of a time commitment and logistical nightmare trying to make it mesh with family
life. Enter the Albacore. I had been looking at the Albacore since I heard it
was an active class in Toronto and 'easily' sailed by husband/wife teams. For a
couple of years I considered entering the class and was searching high and low
for a boat that I could afford.
>> One week before we were to be married I found one in Burke, Virginia. Since I
am a guy and was not overly involved in the wedding logistics I wanted to
retrieve the boat the weekend before our wedding as the seller was moving to
Texas. The answer was NO. Fair enough, provided something could have gone wrong
causing me to miss the nuptials or perhaps my input would be needed on some last
minute plans.
>> Wedding bells, honeymoon and a road/shopping/Albacore retrieval trip later we
were set to go for the following season. After one Harbour Master and Friday
night we were hooked and excited to compete in the 2006 North Americans. The
first day dawned with some impressive breeze which left nearly half of the fleet
ashore. Tracy was a bit daunted but we launched and planed out to the race
course barely able to breathe due to the spray and were tired but having a
blast!
>> Rounding the committee boat we capsized but she managed to pull the board down
as we went over so we righted quickly and struggled up the first beat.
> By the top we figured out how to depower a bit and launched in pursuit of the
fleet. Gybing inside of four or five boats in the graveyard we were excited
until my knee gave out and we had to retire. The season was over, and two kids
later, this husband wife duo had spent three sailing seasons apart.
>> But last year we were finally able to realize our initial goal of racing as a
husband/wife team. As the season approached some people at my club told me I was
crazy. -- Read on: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/11/0413/
>> TOGETHER TIME: Before I began dating my wife, she likes to remind me how she
won the only Snipe race that we ever skippered against each other. She soon
sailed with me while dating, which proved to be a good opportunity to get to
know each other. And the night before we won the 1989 Snipe North Americans, I
proposed. While sailing with my spouse would soon complicate child care issues,
having the time together made it worth it. - Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt editor
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>> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:19:39 -0400
> From: Christine Short <shortchristine at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Sailing World News!
> To: albacore Fleet <albacore at myfleet.org>
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>>> For more Albacore News - click on this link and scroll down !
>>http://www.sail-world.com/Newsletter_show.cfm?nid=460932>>>> Kind Regards,
> Christine
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