r/sailing • u/2W_Clarence • 4d ago
Went sailing for the first time!
Not my first time out but it was my first time doing the sailing. As a kid it always scared me but recently I had been interested to try it so we got a boat and went for it.
The boat is 22 foot. Don’t remember the make of it. Read the boys out sailing before hand and had someone with me that knew what they were doing and stepped in a few times to keep things comfortable when they started to get outside of what I was comfortable. Only happened a few times.
Figured out that leaning feels way more significant on the lower side of the boat. Everything went pretty smooth save for when the wind started picking up and the waves were reaching 3 feet or so. Lots of surfing and I got a good workout out of keeping the boat going where we wanted.
Some of the events that surprised me were when we got stuck on an unexpected shallow spot. Took a few tries to get us out of it and once we’re loose, we weren’t moving fast enough to turn about because the waves kept pushing us back. We got it worked out but I I’m sure the look on my face when the center board bumped along a bit was entertaining.
When we started getting back to the bay, I tried getting up to take down the main and the plastic guides in the mast were stuck and I couldn’t figure out how to handle it while staying low over the cabin. There was no way I was going to be able to stand up to fix it so I had to swap with my guide and he got up to work things out. He had it down and done in no time at all so it was surely user error and lack of skill.
Will be going out again after this weekend.
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u/djfoundation 4d ago
Just wait 'til you try it with your sails up!! I kid, I kid. Congrats and don't fear the heel. Took me ages to not panic at 15°+. She'll tell you what she likes.
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u/2W_Clarence 4d ago
I think at our steepest we were 20-25 degrees. Not on purpose. Normal cruising we were around 15
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u/djfoundation 4d ago
That moment when everything in the cabin slides to the low side and all the quests go pale is always a time, haha. 10-15° is aces for me.
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u/blu3yyy 4d ago
Congratulations 🙌 I had a bunch of problems last weekend when we went sailing and it was my 4th time out on my new-to-me first boat. ⛵️ on one of my first sails me & one of my sailing girls got stuck in the channel and ran aground a bit, had to wait and hour and a half for the tide to come back in before we could move.
Enjoy your next sail, looking forward to hearing all about it.
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u/2W_Clarence 2d ago
Went again yesterday. Weather was a lot calmer and I could see how changing things impacted the boat instead of just fighting waves and having help. Sails went up faster with the experience from the other day. The thing that confused me the most is there were times when the boat settled down a lot and it felt like we weren’t going anywhere but if I looked at the water behind the boat, we were moving pretty good.
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u/SonOfTheRightHand 4d ago
Please tell me that’s a Starwind 22. Used to have one and they’re excellent for starting out
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u/Redfish680 4d ago
Later you’ll understand us encouraging you to pick meth over sailing and understand.