Thursday, September 08, 2011

Gooooooooooooooooooal


Some sailors have goals. Qualify for the Olympics. Win the club regatta. Learn how to do roll tacks.

Some sailors accomplish those goals. Good for them.

I sometimes set goals for my sailing. Sail 100 days in a year. Sail one regatta in every New England state in a year. Cheat the nursing home, die on my Laser. I never achieved any of those goals.

Back in 2008 we even had a group writing contest about sailing goals, and I tried to inspire readers to participate by mentioning the stated goals of various sailing bloggers. One of these was Christy Davis who writes a sailing blog called Central Air. Christy had quite an unusual sailing goal for 2008. Unfortunately she didn't achieve her goal in 2008. Or 2009. Or 2010 as far as I can tell.

But she recently reported on her blog that she achieved her goal a few days ago. Good for her. She said it was "magical". Achieving a goal often is. Especially a goal like Christy's...

Oh, I forgot to mention what her goal was....


14 comments:

PeconicPuffin said...

Can you heave to in a canoe? I've kissed the Mrs. in ours...not tipping over is the challenge.

Kissing afloat should be encouraged on all craft.

Tillerman said...

Agreed. Boats are very romantic. (Excluding jetskis of course.)

Baydog said...

:)

Baydog said...

jetskis are not boats

Pandabonium said...

They need more practice as they are obviously distracted by whomever they are flipping off. But good for her for achieving her goal.

Tillerman said...

The picture isn't actually of Christy and her boy. I think it's some famous actress and her boy. But I agree that they need more practice. Everybody should get more practice.

Doc Häagen-Dazs said...

No to put too fine a point on it, but I don't think goals fit in with sailing unless your goal is just to have as much fun as possible. For instance, years ago, Trophy Wife and I attained a lot more than Christy and we did it in an International 14 under sail with out capsizing. And without goals!

Tillerman said...

Doc, I'm impressed. You're a better man than me!

Doc Häagen-Dazs said...

Not sure of that Tillerman. Except to say your tense is certainly wrong.

bonnie said...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!! Yippee yippee yippee!

Hmmm...TQ and I haven't tried that in Sunfish yet.

Come to think of it, we haven't done that recently in our kayaks, either. We shall have to rectify that next time we can sneak out without a pack of friends. Yes.

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bonnie said...

You know what's really cool about this for me (not that it's all about me or anything, but this is kind of neat)?

I had had this almost perfect 9/11 solo paddle to watch the dawn.

Almost perfect. What made it "almost" instead of "completely" perfect was that a cranky old jerk at the club just to our north decided to think that a good predawn chewing out of this hapless paddler for everything he imagined paddlers had ever done to him would be the perfect start to HIS day.

It was a wonderful paddle and I've been trying to hang onto that instead of just keeping on fuming about the grumpy old fart. Not succeding entirely, though.

But then I read this and it put me in such a totally cheerful mood that it's even gone retroactive to yesterday, and now I'm doing much better at thinking about my quiet morning on the water (egrets and ospreys and brants, oh my!) instead of the stupid five-minute altercation with which the day began.

Nice.

Secret word...preen. Well, yes, I guess I am. S'alright?

Tillerman said...

A post about kissing generates many more comments than a serious post about Olympic sailing and how to improve US prospects at the Olympics?

Hmmm. This blog needs a new direction.

Christy ~ Central Air said...

Oh wow - thanks, guys! (curtsies)

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