It’s Monday morning, and my face is sunkissed and windburned. I wear the signs of the ultimate romantic weekend with my boat, skimming along 30 miles of flat ocean, exceeding hull speed with full sail, and enjoying a freshly caught tuna for lunch in the cockpit. Springtime winds always seem to whirl me into a renewed love affair with sailing. So I gush:
Sailing has got to be the greatest past time known to man. And beast too, I suppose Ratty from Wind in the Willows would say: “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” I would have to agree as Ratty profoundly continues: “In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it.”
I’m thrilled to find so many new ASA fans on Facebook and Twitter this week. You are all lovers of water and wind, and no matter whether you like a full keel double ender or sleek lightweight racing sloop or a ten-foot catboat, it doesn’t really matter. That’s the charm of it. If you are visiting this site, you enjoy simply messing around in boats, and you’ll find hundreds of kindred spirits in this online community.
I hope that you all share your photos and stories with us on these online forums, and take it one step further by joining the real-life ASA community in one of our many awesome flotillas for 2010. I’m going to the Exuma Islands, Bahamas, flotilla in just a few weeks, and I’m excited to relate stories from the event on this blog — so stay tuned! I hope you each find your way to an ASA flotilla soon and share sea stories of your own with everyone here too.
Meanwhile, tell your friends about our new social media sites, and keep sailing with ASA!
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It’s Monday morning, and my face is sunkissed and windburned. I wear the signs of the ultimate romantic weekend with my boat, skimming along 30 miles of flat ocean, exceeding hull speed with full sail, and enjoying a freshly caught tuna for lunch in the cockpit. Springtime winds always seem to whirl me into a renewed love affair with sailing. So I gush:
