Martina and I love to travel; but with our limited budget, we tried to determine the best way to see all the sites that we could when we retire. A friend that worked with my wife purchased a sailboat a few years ago, and together with her husband, they repaired her, sold all of the their belongings, and set sail. This idea intrigued us. Since two thirds of the world is covered with liquid h2o, you can see most of it, or at least, arrive at the coast, of many places by water. After discussing the idea with my better half ;-) we decided to learn how to sail. Now, both of us had never sailed and even our experience with boating was very limited, but we decided to try. We purchased a 25ft sailboat and started learning the ropes, no pun intended. LOL After a few outings on the Mississippi river where our boat was located, we soon discovered that we didn't know squat! We did some research and decided to take sailing lessons. ASA101, basic keelboat. We signed on with Bill Learn from St. Louis Sailing and jumped into sailing with both feet. The weekend of our training it was raining sideways and about 40 degrees out. We sailed in 3 to 4 foot waves and 30 knots of wind. My wife thought we were crazy and I was starting to agree, but I had an epiphany, I could sail that boat! Not perfect of course, but I knew or had a sense of what to do, so when we made it back unscathed, the obsession began....
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