Is this *really* accurate?
- Thread starter Kermit
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I personally find it stress reducing - but have sailed with others your afraid are going to have a stroke any second, and never relax -
I ask this because I'm not sure if it's true for me or not. I *love* sailing. It's certainly my absolute favorite form of boating. My family owns a pontoon boat, in fact a very nice one, but I find it to be boring. As much as I love sailing, I don't find it to be particularly stress-free. I find it fun and exhilarating. It is certainly a lot of work. It is work that I would rather do than sit behind the wheel of a pontoon boat. But I can't honestly say that it is a weapon of stress reduction.
I guess I'm just sort of wondering if other people feel the same way. Maybe this would be a good question for the weekly poll sometime.
I guess I'm just sort of wondering if other people feel the same way. Maybe this would be a good question for the weekly poll sometime.
I think the original Tee shirt definition of stress was "not being able to choke the living $4it out of some a$$hole that dearly deserves it". But I think we have a picture in our heads of how everything should go, including sailing, and any variation from the picture causes stress. I like sailing, it keeps you thinking and moving and it is sometimes still stressful. It's usually only a couple of minutes that are few and far between but I would opt for the worst sailing day I've had over any day at work.
That just goes to show it's a bit different for everyone. I absolutely hate the endless "buck, buck, buck" of the diesel, when between the mainland and Vancouver Island in calm weather. It's like being in a power boat but dragged out over a longer period. Boredom to the extreme.
Give me early spring and fall along the pacific northwest any day. Less traffic, more wind. In general, it's people that I find stressful/annoying, whether they are running into you, or making a peaceful anchorage noisy.
But...there have been times when the weather has made me wish for a bit of boredom.
I guess the real answer.... as you say... is... it depends.
You use a power boat if you want to get somewhere. When you're on a sailboat, you're already there.
So ... sometimes sailing requires "depends" and sometimes not.