Hardly Sailing

[crazycarl]

I thought once I retired and moved to where I could keep a boat in the water, I'd be out sailing every day.  Not so.  Physical Therapy twice a week, Dr. appointments, DDS appointments, social events, (wife has made so many friends here), and meetings with the contractor have kept me too busy.  Yesterday was too windy (37mph winds), and today P.T. and the wife's dr. appointment are taking most of the day.  Maybe, if I'm lucky, the wind will hold and I can talk her into going for a night sail.   

[Mas]

I thought once I retired and moved to where I could keep a boat in the water, I'd be out sailing every day.  Not so.  Physical Therapy twice a week, Dr. appointments, DDS appointments, social events, (wife has made so many friends here), and meetings with the contractor have kept me too busy.  Yesterday was too windy (37mph winds), and today P.T. and the wife's dr. appointment are taking most of the day.  Maybe, if I'm lucky, the wind will hold and I can talk her into going for a night sail.

...don't even get me started! As you may remember the narrative of my last three years was a total train wreck for opportunities to sail. Boat is in water and the diesel that was never even started last year fired right up and then soon stalled out. Definitely fuel related but still...we were going out but now have to wait till i make that 6 hour round trip to sort it out. I hear ya, as many of the appointments in my little book start with Dr.! It seems it was either too hard for me to sail or events keep us hardly sailing! Oh well Carl, it is hard to feel sorry for a couple geezers with yachts! Hang in there it'll get better.?

[brackish]

Nope, don't think it will get better, although I think both of you are too young for that status, at seventy-five I deserve it.  First and only sail this year in May, in the past never missed a month without a sail.  Been either sedated or anesthetized for medical procedures six times last twelve months. With recovery protocols, follow up visits, post op visits, physical therapy, and driving my wife all over the mid south for her specialists visits (not complaining about that she has the best Retina specialist in the world, we're fortunate to have him) our social life is spent in medical facilities.  When I told my surgeon I was planning to leave his office after a follow up and head to the lake for a sail, he said no you won't. When I said I was thinking about going to Colorado to catch the end of the ski season, he just laughed. 

But in the words of my favorite, albeit marginally sane, character from Night Court "I'm feeling much better now".

[Renae]

Sorry to hear these stories. 

[kickingbug1]

   well, the world does get in the way for every0ne. ours is filled with the grandaughters volleyball games (shes on a traveling team). the weather has no cooperated here either but yesterday was perfect so away we went. temp about 80 wind southwest at 5 to 10. a perfect shackdown cruise. clocked 5 and a half knots a couple of times. the old two strokes ran perfect and rigging and launching not a problem. shes not a com-pac but she sails like a witch. hope everyone gets on the water soon. its where we belong

[curtisv]

Yesterday was too windy (37mph winds)

Oh come on.  Only 33 knots.  :-)  Ok maybe if gusts were higher.