It is happening - slowly but it does happen. One of the big wake up calls this season has been the dramatic increase in fuels prices. I meet people all over who say - "Sailing - that's too much work" or "Sailing - Isn't that difficult". I think this comes largely from other people. Because once on a sailboat with the wind in your face you suddenly realize it. And at the end of the day both the sailboat and power boat end back up in the same place - the marina. Yes the power boat has traveled a further distance but the end point is the same. Yet I tend to think that the end point of the mind is different. Your body and mind naturally have to de-stress on a sailboat.
One of the missions of NauticEd is decrease the intimidation factor of the "learn to sail" stigma. Having to go to a sailing school and sit in a class room is sometimes hard to do time wise. So being able to discover through on-line sailing courses that sailing is pretty simple is simple in it self. Now- however - once the theory and basic theory is down - one must get the practical time through a hands on sailing school. However that it time on the water anyway W5 (which was what was wanted).
I hope that anyone who has hesitated about getting out on the water this season because of the shear cost of it reconsider that boating is right there for them inexpensively through sailing. I spend about $20 in diesel every 6 weeks and I sail actively. Just enough motor power to get out of the marina and pull out the sails.
Come on every one - lets get back on the water - the Icing on the cake of life is time on the water.
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