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Sailing Courses

Practical Boating Courses, what level is enough? (35 votes)
Start Yachting
18 votes 51%
Competent Crew
   0%
Day Skipper
6 votes 17%
Coastal Skipper
2 votes   6%
Yachtmaster Exam
7 votes 20%
Don't need practical courses, learn the theory and sail.
   0%
Don't need nothing, education is for wimps.
2 votes   6%


New Year Day Swim

New Year Swim? Now be honest! (48 votes)
Proper sailor me, dip every year for as long as remember.
11 votes 23%
Not as extreme, but yes, a dip is in order.
6 votes 13%
Forget dipping, I do 15 lengths, jetty to jetty!
4 votes   8%
Bugger that. Basically.
5 votes 10%
I am with you in spirit!
7 votes 15%
I have no suitable location (Yah, right)!
4 votes   8%
Macho idiots.
9 votes 19%


Old Fashioned Navigation

Navigation with a pencil! Do you do it? (61 votes)
I have GPS, I always know where I am.
9 votes 15%
I have 2 GPS, even better.
6 votes 10%
Yes, paper charts, GPS or no GPS, X always marks where I am.
18 votes 30%
Electronic chart plotter. Don't need pencils.
7 votes 11%
Not until: Bad weather, tin of tomatoes, cracked plotter!
5 votes   8%
I can do it, but why bother, electronics all the way.
5 votes   8%
Tides don't bother me, I can do 30 knots.
1 votes   2%
I am learning, switching to sail after diesel tax kicks in.
3 votes   5%
You crazy people sailing in Atlantic, come to the Med!!
1 votes   2%
What's a pencil?
2 votes   3%


VELUX 5 Oceans

VELUX 5, You've been following, right? (56 votes)
It's fun to follow in the winter
7 votes 13%
I want to see one of them chaps getting into Newry on a rainy night
11 votes 20%
The picture of Sir RKJ staring at a c-map is worth it
10 votes 18%
Sir RKJ for personality of the year, that's my vote.
6 votes 11%
I'm gonna do it one day
7 votes 13%
Velux, they sell blinds, for god's sakes!!!
4 votes   7%
Deadly serious stuff.
2 votes   4%
Forget that, council tax for liveaboards, that's what's important.
5 votes   9%
Other, leave a comment.
   0%


To drink or not to drink

Avast! The cursed Breathaliser? (59 votes)
Over my dead body. My boat, my gin, bugger off.  
16 votes 27%
Well, it kinda makes sense. 
19 votes 32%
This safety thing is killing boating. 
9 votes 15%
Power only, they can go quite fast. 
1 votes   2%
Ok, but the limit must be much higher than for cars. 
7 votes 12%
Here they go again, pass the cork screw honey. 
2 votes   3%
Other, leave a comment. 
1 votes   2%


AIS Radar

AIS Radar. Would you trust one? (84 votes)
No. Especially in busy shipping areas.  
8 votes 10%
No. Electronics is for wimps. 
3 votes   4%
Yes, but I installed a transmitter too. 
20 votes 24%
Yes, but it is not a radar and should not be treated as one. 
43 votes 51%
Other, leave a comment! 
2 votes   2%


Sailing Frequency

How often do you actually go sailing in a season? (73 votes)
I don't. My boat is a babe magnet. 
26 votes 36%
I don't. I varnish it all the bloody time. 
7 votes 10%
3 times or less. I am rubbish! 
11 votes 15%
About 10 times. About average? 
10 votes 14%
Sir! Every weekend, no more, no less. 
9 votes 12%
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