January 24, 2005
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The Poorman’s Sailing Page
If it had not been for a certain group of really crazy people who thought sailing in a prairie was not completely insane, I would have had to learn sailing by video too. So the website below makes me smile.
The Poorman’s Sailing Page
Adventures from the Lunatic Fringe of the Poorman’s sailing adventuresRay Hicks:
Skipper of the boat
IT programmer
learned to sail by a video
Nick Philips skippering the Boat in Kemah, TX
‘On July 1st the two of us will begin our adventure of sailing the Carribean Islands. This is a dream that has possesed me for quite some time now. To strike out on my own with only the ocean blue and the wind to follow. We will be taking a 27 foot sailboat to points unkown to us throughout the the Gulf Of Mexico. There have been comments made to us that were taking grave risks with out enough experience for what we are about to do. There is really only one way to get that valuable experience. Like they say, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” We are jumping in with both feet. When my releatives express their concern about the trip, I tell them, “We are going through shark infested waters and tranversing the Bermuda Triangle to go to a communist country, what could possibly go wrong?”‘
