March 8, 2006
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How to Race a Sailboat
I found this gem on someone’s myspace.
HOW TO RACE A SAILBOAT 1) Call seven friends Friday night, have them all meet you at your house at 7:00 am tomorrow, sharp. 2) Have your friends clean your house, and haul everything from the basement to the attic. 3) After the house is clean, everyone wraps themselves from head to toe in plastic. 4) All eight of you cram together in the bathtub. Point a large fan at the tub and turn the shower on cold 5) While yelling and swearing at your friends at the top of your voice, tear up $100 bills. Do this for six hours. 6) At the end of the six hours, everyone gets out of the bathtub and walks around the house, dripping wet. 7) Have all your friends clean your house again and take the stuff from the attic back to the basement, then take them all out to dinner. 8) Invite them to come back next weekend and do it again. I sure miss racing. There’s nothing like hanging out with a group of masochists.
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Almost all my racing experiences were bad ones, save a couple of 2nd place trophies. I quit racing when I was 13, after CFJ Nationals 2000. After a hard summer of training with my skipper, taking instruction from professional racers and preparing our boat, the yacht club gave it to a flag member’s kid for the weekend and we got stuck with a loaner from a lesser yacht club with a bent mast. People who are hardcore competitors are most certainly masochistic. Or rich. Or both.