Showing posts with label yachting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yachting. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

How other people sail, Part 1.

At the British Airways lounge on my way to India, I got a chance to look through some sailing magazines. These publications must represent the exact polar opposite of sailing in a mini.
An alternative approach to interacting with the sea.
 
Looking for "boat improvement" ideas for my minitransat.

I came across this gem:

Time to build a squat rack in my mini.

If you're going to put a gym on a boat, you might as well combine a couple more interests and put a barn and a string of polo horses as well. On the continuum between lightweight, fast sailing with no additional weight/no berths/no toilet, and a floating RV that carries all your crap, past and present in the holding tank, where does one draw the line? I'm not really asking the question, I know exactly where I'd want to make that tradeoff.