Quote - Sailing huh? I've been sailing since the age of 7...
What are you sailing on?

All Me Bloomin life.
If I could get it to float, I could make it move.
While at MMA we used Mercuries and Shields in Phys-Ed and the bigger boats on weekends.

Capt'n Gyles used to hoodwink us into working on the Schooner Victory Chimes
http://www.nps.gov/maritime/nhl/victory.htm

MMA has the Schooner Bowdoin
http://bowdoin.mma.edu/

One of my MMA Classmates was Master of the Gazela Primeiro
http://www.gazela.org/ships/gazela/gazelahistory.htm

After being aboard these you really get a sense as to how life was in the old days of Wooden Ships and Iron men.

I retired last year after almost 40 years At Sea, over 20 as Master.

Now back to attempting some of BB's always challenging, for me, Lighting tactics.from poser to LuxRender.

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson