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@legumancer @whalecoiner I got into sailing myself because my step kids needed something to do at the weekend when we had them that took their mind off stuff I don't particularly care to talk about. Inlaws lived in an old fishing town. The local "yacht" club was dying on its arse and desperately needed new blood, and was trying to shed the image you talk about. It was trying to attract local kids to learn to sail, so we enrolled ours.

Then decided it looked fun AF, and my FIL got a 1960s GRP open day boat, which @zoe and I sailed more than he did, for a couple of hundred quid (literally).

And then we decided it would be nice to have somewhere to make a cup of tea, and Zoe and I bought a 1980s 23 foot day sailer/cabin cruiser. Barely more than a floating fibreglass tent with a plastic bag connected to a hand pump for water, but we learned a lot.

When it came to get rid of FILs open day sailer, we literally couldn't give it away.