The ASA101 sailing course was the first goal of our trip to Marathon Florida. We took the "Fast Track" approach to ASA101 - ASA104 (7 days). This is the firs...


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sailing for me is the ultimate freedom

it gives us the opportunity to travel to

remote locations as well as the more

popular locations the more touristy

spots our plan is to travel to as many

islands and countries as we possibly can

learning about their history their

customs and just enjoying the sailing

and the tourism and the lifestyle of

cruising we've been boating for about 25

years but only since 2012 have we been

sailing so it's all been powerboats up

until 2012 we bought a small sailboat in

2012 and we sail at every weekend on

Lake Erie which is one of the Great

Lakes so it's kind of like a little mini

ocean so we get a lot of ocean type

sailing only no tides you know really so

but during the spring and summer and

fall we sail every weekend but what that

said we think the best way to be

prepared is to get as much experience

and training as possible before we

embark on our journey a si 101 3 104 was

our goal for getting ourselves educated

and building on the experience that

we've gained on our own sail boat so we

set out to find a school that we could

attend in an area that we actually plan

on cruising in when we retire we chose

Florida Keys sailing in Marathon Florida

and we'll go over those reasons why we

chose Florida key sailing in the next

video or two

you

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well today's going to be day one of AFA

101 and all week long it's going to be

101 through 104 so we'll take some video

of certain parts of the class to try to

capture what's involved in 101 through

104 we'll see you on the boat

think about what you're doing with the

tiller anyway you're going towards that

to undo it but the tillers got to go

there anything and closer here as soon

as distress escape I'll let it complete

shop now you're on that's right

I know it's your first time driving a

sailboat I was a little nervous didn't

know what I was doing but I wasn't about

it

well the first time I failed at sailboat

it was a 22 footer and this is a lot

bigger so if you can drive it 22 you

could drive a 32 but you drive a 32 you

can grab 42 and so on

you

and once I'm exhausted right now because

partly I didn't eat enough calories but

the drills today for Man Overboard just

really really get exercised within a try

it get in shape I think I got it but if

it was so stressful but in hindsight you

know I think we needed to do on the net

and simulated it's something what

happened it would be a gentle situation

at least we get it I think it was just

in suspense

I think they don't think a one-on-one

test out of 100 how many thinking well

I'd like to say I breathe through it it

would be easy but then you know when

something's eating you have to go back

and double check to make sure you don't

miss the inky customs or skip the

question and we messed up an office I

would be anyway I actually didn't it one

question one second I was actually

slightly missed the entire question and

go back and do like 15 questions over

here I wasn't really not famous didn't

know anything I read the entire book and

this some handful cats

and access it took me only a week and a

half but you really really need to mean

to vote more than one yeah more than

once as MPP - yeah quite a sale would

look easy but when you start doing as

you so you get pissed off

yeah little drawings are hard to

interpret yeah

it uses a little drillings in the book

don't try to figure it out watching

YouTube videos it helps but it won't

help you best yeah my biggest problem is

until an operation you know with the

tiller doing opposite of where the both

me feel and then you combine that with

the tack and the wind and it's all

opposite if you're uncoordinated can't

you know do one of these you're not even

doing it might be nice let's do it boy

scouts have safe you know yes practice

how do you get to Carnegie Hall

I'm exhausted

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