[speaker001:] well do you like to sail
[speaker002:] I used to sail quite a bit when I was younger and I haven't sailed much recently but I do like it I do like it how about yourself
[speaker001:] yeah well that oh I love to sail I have a I was first introduced to it when I was in Atlanta oh gosh in the late seventies I had a neighbor who had a little seventeen foot day sailor that we used to go out on Lake Lanier north of Atlanta just about every weekend in the summertime
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it was just more fun than a barrel of monkeys and just loved it and then uh I I don't know it I had never sailed before and I took to it like the
[speaker002:] yeah how old were you at that time
[speaker001:] um that was um twenty five or so
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then I was transferred to Houston and as luck would have it uh one of my cohorts at work uh was partner uh with another guy who had a forty two foot uh Tarten as a matter of fact he still has it and so I got to go sailing a lot uh
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] on that we've been down to Corpus and over to um I've been on the Pensacola yacht race and just in a whole little bit of gulf sailing and uh it's spectacular um I just it's one of my favorite very favorite things to do
[speaker002:] what's it like sailing on the gulf in um Corpus
[speaker001:] well once you get out
[speaker002:] is it pretty rough
[speaker001:] well now sure I've been whenever it was just horrendous I mean when we went out in storms and then again I've been out there whenever it's just almost you know just real light light waves I mean it's it's varied from one extreme to the other but whenever you get out away from the shoreline out in the blue water and the you know the dolphin start swimming along beside the boat and it uh it's wonderful
[speaker002:] oh wow that's something
[speaker001:] and of course that's the best of all possible worlds because I don't have to pay upkeep on it or any because honey you know that that there's a saying what's a sailboat it's a hole in the water that you throw money into
[speaker002:] I've never heard that one I suppose that's probably true so
[speaker001:] yeah well uh the guy the guy my friend who owns the boat that's what he professes that he said yeah then he said
[speaker002:] forty two foot boat is probably quite a investment
[speaker001:] yeah it is yeah it really is and uh he also says uh uh sailing is is uh a way to go uh nowhere fast to go to go nowhere at very slow speeds at very great expense
[speaker002:] but then you know there's something so much more magical about sailing as opposed to other kinds of boating I feel like um I don't know if it's a matter of the speed or if it's just the fact that you have a little bit more control at the tiller than you do say if you're in a power boat
[speaker001:] well oh yeah and I agree with you a hundred percent I mean I have after having sailed a little bit I just have no interest at all in a power boat and
[speaker002:] almost seems like it would be slightly boring
[speaker001:] yeah and it's just you know the whole idea of getting out there and uh making you know fine tuning the sails and trimming and and adjusting just to to eke out a little more speed from the wind
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh yes yes
[speaker001:] and uh just have and I don't know just the whole you you you well and you're closer to nature too than having a big throbbing engine behind you
[speaker002:] more of a challenge um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I I really do love it I've got uh um my company uh has some a facility in Aruba and I'm going down there in uh this spring and I hope to get a chance to do a little sailing down there
[speaker002:] beautiful clear water down there I'm sure
[speaker001:] exactly yeah yeah
[speaker002:] that's wonderful
[speaker001:] so one of the things I think I may even try is uh uh you know the the little sail board with the what they call it
[speaker002:] oh where you're standing like a surf board only there's a
[speaker001:] wind sailing yeah whatever but
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] I don't you know I'm not quite sure if I'm ready to try that or not I
[speaker002:] I almost tried that once with a on a Club Med vacation
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but um they had these other flat they weren't flat actually they were um probably eight to ten foot little skiffs that were a lot more fun so I went where my experience was
[speaker001:] yeah  yeah and I I have heard people talk that that uh you know you almost have to have lessons and then it's really you know not easy to master those uh those
[speaker002:] uh-huh it looks challenging physically challenging
[speaker001:] it really it really does but again it looks like something that looks how it maybe like roller skating would be it looks like a lot of fun but not that easy to do
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh have you ever surfed
[speaker001:] no I never have
[speaker002:] that might be the same sort of muscles that you'd use but
[speaker001:] yeah right
[speaker002:] or skied those are also if your muscles are developed there then
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it wouldn't be as difficult as it might be for some other people
[speaker001:] yeah right right but uh anyway that's uh sort of the the extent of my water sports but I I do I find sailing just to be uh one of the best ways for me to get out and relax and
[speaker002:] uh-huh have you ever considered uh either buying in with someone else a partnership in a boat or
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I have considered it and at the same time it's um where I live in Houston it's in order to to really get the use out of it I would need to move down near Clear Clear Lake closer to the water
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] and uh that would mean commuting up the Gulf Freeway every morning into downtown and and I'm I live so close to the office that I'm just not
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] I don't know the idea of having to commute on a freeway in Houston every day even as much as I would like to have access to a boat you know more often than I do yeah it's it's just not that
[speaker002:] yeah that's a trade off certainly