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• Exercises aboard... most of the time cruising involves sitting on your butt
  • I like sailing because I get to sit on my butt.
    • Hard dinghies can be enjoyable to row
      • I see Kayaks onboard with some regularly.
        • I see kayaks under my bow with fear and loathing
          • The marina where I keep my boat is full of those things...
            • It gets bad when there's a cluster of them in the channel
              • Same here near Annapolis
                • I forget how much boat traffic exists in some harbors.
        • We have a small kayak that we take cruising
          • I like that... "speed bumps."
            • There's a guy here who rents them
              • We have a similar situation here.
        • Kayaks Aboard ....
          • How often do you use them?
            • Kayaks
          • Kayaks Aboard ... Usage ...
    • Power Boater's sit on the Dock and drink, Sailer go out Sailing
      • Sailors can pound them pretty good,...
        • That's a concern now that my cruising is over
          • I have a friend restoring a boat. "The thing I didn't figure in 15 years ago, was getting old"
            • With a 3 and 6 year-old he's not allowed to be tired
              • Nor best laid...
            • thinking of something we can use for club races
              • As soon as you start considering whether the cost is "worth it..."
                • I hear ya but ,
                  • Hey, maybe trailer sailor...
    • 13lb rubber coated dumbbell works for me
  • Walk, walk, walk.....the dog.
  • I get plenty of exercise
    • That's pretty much our experience as well.
      • When we got to Astoria after 30 days at sea......
    • Same here!
    • I don't see how you get exercise while on passage.
      • I seem to
        • Cruising is how I quit smoking. Ran out.