but as much as that takes the media today(and that's Utube, not TV), the old sailing experience you mention is as alive and well as ever from what I see around me. The old boats have never been more popular, and that doesn't seem to be a generational thing. They're still not coming into sailing in droves(sailing never has, nor ever will be a mainstream pastime) but kids are coming into sailing both through the new-age speed lure, and the beauty of the sport that is timeless.

Last night I watched a late 20 something female go out to her(and maybe partners) newly built flat iron sailing skiff, and bail it again as the sideways bottom planks are just swelling up. There's a group of young sailors I see on the coast of Maine that are downright old fashioned, stodgy you might say, in their desire to sail in a pure clean simple way that you mention.

Rowing is growing here on the coast, and you, know why.