WE sail for the exercise, the joy, the competion, the love of making a beautiful craft plough through the water via mother mother nature alone and then what do we do we party????? you may want to look at main gallery page/social/bourne_end_week_2005_scary.jpg cheers allezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Why do we race sailing boats?
No more expensive way of going really slowly been invented by man than sailing.No less of a quandary to the land lubber is the idea of racing boats moving at speeds no faster than a man can run...
But regardless of the outsider's view, there is something about the sport of Yacht Racing -- the heart pounding pressure of competition, the 
brain straining tactics and strategy, the fortune telling of wind events, the stress of seeing heavy floating masses of expensive racing boats converge just inches apart with no brakes, the tension of stop watches clicking the seconds away, the sounds of crackling sails, hull pounding waves and the firing start gun, the intense focus on telltales and advancing waves, and the winning or getting closer to winning -- that just gives us 
all a rush and keeps us coming back for more week after week. We just love the challenge.
Yacht Racing is also known as the most complex sport ever invented by man. Pick a sport. Any sport. And find that in sailboat racing the venue is not a fixed football field or basketball court or even a racetrack, but is a changing surface that is sometimes flat, choppy, confused, peppered 
with different sized waves with different periods and heights, coming at the boat from different directions, with characteristics that differ from 
location to location. A sport where the predominant forces of wind and water are unknown from moment to moment, where velocity, direction, and consistency may vary by height from sea level. A sport where the participating vessels can only 
move forward and the predominant factor controlling chaos is the "corinthian spirit" and each participant's understanding of the rules. 
A sport driven by teamwork, intellect and sometimes physical and mental endurance. A sport where sometimes different boats may be used, each 
variant having a different speed, different rigging and sails and unceasing learning.
Well thats why I do it!

Very poetic. I suspect some people just do it for the totty though.

In which case they'd do better in Kings Road!

not enough water in the king's road - did you mean king's reach?

The Ancient Geek is not far off but missing some of the other attractions of our sport.
1.	There is also the challenge of drinking your host club dry of every alcoholic beverage before 10pm.
2.	Massive sleep deprivation.
3.	Tall tale competitions of all heroic and suicidal gybes.
4.	Surviving  4 days with killer indigestion from the Curry Kebab Chinese and Burgers that form your survival rations
5.	And the biggest challenge of all convincing  the other half that you just went for a sail around the cans and back to the tent before dark

Or is that only the Scottish Rocketeers

One Totty is in the Kings Road! (Get with the text!)
Two. I regret I've reached the time of life when a headache and raw throat are not the necessary result of having to be drunk as a skunk 
a.
 to relax my inhibitions, or
b.
 to enjoy myself.
Having said that I'm far from TT.

Unfortunately, my experience with totty on the King's road has always been less than succesful.  I think it arises from having temporarily mislaid the keys to ones Ferrari and the AMEX black having gone for a burton too...

Ugly might have somthing to do with it.

I do it for the boys!!!

I can dress up in a rubber suit and roll about with another woman every sunday