Well Carl, Here's a few pictures for you. The first is yet another toy, but notice the sparkling water in the back ground

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Comes in a kit and by the time you get the good servos and radio, your around $200. Lot's of fun on those days on the big boat when there's not enough wind.

The last are the real thing from a recent 100 mile race on a friends boat. This is what you call a screaming reach! Flat water and a stiff breeze.

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Wonder why I called it screaming? Round here on the "ponds", this is about as fast as it gets...

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Sailing is my first hobby, however since we got the pool a few years ago, it is a close second. It was originally for the girls (wife and daughter), you know, their "boat". This time of year however, I spend more time in the pool than on the boat. Sailing season starts again at the end of the month and runs until the end of May so the overlap is almost perfect. Sailing is really like nothing else, no matter what size boat you have.

Dave
16k gallon Fiberglass salt water pool, without the SWC (My girls boat)
1989 Hunter 30 (My other hobby)

P.S.- Good luck sailork! What boat will you be sailing on?