Twice a week, every week, when I was younger my parents would take my brother and me to the the Royal Brunei Yacht Club… Partly due to the sailing lessons/regattas and partly to allow for the social aspects of growing up in an expat community.
In my experience, when you are young, you do not appreciate how lucky you are to have the possibility to learn and do such wonderfully exciting and challenging activities. Having spent a few years sailing week-in-and-week-out (where I grew to be a tad handy), I can freely admit that there were times when I couldn’t wait to get back on shore for a game of British bulldog or go rollerblading – I just never got the sailing bug the way some others did.
I like to believe that should I have continued developing my sea legs until I was older, Hydrofoiling is exactly the direction I would have gone. Put simply, this is totally awesome.
Here is my piece on a relatively new form of sailing: Hydrofoil sailing
Hydrofoil moth sailing (bmi Voyager Nov 2010). Image of courtesy: Adam May
