DPTrainor
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Again your experience with sailboaters isn't mine.
You can learn to move a sailboat under sail in a day. Doesn't mean you know marlinspike, rigging, weather, rules, courtesies.....etc...etc...
In a day? Took me maybe 5 years to be truly competently skilled in all aspects. Others less time and some more. But this is Newport, RI one of the sailing capitols of the US, so the bar is high, I think it may be a regional experience also. We the kind that on a Sunday afternoon study Bowditch Chapter 9 Tides and Currents, for example. Constant learning and honing skills, especially sail trim.