All Comments on 'Going for a Sail'

Not first person but second person point of view: I'm sure some folk like them but I don't just dislike them but hate them with a passion. I think it's because the you is intended to be me but I squirm when you/me does something so not me that I can seldom go more than one paragraph. There's a reason mainstream fiction sticks to first and third person narrative: they don't sell.

I loved this story, plain and simple. I learned to sail as a teenager and, beginning in our early forties, my wife and I spent 20 seasons sailing, mostly Chesapeake Bay, but a few other places as well. We had to give up the last boat a year and a half ago, as age and infirmities were making it too difficult to be fun, but we have done so many of the things, both sexual and non-sexual, described here that it brought back some very sweet memories.

"You"-format stories should be prohibited by law. It's the lousiest story-format ever invented.

Totally agree!

I automatically award 1*!

It's not the 1st person POV but tge 2nd person usage that is hard to identify with.