[glitchcrab]

I've been sailing since the age of 10, and teaching it since the age of 18 (on a volunteer basis, not as a career); I'm now 36. I didn't grows up near the coast here in the UK so a lot of my early years were spent sailing on lakes - it's worth seeing if you have options like this near you. It's not a terribly expensive sport to get started with; you certainly don't need your own boat!