RE: Sailing Education

Stallings Mike (Stallings_Mike@prc.com)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:53:52 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Lake Travis is close. It would be easy to learn here I
wouldn't need to use
vacation doing it, but the winds are difficult to read. You
can be sailing
along on a run and suddenly the rail will be in the water as
a sudden gust
comes around a hill. I'll most likely be sailing here on any
weekend.

Sailing in swirly, gusty winds _is_ an education. If you are not being
challenged and overpowered, and perhaps dealing with a little fear besides,
then you aren't really learning too much. An hour of sailing under those
conditions could be equivalent to a year of sailing with steady breezes.
And you may come to prefer challenging conditions.

I say take your course under steady breezes so you won't be totally
confused, then go home and get your real education. Except, no one can
guarantee the steady breezes.

Mike