Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Hello Dear Reader! It has been a long time since i posted something new here. Today`s post story from my dad. It`s about how he started to sail.
Eduard Grigorjev:
* Greetings dear reader. Today I've decided to share my yacht story with you.
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| The Legend |
In early spring of year 2006 i was reading different kind of advertisements and I've found one ad. Ad was inviting people on skipper training course. The fact is that was always interested in sailing but this theme seemed so unreal and far from reality probably `cause of stereotype that sailing sport and yacht adventure is only for reach people and the other fact that sailing is for young people. I was in my 40`s than.
Despite all of this stereotypes and believes I have decided to go to local marine and get some more information cause one of my favourite phrases is - ^If you don`t ask, you won't get an answer^. Anyway, I had nothing to lose. I called to Marine and arranged time and date of meeting. I was a bit surprised when i was asked to bring my friend with me. I always had only few friend , nut because of I`m not sociable, it`s just can not be a lot of GOOD friends only a few reliable. I invited my school mate. I did that with intention, cause he had an alcohol addiction. I really wanted to help him that is why offered this opportunity. In moment when I told him about the yachts and sailing i remember That sparkle in his eyes. It was clear as a day that he is interested in this. I count on that and in the future i was right by my decision to offer him this sailing theme.
Next sunday we went to local marine which is located in city centre. It was February, cold winter, harbour was covered with ice and snow. In-spite on this fact we had a perfect and decisive mood. At the entrance o solid man in the age met us,introduced himself and invited us to Crew cabin.
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| Honoured sailor V.V. on the left |
Vladimir Viktorovich, his name and fathers name, was funny, sociable and intelegent man and he was honoured USSR coach. I found out later that there are world champions and olympic chempions in sailing sport were among his students.Honoured man and amazing teacher who knows sailing from A to Z.
Since that our studies begun. I will admit that in first steps of learning theory i was a bit scared of the amount of information but in time, when i learned all the basis things got easier and much understandable. basic theory course consisted of 10 practical sessions. All the rest information I have learned at home. Time to the beginning of sailing season went very fast.
After boat repairs and prepairing for sailing season yacht marine had 2 boats for our studies. Boath boats were 22 feet, manufactured in Poland in 1986. Boats seemed very similar from the first sight but were different, cause one yacht was pitching and another dinghy.Difeerence i felt from the first moments cause driving performance of these boats is different.Yes, the very first time, those first sensations in the management of a yacht, sail, wind, tiller in hand and surf the water behind the stern - this is beyond words, it`s just has to bee seen and felt.Brains disconnect completely from all over the mundane, there you feel eternity, unity with mother nature and as worse is the weather and stronger wind the stronger the feeling.For me, it was revealed that many people on top do not understand how to handle the wind.Very quickly came to realize that managing sailing yacht requires immediate reaction perhaps even faster than driving a car.Especially with the gusty wind. I want to say directly about that is very difficult to turn cruise boat. It is for those who scared of water.
In my practice was not a single case of the coup.
Regardless of weather conditions on 99.9% boat flipped through the fault of the crew and the first ship's captain and only 0.1% of the weather conditions.
So boldly in the way my friends. Regardless of age and sex.
Join sailing adventures.
Your Skipper.
That was a part of one man sailing story , actually of the way how he begun to sail. I have attached a few photos of our sailing and Legendary boat |Sparta| we had pleasure to sail.
See ya next time.
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| Me in the middle |
King regards, Aj.
