Just when you start to think you've mastered the sport the elements conspire to remind you that you know nothing. Nothing builds friendship like trusting your property and life to someone else. Recent events like the Around Alone and the Sydney-Hobart race remind us that sailing can be dangerous. In big wind and big water a crew must come together. Even without Mother Nature's rath sailing is a wonderful team sport that builds life long friendships.
Sailing is half art, half science and half luck.
Learning to fly between wind and water is a life long pursuit. On the water conditions constantly change and all of the controls interact with each other. Each time you adjust one line you have to adjust everything else to go along with it. Nothing and I do mean nothing is as fulfilling as sailing your best race. You can't play hockey without a stick, you can't play baseball without a glove and you can't win a race without preparing your boat.