posted 19 years ago
BTW, I have a "diploma" from the Annapolis Sailing School certifying that I took a sailing class that lasted 4 weeks in the summer of 1989 in that great sailing town (the sailing capital of the eastern United States).
To prove ourselves, my brother and I rented a 25' sailboat with no engine whatsoever, and took it out of the dock, sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and then came back to the dock (remember I said no engine) and successfully docked in w/o any problems.
Back to the original question, the instructor, who had sailed all his life and was very good a it, confessed during the first hour of the in-classroom classes that he did not know the physics of (for example) how can you sail into the exact opposite direction of where the wind is blowing from.
Tony Alicea
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