Jun04
Wow
I’ve been too busy at work to wade into the Sailing Anarchy Forums lately so evidently missed some of the chatter about this youtube video of a Capri 25 broaching.
Tillerman at Proper Course has a terrific posting in response to an email from Mr Hammet, the skipper of the Capri 25. Hammet has offers some great background context to how and why the video exists in the first place, and an excellent point of view about showing both the elegant, well orchestrated side of sailing and the challenging and unpredictable side.
In his words…
to remind everyone there, we are always learning and experiencing the ways to handle a machine that is totally dependent on all the energies of nature and efforts of the operators and its moving parts to all work together; and that any one or the other these gets out of balance, that events will lead to the disaster that whole world has now witnessed
Check out his comments on the Proper Course blog, THEN click through to see the video. It’s a jaw-dropper.
