European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Learning to sail at Chi Emsee stood such complicated mailers win resistance and centers of Effort and their teen aged daughter who was hear to mutter something during one storm about the family that drown together and a doctor who proved great at tying double bowline knots and said some thing about it reminding him of med school. The most reassuring part of All was Harry Grimm our skipper who had taught several Hundred landlubbers like me before. And he said that even though the boats looked so awfully Small Fornix grown people after All none of his student had Ever fallen overboard Only one of the instructors who slipped on a wet rope. He never did Tell what happened to that poor fellow but i noticed Harry was careful not to Stepon any wet ropes. A word on the principles of the sailing Book there no mys Tery to sailing. It simply knowing which Way the wind however that not always Sim pleas it sounds. Especially in the rain. We tried the Damp Finger to the Breeze method and got Only a Wetter Finger. Another alternative to see where the smoke flies. One shipmate smoked a pipe so we took a smoke test but Chebook did t say what to do with the sails when the smoke drops in a Blackcloud to the Bottom of the boat. a last resort the skipper a goo source. A few tips on sailing for you who think you be Salt in your veins it a great sport for people especially women who naturally do things backwards. For one thing when the Sailor wants to travel right he turns his Tiller steering Rod to the left. It does t make any sense to me but it works and you re in trouble if you do otherwise. For another thing sailing pretty Good exercise. You can t just sit and watch the Birds Fly by. Even if you Renot Manning the ropes or tending the Helm you re expected to move every Timothe boat or wind direction shifts. And if there a stiff Breeze and you boat starts a healthy Heel that Means leaning on its Side until you think you redoing to capsize you re expected to curl your toes around one Side of the boat and hang your body Over the other Side Teeter totter fashion in Hopes that your weight enough to keep Yoxall from a watery grave or at Best a cold wet Bath. That where especially Good isometric exercises for the Abdo men Muscles come in. You get so scare your panic Muscles contract a lot. It great for your vocabulary. Relearned 150 new words in three Days some of them which i won t repeat and now Only the salts in my Block know what i mean when i say never Belay the sheets in any weather and finally it i ,.s things for the ego. When v0u figure out where the wind j Tran sails and move Long i silence,., for the slapping of the Waves a thumping of your heart Yuu feel in Lily Superior to anyone out there motorized boat. " a warning however your devilishly Clever Deolim for iming conquered nature can end in a beat splash. But even that a sort of status sometimes the Sailboat gets so crowded there standing room Only. It those Little things that keep a Sailor Humble like swabbing a deck at Day end. But it not All grind. There Glamour too especially when and if the Sun shines. F it i $ a it a Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday july 21
