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From Denis Bessette

This quote is from a painting of a sail boat in our down stairs bathroom:

"Work is for people who never learned to sail."

The other is from an article by Gary Mull, the great boat designer and is from Santana, the Southern California sailing news magazine. It dates from the early 1990s and concerns racing. I copied it at the time because it distilled in one long elegant sentence the essence of racing.

A One Sentence Definition of Yacht Racing Gary Mull Santana September 1992

As if yacht racing weren’t complicated enough, combining the physical aspects of a dissolute aerobics class with a the mental gymnastics of chess played on a moving board where none of the pieces have defined capabilities, we have linked aerospace materials and structures (and economics too for that matter) with electronic systems that would do justice to an F-16 all in the forlorn hope that we will be able to optimize performance to the second or third decimal place, knowing full well that a 15 degree knock or some other caprice of the gods will probably bury us halfway down the class that started 15 minutes behind us.

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Picture is from the SYSCO Spring Series Race #1 April 23, 2013 Kestrel #298 on the beat, winds out of the NW at 12-14 with gusts to 23mph.

David Paligo (Merit 25 Fleet Captain)



Don