High Park Skippers: Starting the new season...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Starting the new season...

Some hours with good weather gave us the perfect time frame for a start. Just sailing around while trimming the sails for the first time this year was wonderful!

A first sailing try not more than two hours long let us enjoy the lake and the southwest view of Toronto. It was a recognition time to adjust the main sail and the Genoa, checking and fine-tuning their elements. Everything is working well and the crew is enthisiastic!

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Walt Whitman... AFTER THE SEA-SHIP

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds,

After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,

Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,

Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully
flowing,

The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome
under the sun,

A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,

Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.

(from http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1881/poems/117)