High Park Skippers: July 2012

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Overcoming sailing difficulties...

Let's share this video on the amazing experience of some Greek sailors in the last Aegean Regatta. Many thing to learn. Take a seat and watch. (please, copy this link in your browser) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5lETIVSfM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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)