The higher skill of seamanship

4:18 AM Thu 27 Jan 2011 GMT

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Living with the production of our Sail-World articles each week, tales of adventure and misadventure from the world's oceans, I think how much I keep learning in that higher skill than sailing ? the skill of good seamanship. This week I am reminded again. There were the two brave sailing instructors who have won the Hanson Rescue Medal for rescuing two dumbells who went sailing after it had been cancelled through foul weather. No matter the consequences, never go with a bad forecast. There was the student sailor who climbed the mast only to fall to her death, causing a ...

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by Nancy Knudsen, Editor