Bepi
E27 Roxanne
Imagine you and I were driving along the coast and I decided to make a left turn and drive us off the end of a pier into the ocean. What happens when we hit the water? Panic, as we struggle to exit the vehicle. Now imagine we have done it twenty times in a row. On the twentieth attempt what happens? At that point we are experts and I might suggest that you go first and you might suggest that it is I who must accept the honor. In the first instance there is no time to spare, in the twentieth there is all the time in the world. Why? Competence. This is applicable in our daily lives as the less we know on any given subject the more we freeze up and look for guidance, or assistance.
It applies to sailing as well. When I first attempted anchoring, there was no time, now I seem to have all the time in the world. My first crossing to Santa Catalina Island was a never ending, white knuckled, terror-fest. But my recent crossing, my twentieth in fact, was under reef in 18knts steering mainly with a tiller clutch and I had not a care in the world.
But what happens when long distance sailing? What shortening or lengthening of perceived time occurs between your first long passage and your tenth, or twentieth, or first squall, or large swells, etc. ?
It applies to sailing as well. When I first attempted anchoring, there was no time, now I seem to have all the time in the world. My first crossing to Santa Catalina Island was a never ending, white knuckled, terror-fest. But my recent crossing, my twentieth in fact, was under reef in 18knts steering mainly with a tiller clutch and I had not a care in the world.
But what happens when long distance sailing? What shortening or lengthening of perceived time occurs between your first long passage and your tenth, or twentieth, or first squall, or large swells, etc. ?