derek Wrote:
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> How to be a Yacht Captain:
>
> 1) Start sailing in your early teens, love it live
> it.
> 2) Do some racing, do it well, win some stuff.
> 3) Join College sailing team, learn quickly that
> you suck get your ass handed to you for the whole
> freshman year...
> 4) Keep working at it, listen to the coach,
> practice more, even on days off. Sail 352 of the
> 365 days that year. Start to do a bit better in
> the team's practice races. Get a guy with a Gold
> Medal in sailing to crew for you a bit and tell
> you all about how you are doing a lot of things
> wrong.
> 5) Suck less in the Jr year, win a bunch of races
> gel with your crew (now my wife) travel a lot to
> other schools.
> 6) Become team captain in a NCAA ranked school
> dominate the district make solid placings at the
> national level.
> 7) Get invited to race on big fancy yacht, while
> the "heros" go off the the bar and act important
> stay on the boat and work your butt off to make
> sure everything is ready, prepped, and sorted out
> - not getting paid mind you.
> 8) Go start big race doing the grunt job, do it
> well end up driving the boat in the hardest
> conditions of the early AM hrs, win the race.
> Think nothing about it just start cleaning up the
> boat and jumping in to help out as needed.
> 9) Have the owner call you 2 months later and ask
> you to take over the program as he noticed you
> worked hard, did not put on airs and clearly knew
> how to sail.
> 10) Enjoy pay checks never try to get more on the
> sly maintain impeccable ethics at all times,
> understand its the owners boat to enjoy not yours.
>
>
>
> Here I am driving the old girl, some years after I
> retired, I sitll get calls to go do races all over
> the place.
>
>
> See me go at:
> www.11tenths.com
> In the long run Reality always wins.
>
>
>
> Edited 1 times. Last edit at Dec 31, 2009 by
> derek.
Nice. Sounds like a fun way to grow up.
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