Monday, July 18, 2005
LESSON FROM NATURE
▼ He had a customary practice to welcome the beginning of summer vacation. He walked down to the lakeside and slowly dipped his hand into the water. It was what Arthur Ransome experienced in his youth. He is an author of famous “Swallows and Amazons” series of children’s books.
▼ He wrote about his adventurous sailing during a holiday season on the Lake District in Britain. His books brought forth young sailing fans in the world. Amamiya Isaku, 47, is one of them, who works for the National Institute for Sea Training in Japan to train sailors.
▼ Yearning for the life of Ransome, he was enrolled in Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine. He found it significant to work for a school ship and brought up many student trainees. He participated in the North American School Ship Race to commemorate the second millennium in the year of 2000. He was the chief officer of the Kaio-maru that won the first place in the race defeating powerful rivals in the world.
▼ Why do they need to train themselves on a sailboat in this age of modern technology? Amamiya says, “A sailboat does not move without wind. If wind is on our side, sailing is comfortable, but if not, wind might deprive of your life. Students learn how to cooperate with each other in defiance of nature’s threat.” After taking an ocean cruise for two months, “they become a little more adult-like with a beam in their eyes and consideration to others.”
▼ In the home of sailing boats, Britons use school ships to train young people. In one of Ransome’s series, the most exciting one, “We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea,” describes the leading characters of four brothers, who sailed a drifting boat in the midst of fog and storm and crossed the North Sea from Britain to the Netherlands. They became fully-fledged by overcoming the perils.
▼ In the world of sailors, they say that “Sail Teaches You.” At the time when nature is ignored and efficiency always comes first, many things will be taught by sail.
▼ He had a customary practice to welcome the beginning of summer vacation. He walked down to the lakeside and slowly dipped his hand into the water. It was what Arthur Ransome experienced in his youth. He is an author of famous “Swallows and Amazons” series of children’s books.
▼ He wrote about his adventurous sailing during a holiday season on the Lake District in Britain. His books brought forth young sailing fans in the world. Amamiya Isaku, 47, is one of them, who works for the National Institute for Sea Training in Japan to train sailors.
▼ Yearning for the life of Ransome, he was enrolled in Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine. He found it significant to work for a school ship and brought up many student trainees. He participated in the North American School Ship Race to commemorate the second millennium in the year of 2000. He was the chief officer of the Kaio-maru that won the first place in the race defeating powerful rivals in the world.
▼ Why do they need to train themselves on a sailboat in this age of modern technology? Amamiya says, “A sailboat does not move without wind. If wind is on our side, sailing is comfortable, but if not, wind might deprive of your life. Students learn how to cooperate with each other in defiance of nature’s threat.” After taking an ocean cruise for two months, “they become a little more adult-like with a beam in their eyes and consideration to others.”
▼ In the home of sailing boats, Britons use school ships to train young people. In one of Ransome’s series, the most exciting one, “We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea,” describes the leading characters of four brothers, who sailed a drifting boat in the midst of fog and storm and crossed the North Sea from Britain to the Netherlands. They became fully-fledged by overcoming the perils.
▼ In the world of sailors, they say that “Sail Teaches You.” At the time when nature is ignored and efficiency always comes first, many things will be taught by sail.
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