tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post3646226740529108235..comments2023-09-19T08:57:32.980-04:00Comments on Apparent Wind: A Wife’s View: The High School Sailing Coach’s LifeAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511782748972147582noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post-74739229790171099002013-10-02T20:29:16.968-04:002013-10-02T20:29:16.968-04:00I am so excited when i heard about The High School...I am so excited when i heard about The High School Sailing Coach’s Life. Great shots... including the ethereal one! That would truly be something to see up close. What an experience. I once designed one for some friends who had a fairly large sailboat. I had a ball... although they never had it made. I used to go sailing with them every weekend (north shore of Long Island near New York City); we couldn't make turns "on a six pence" but we were were able to turn "on a small house. <a href="http://www.halcyonsailing.com/" rel="nofollow">Sailing Team Building</a>William Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05131396838229297742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post-34689535782945531922009-05-22T09:34:33.742-04:002009-05-22T09:34:33.742-04:00As a high school coach myself, it all sounds famil...As a high school coach myself, it all sounds familiar. To be honest, however, the same story can be told about any professional that takes his or her job seriously.Chris Conleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09067955313235278121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post-54169194081965482622009-05-19T11:15:00.000-04:002009-05-19T11:15:00.000-04:00Congratulation yarg. You made the Scuttlebutt news...Congratulation yarg. You made the Scuttlebutt newsletter... sailing blogging big-time!Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post-76893926308993479252009-05-18T21:34:00.000-04:002009-05-18T21:34:00.000-04:00I can appreciate your situation. I'm also a high s...I can appreciate your situation. I'm also a high school coach... coaching 3-4 practices a week and 2-days of weekend regattas (this year seemed to rain every weekend). Broken boats, travel, kids bailing out for AP's.... ugh! However, the energy I get back from my team makes it worthwhile! To know that they look forward to seeing me every day is my reward. And they learn. ANd they sail faster and better every week. Well, that's the reward along with a pretty solid paycheck...<br /><br />But like Ginger Rogers, I do it backwards and in heels, toting my 5-year old everywhere with me, working another (supposedly) full-time job and managing a household where my husband is a 24/7 sailing director who often travels the same weekends, leaving me to arrange childcare (or drag her with me!).Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16983802380234271286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522701856181722751.post-59937986846767213142009-04-25T22:28:00.000-04:002009-04-25T22:28:00.000-04:00Assumption... there's no such thing as a day witho...Assumption... there's no such thing as a day without the possibility of doing needed boat maintenance; just some days when it doesn't need to be done right away. <br /><br />(Of course, my son's very low key and low budget college team describes their CFJ dinghies as "more patch than original hull", and my perspective as an owner of older boats is that maintenance alone can be expanded to fill any possible number of hours available.)<br /><br />And, I don't always trust the NOAA wind forecasts to tell the whole story, so if it's a particularly important day I'll also pull up Accuweather, Weather.com, Weather Underground, Intellicast, and USAirnet to see whether one of them has picked up a new weather trend or just to take a sort of "committee consensus" on the weather (and to warn me if the situation is unstable when they have big divergences). I do like NOAA's features of having the regular hour winds (2-minute puffs, more or less), gusts, and 20-foot wind predictions; these at least give me a vague idea of what to expect for puffs and lulls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com