Joining the sailing club is probably one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time. I grew up loving the water. Every summer, my family would go down to the beach, and I would spend hours in the water. We’d go swimming and play in the sand, but we’d also go boating a lot. I’ve always enjoyed being on boats. I was very small the first time I went on one. When I was in elementary school, my cousins and I went to sailing camp every summer. I loved it. I always felt comfortable on a sailboat. I love the wind in my hair and the spray of the sea. But as I got older, I went boating and sailing less and less. Naturally, when I heard about the Rice sailing club, I was intrigued. My roommate and I decided to go to the first practice, and boy did we have an adventure (that’s another story for another time). Today, I went out for the second time, and it was far less stressful and crazy than the last time. There was a national regatta going on at the yacht club, so while we were sailing, we got to watch them. It was so cool! My favorite thing to watch was the roll tacks. Instead of doing a normal tack, you purposefully tip the boat really far to the side before tacking, then switch to the other side of the boat and even it out. And dang, they were intense. Every time I saw it, I thought the boat was going to tip, but every time, the sailors executed the tack beautifully and kept going. I really want to learn how to roll tack now. But I should probably get better at skippering first. :D
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
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