𝔼𝕡𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕤 '𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕥' 𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕-𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕐𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕥𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕊𝕚𝕣 ℝ𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝 ℂ𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕕 "𝕤𝕠-𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕟 ℂ𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕕. ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕟 𝔼𝕡𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

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he trouble with sailing is that everyone listens too much to what the so-called "experts" have to say.

I mean: Yes, the actual sailors have years of experience, and yes, the yacht designers have fancy so-called degrees. But I mean, what's all that worth?

Captain Bligh was a so-called "expert' on sailing and look where it got him.

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In yacht design, we've been expected to almost blindly follow the advice of so-called experts, just because they might have impressive credentials.

You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about sailing from social media.

I saw this thing on Facebook about how catamarans are faster than monohull because of science or something, so let's go one step further-let's race in trimarans. And then when our opposition catch up to our innovative design, and launch their own three hulled racing yacht, we'll go straight to a yacht with 10 hulls. Eat our wind, suckers!

spinnakers - so our racing yacht will be made entirely out of spinnaker. You don't get that kind of thinking with your "years of postgraduate study" and "industry-specific expertise".

You see, I believe in having the freedom to be able to question so-called "expert" opinion.

It's obvious to anyone with an ounce of commonsense that all boats on Sir Russell Coutts' SailGP circuit should have more crew on board -how many? I don'tknow.

maybe 100 - so they can all blow into

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the sail to make it go faster. Boom!

Literally!

We'll get rid of lifejacket mandates too. Its my body, so my choice as well.

As a precaution, we should only be hiring sailors with really long legs, so that when the wind is too low they can take turns hopping out the back of the boat and pushing the thing with flutter kicks.

We did this with a dinghy when I was a kid, and it worked realm well. Personal experience matters people.

I hope the sailing community aren't too shrouded in fear to accept my out-of-the-box ideas.

Rod Jackson

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