Re: How else am I going to learn.

"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>A subscriber to uk.rec.sailing was recently criticized in that group for 
>posting a link to a chart on which he had drawn in a sketch of his tacks
up 
>a coast. Another subscriber replied that he would be ashamed to post 
>evidence of incompetence due to the incorrect and inefficient way the 
>sketch indicated the tacks were done. The original subscriber replied
that 
>he wasn't ashamed because how else could he learn unless he made
mistakes.
>
> I say to this sad case that his reply, though a typical ignorant liberal

> response, is wrong - all wrong. In case some of you readers have fallen 
> into this same trap there is another way - the right way. Allow me to 
> explain further . . .
>
> The right way to learn how to do anything is to first do some research. 
> This involves reading and understanding books by various authors who are

> considered experts. It involves doing using the Internet to further
glean 
> the facts and the rights and wrongs. It involves asking around at the 
> yacht clubs and docks. It involves being informed so that you can say
you 
> at least looked before you leapt. You should strive to sail mistake free

> first time, every time. Anything other than mistake-free sailing is 
> unacceptable.
>
> Embracing the method of going about a task willy nilly without a sound, 
> informed plan and blundering around making mistake after mistake because

> you think that's the right way to learn demonstrates how lacking in 
> general the educational process has become. Or, how stupid and compliant

> people have become because of the brainwa****ng they get in the liberal 
> public education system. In other words they're taught it's OK to be a 
> blundering, inept, dangerous fool and that learning is a hit or miss 
> process.
>
> But go ahead and make learning from your mistakes your primary method of

> learning. Myself and others who don't subscribe to that folly will at 
> least get a good laugh out of your childish, amateur and pathetic
efforts.
>
> In rec.boats.cruising Skip Gundlach is a good example of amateur and 
> pathetic efforts. In alt.sailing.asa Joe Butcher is the best example of 
> this I can think of.
>
>
> Wilbur Hubbard
>
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For once, I don't need to worry.. I never tack.  Way too much work.

I get her on a course, see what I'm heading toward,, and decide that is 
where I wanted to go.

This way, I always end up somewhere, and never ever need to change tacks.

Voila..