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Sail Training
If your interested in the ins and outs of Sail Training may we suggest you tap into one or more of the many web sites that are available. They are:
The 17th Edition Directory of Sail Training and Adventure put out by The American Sail Training Association indicates that:
The mission of ASTA is to encourage character building through sail training, promote sail training to the North American public, and support education under sail.
Sail training, like reading, is not a subject in and of itself. It is a means to an end. A medium. An environment. At ASTA they often say that sail training is not learning to sail, it is learning from sailing. From the ship, from the sea and perhaps most importantly, from yourself.
When you visit the Port Alberni Tall Ships Festival July 11 & 12,2008 talk with the Captains and crew and ask them how sail training has provided them with intensive personal development and life experience. Ask them to speak to you of the total reverence for life and nature they possess.
Sail training truly teaches the qualities of stewardship, resourcefulness, pride, humility, bravery, strength and grace, and an appreciation of history and teamwork ability.
You owe it to yourself to come and see the tall ships. More so you owe it to yourself to be amongst those who are engaged in life through sail training.