Sven Yrvind - 81 year old sailor
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:41 am
I came across this sailor's blog of a man who is 81 years old. His name is Sven Yrvind. He was born in 1939 and has been sailing the ocean for most of his life; he's still sailing the ocean's today. He is also a boat builder/designer.
His blog: https://www.yrvind.com/exlex/
His boating manifesto: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploa ... ex_eng.pdf
Some quotes from his manifesto are pasted below. It seems like many of his ideas regarding sailing echo many concepts in ERE.
His blog: https://www.yrvind.com/exlex/
His boating manifesto: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploa ... ex_eng.pdf
Some quotes from his manifesto are pasted below. It seems like many of his ideas regarding sailing echo many concepts in ERE.
Many people misunderstand life. They think comfort is happiness, but unfortunately, that kind of happiness only works in the short term because, like drug abuse and instalment purchases, it burns energy intended for your future well-being. Those who enjoy effortless comfort are constantly deprived of energy. They lose strength, become lazier and fatter, have less good health and are more easily bored.
A prerequisite for saving the world is for you to give up your comfort.
In its ruthless wrath, the sea is cruel, but bureaucrats are now the biggest danger to ocean sailors, as they force manufacturers to build boats according to regulations rather than ocean requirements.
The intrinsic ability of small objects to cope with great stresses is due to the fact that a number of factors favorably interact.
The idea of race rules is that all sailors must have the same chance,regardless of the boat.The rules are meant to prevent a less skilled sailor from reaching the top of the podium because he has spent a lot of money on a faster boat. Therefore, the rules punish the boats' ability to sail fast, meaning that all boats with the same handicap must reach the goal equally slowly. But, the reality is too complicated and boat designers keep finding loopholes in the rules. Despite all the rules it’s still not quite fair, but the end result is badly designed boats.