Pros and Cons of Sail Training
Sail training is not intended to be a vacation. The sea has always been associated with some element of risk and if one were looking to stay warm and dry, then a cruise ship would tend to be more appropriate. Sail training is about the excitement and challenge of undertaking a journey the natural maritime elements: challenge and adventure tends to be the primary goal of those interested in sail training.
Space is limited and most accommodation offers little privacy. Dormitory style living is most common with several people sharing a cabin and personal space limited to the area occupied by the individual bunk. For this reason, it is advised that luggage be limited to only what is necessary and carried in duffel bags or soft sided luggage. It may be necessary to practice hot bunking when at sea.
Few tall ships survive without government subsidy, donors, sponsors or rich clientele.
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—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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