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    Charting a Course to Success
    • Dec 17, 2019

    Charting a Course to Success

    The following is adapted from the Founder's Comments at the Sailing Science Center's 2019 Gala, December 12, 2019, on the Ohana Floor at the top of Salesforce Tower. The theme of tonight’s gala is Charting a Course to Success. I want to take that in the broadest sense and talk about the success of our planet. A good navigator knows two things: where we are now and where we want to go. Few will disagree with me that where we want to go is to a sustainable future where people l
    Our First Exhibit!
    • Dec 13, 2019

    Our First Exhibit!

    Danny Beesley showing off the SSC's first exhibit We are extremely pleased to announce the completion and delivery of the Sailing Science Center's first exhibit, the Land Yacht Experiment Table, designed by Paul Kamen and built by Danny Beesley of Idea Builder Labs, at the College of Alameda. Using a table, a fan, and small cars with sails on them, the exhibit demonstrates how boats are able able to sail at different angles to the wind, and most notably, how they are able to
    Traveling Partners
    • Dec 1, 2019

    Traveling Partners

    Last month we looked at goals and how the value in goals is often derived more from the challenges during the journey to attain them than from the attainment itself. This month we look at another aspect of the journey, which is the traveling partners we choose along the way. Twice I have sailed boats from Hawaii to California. Once in 1996 and once in 2000. The trips were substantially the same, but also wildly different. Yes, there were differences in the boats, the weather
     
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