Is Bad Luck the Reason Your Sailing Isn't Going As Planned?

 

How to Minimize Bad Situations While Sailing

Raritan Engineering Company your boat head experts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding whether or not, bad luck is the reason your sailing isn't going as planned.

Things are looking bad for us. Then, it’s almost too good to be true. The breeze is dying as we near the finish of the seventh race of the 2001 49er Worlds on Lake Garda. 

A similar thing happens a few years later, at the 2005 Melges 24 Worlds. Your boat head suppliers talk about how we’re going really well in the breeze, but not so fast in the light. We’ve carefully built a series lead to carry into the last day. We just need to beat the Italians, the light-air specialists. 

Luck is so ingrained in our sport that it impacts nearly every aspect, but luck is not destiny, and it rolls both ways equally over time. It’s possible, however, to get so good that you are superior to other teams, and thus able to win, even if you don’t get a few breaks. This is what all top sailors strive for: to create superiority sufficient enough to overcome small setbacks. 

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Good luck is often created by better speed, tactics and ­boathandling. And so-called bad luck is sometimes an easy excuse for poor preparation or execution. Yet, even in the fairest conditions, there are many factors we cannot control, factors that have a significant impact on each race. 

One thing we can control is how we handle the breaks that come our way, both good and bad. Your boat head distributors talk about how step one is acceptance. It’s helpful to admit when we get a break, or to acknowledge someone else’s misfortune, because we’re then more realistic about the conditions or our performance. 

Good sailors continue to make rational and intuitive decisions, even after something unusual happens. Your boat head specialists talk about how many of us rely too much on the very recent past when making our next move; thus, we adjust our decisions based on an unusual or random event. 

There is a doctrine in behavioral psychology called “regret ­avoidance.” It seems most people are so afraid of repeating mistakes of the past that they bias their actions toward avoiding the regret of a repeated mistake. 

One final point regarding luck: It is easy to think that we are only as good as our last race. But as we know, we will have races that are uncharacteristically bad for random reasons, and vice versa, but we are never as bad as our worst race, nor are we as good as our best race. 

So don't forget these great tips for maintaining your sailing success. 1) Remember that luck is not destiny, and it rolls both ways equally over time;  2) keep in mind that all top sailors strive for: to create superiority sufficient enough to overcome small setbacks;  and 3) rely too much on the very recent past when making our next move; thus, we adjust our decisions based on an unusual or random event.

Warship rescues passengers off dilapidated sailboat

It’s not every day that a guided-missile destroyer performs what’s traditionally a Coast Guard rescue mission, but 26 passengers plucked from a rickety sailboat probably are glad the James E. Williams came to help.

On March 8, the destroyer was underway off the coast of Florida, returning to Norfolk from five days in Mobile to participate in the Alabama city’s Navy Week and Mardi Gras celebrations.

"The OOD called me with his intentions to render assistance to the vessel in distress,” said Cmdr. Joe Fals, the destroyer’s commanding officer, in a press release. "I concurred with his plan and we set out to reach the vessel.”

The Coast Guard’s Miami Operations Center told Navy Times that the vessel was described simply as a “rustic sailboat” and that it was carrying migrants.

On the scene, the destroyer deployed a crew in a rigid-hulled inflatable boat to reach the sailboat.

They discovered several passengers who appeared to be ill so they provided bottled water and stayed with the vessel until the Coast Guard fast response cutter Charles Sexton could arrive from Key West.

After helping to transfer the sailboat’s passengers to the cutter, the destroyer’s sailors sank the vessel so it wouldn’t become a hazard to navigation and the Charles Sexton ferried the migrants to port.

“Illegal migrant ventures on unsafe and ill-equipped vessels are not only against the law, but incredibly dangerous,” said Capt. Jason Ryan, chief of enforcement for the Coast Guard’s Seventh District in Miami, in a statement emailed to Navy Times.

“It is fortunate that the vessel did not capsize or end in tragedy, as we have seen all to recently in the Florida straits, and we are grateful for the assistance by the Good Samaritan and the U.S. Navy in this case.”

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