Sailing Club
Club Corner
Issue date: 10/6/08 Section: Perspectives
What is the purpose of your club?
To give Wharton students an opportunity to indulge in one of the most relaxing and invigorating sports out there. Often sailing is regarded as an elitist, hard to access activity. We aim to break that perception and allow everyone to experience what truly is an amazing sport.
What's your club's most popular event?
It's a tie between our participation in the MBA's Cup hosted by Boconni in Porto- fi no, Italy, where we compete against 22 business schools from around the world and the Spring Break cruise we organize to the Caribbean.
What are the challenges that your club faces?
1.Convincing people that getting seasick isn't as common as they think it is
2.Getting people to believe that sailing is not difficult and can be learned in an enjoyable fashion
3.Yes, sailing is a sport ;)
Any particularly interesting tales or accidents involving sharks or pirates?
Fortunately, we haven't had any dangerous encounters with sharks or pirates. We had a couple of near collisions when we had 8 boats racing each other during the Learn to Sail program we ran down in Annapolis last Spring and one incident of pirating the Wharton flag at 1am in the morning during the Caribbean Sailing Venture. For those in the know - I'll just say La Vida!
What life lessons can be learned from sailing?
When the wind dies, picks up, or changes, all you can do is adapt. I think when sailing you can be totally in control and totally out of control at the same time. You have to work with the wind at all times. So, you learn to be patient, you learn to be flexible, and you learn to be vigilant. You must respect the forces of nature in what quickly becomes a give and take relationship.
To give Wharton students an opportunity to indulge in one of the most relaxing and invigorating sports out there. Often sailing is regarded as an elitist, hard to access activity. We aim to break that perception and allow everyone to experience what truly is an amazing sport.
What's your club's most popular event?
It's a tie between our participation in the MBA's Cup hosted by Boconni in Porto- fi no, Italy, where we compete against 22 business schools from around the world and the Spring Break cruise we organize to the Caribbean.
What are the challenges that your club faces?
1.Convincing people that getting seasick isn't as common as they think it is
2.Getting people to believe that sailing is not difficult and can be learned in an enjoyable fashion
3.Yes, sailing is a sport ;)
Any particularly interesting tales or accidents involving sharks or pirates?
Fortunately, we haven't had any dangerous encounters with sharks or pirates. We had a couple of near collisions when we had 8 boats racing each other during the Learn to Sail program we ran down in Annapolis last Spring and one incident of pirating the Wharton flag at 1am in the morning during the Caribbean Sailing Venture. For those in the know - I'll just say La Vida!
What life lessons can be learned from sailing?
When the wind dies, picks up, or changes, all you can do is adapt. I think when sailing you can be totally in control and totally out of control at the same time. You have to work with the wind at all times. So, you learn to be patient, you learn to be flexible, and you learn to be vigilant. You must respect the forces of nature in what quickly becomes a give and take relationship.
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