True Mariner Research Paper

Any good sailor will tell you it is those who travel with the wind are the true mariners. Growing up in a community of power-boaters, I did not understand the meaning of this statement. The idea of sailors considered anything but cheap, arrogant, or poor boaters was foreign. My first powerboat was a dinghy my dad bought me at age 10. At 13, I bought my own powerboat. By 15, I had operated anything from a dinghy to half million dollar yachts.
My first opportunity to sail arose before my 16th birthday. A family friend discovered a 12’ single person O’day from the late 1960s last registered in 1978 on a property he’d purchased. Following a brief crash course on sailboat operation from a power-boater I took the boat 400 yards offshore and back