Sailing - Philosophy For Everyone: Catching the Drift of Why We Sail

Foreword: The Craft and the Mystery viii
John Rousmaniere

The Philosophical Sailor: An Introduction to Sailing – Philosophy for Everyone xiv
Patrick Goold

Acknowledgments xxiii

PART 1 PASSING THROUGH PAIN AND FEAR IN THE PLACE OF PERPETUAL UNDULATION 1

1 Ships of Wood and Men of Iron: Voyaging the Old-Fashioned Way and Seeking Meaning in Adversity 3
Jack Stillwaggon

2 Winning Philosophy: Developing Patience, Inner Strength, and an Eye for the Good Lanes 12
Gary Jobson

3 "Hard a' Lee": Why the Work of Sailing Can Be Great Fun 23
Crista Lebens

4 Solo Sailing as Spiritual Practice: A Phenomenology of Mastery and Failure at Sea 36
Richard Hutch

PART 2 THE MEANING OF THE BOAT THREE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT 47

5 Buddha’s Boat: The Practice of Zen in Sailing 49
James Whitehill

6 Freedom of the Seas: The Stoic Sailor 61
Gregory Bassham and Tod Bassham

7 Sailors of the Third Kind: Sailing and Self-Becoming in the Shadow of Heraclitus 72
Steven Horrobin

PART 3 BEAUTY AND OTHER AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF THE SAILING EXPERIENCE 83

8 What the Race to Mackinac Means 85
Nicholas Hayes

9 Sailing, Flow, and Fulfillment 96
Steve Matthews

10 On the Crest of the Wave: The Sublime, Tempestuous, Graceful, and Existential Facets of Sailing 109
Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Luísa Gagliardini Graça, and José Ángel Jáuregui-Olaiz

11 Navigating What Is Valuable and Steering a Course in Pursuit of Happiness 122
Jesse Steinberg and Michael Stuckart

PART 4 PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL SAILOR 133

12 Do You Have to Be (an) Einstein to Understand Sailing? 135
Sebastian Kuhn

13 Paradoxes of Sailing: The Physics of Sailing and the Import of Thought Experiments 148
John D. Norton

14 The Necessity of Sailing: Of Gods, Fate, and the Sea 164
Tamar M. Rudavsky and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody

15 The Channel: An Old Drama by Which the Soul of a Healthy Man is Kept Alive 176
Hilaire Belloc

Notes on Contributors 180