Total hyperbolic baloney, Jeff. You sound like a hysterical girl.
And you sound like someone who doesn't get too many people back for a
second sail.
Teach the lines a few at a time. Start with the most basic ones. Start
with the main halyard, and main sheets. No one needs to know a barber
haul from a foreguy from a Cunningham until later on. Much later on,
for many people, who may never own a boat that includes them.
Musical analogy: Learn to play a C major scale before you start to
worry about flats and sharps, much less pentatonic, myxolydian and
Phrygian scales.
No. The musical analogy is requiring someone to play the scales before
going to a concert.
Teaching someone to read labels is not teaching them anything about
sailing. Jon's students will realize that when they try to sail a boat
that Jon hasn't "baby proofed".
No, Jon's students will realize that sailing can be fun, easy, and
approachable.
All of my clutches are labeled, and the lines are different colors.
Also, most of the dock line are different colors, so that I can always
tell crew to use a particular line. Its absurd to ask a guest to "find
the line that comes from roller furler" when I can tell him that the all
black line is from the furler. Frankly, its impossible to handle a
fully set-up racing or cruising boat without some sort of coding; how
else do you tell the difference between the first and second jiffy reef
line? Spinnaker halyard and jib halyard?
We are not talking about racing, or anything else, Jeff. We are
talking about teaching someone the basics of sailing. It is exactly
the wrong time to be using labels and color codes.
In a previous thread, Jon was adamant that he had to teach his pupils
the wrong terminology for something, because otherwise they would be
confused.
This is just more of the same wrong headed thinking.
My biggest problem is the number of people I can't get onto my boat
for a sail in a 6 month season because there are just too many of
them.
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