Page 16 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 78

16 Issue #78 May 2019 www.sportsenergynews.com

A Homage To Our Fathers

By Christine Ouellet along coastal areas, sailing and
fishing were the domain of fathers
ccasionally, when the wind and sons. Sailing and fishing
Otakes us where we don’t want
abilities were learned on deck and
to go and we are upset that we knowledge in navigation and reading
might scrape the bottom, we show the weather was taught by a senior
a not so nice side of ourselves and
sailor, somebody who knew “the
people close to us remind us of the how”. There was an element of
famous phrase: “You are just like
handing down from the older person
your father”. We then blame our hot to the offspring who would be able
temper on our genetic patrimony, and to perpetuate the trade, earn a living
I would like to honour our fathers
and more importantly, to come back
who transmitted their sailing passion.
to port safe and sound.
If some traits of our personality are I think that a similar approach still
inherited, what about other things and exist today, whether it be recreational
activities such as sailing or fishing our
sailing or fishing. Fathers still take
parents liked and as we are exposed to their sons and daughters on the water
them, we turned to like them as well.
with them and unconsciously, they
Could it be a genetic inheritance, or nurture an emerging passion in the
is it because that particular skill and hearts of their off springs. Learning
attraction for an activity evolves and Gabrielle Maheu with Uncle Oliver Maheu Photo Submitted
to tame the sea, battle strong waves,
develops under a parent’s nurturing harness the wind, next to a father who happiness. Armagnac named Mer Vent. Jean
wing? For example, learning how to
seems, in the eyes of a young child, Recently, while I was in Vendée, Le Cam started to sail on a canoe
sail is knowledge base which can be very much in control of the situation, France, I heard Jean le Cam, a famous equipped with a parasol, as he was
learned in manuals and on you-tube, must be quite exhilarating and it must Vendée Globe contender who just not allowed to use a sail. He could
but only up to a certain point. Does it fold the parasol when he needed to
be a good thing to do. When the young completed his 4th Vendée Globe race
take more than textbooks to develop child sees the joy in his father’s eyes, and 5th Cape Horn crossing, telling a escape detection from his “protective
the passion for sailing, like parental parents”. For his most recent Vendée
his grin after a successful tack, he journalist how he started to sail with
nurturing and coaching? probably think that his mastery of the his father when he was very young, Globe race, he named his IMOCA 60:
In traditional families established sea, which gives his father a strong at age 5, on their family’s boat, an Finistere MerVent, in memory of his
sense of power, has to be the way to Continued on page 17

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