Inner sailing
Just before Christmas we went to Japantown. We needed to do a little shopping.
I needed a string for my Shamisen, a restocking of our incense supply, Saki, etc.
I also picked up a book on sailing in Japanese, so the Lady Zen can learn comfortably and understand. I ordered this from Japan via the Japanese book store here. It is called “Inner Sailing”, the name sounded intriguing, maybe I am just reading more into it, since it is written by a Zen Master. It is the ASA official book used in Japan. From the illustrations inside it looks pretty straight forward sailing basics.Whilst there in J-town we went to one of those floating boat sushi bar places.
Lady Z thought it would be like Japan cheap. It was not!
Although not great, it was not bad. Next time we'll go to our regular noodle shop, which is ichiban!!!
posted by Zen @ 6:47 PM
4 Comments:
At 6:12 AM,
Tillerman said…
Hey - someone beat me to that Inner Sailing idea!
I've long been an admirer of Tim Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis (and other spin-off books on the same theme) but as far as I knew nobody yet had written a book on the Inner Game of Sailing. And if I ever wrote a sailing book it would probably have been on that topic.
Damn!
At 9:18 AM,
Anonymous said…
FYI, there's an Isobune in Oakland too, down on College Avenue in the Rockridge district. Not bad but my daughter loves it for the boats.
At 7:40 AM,
anya ahoy said…
Any chance of a review on your new Japanese book, Inner Sailing. As a fellow sailer the title strikes me. Norman s/v Anya
At 5:08 PM,
cloud 9 said…
The title was one of a few suggestions I made to the author as he wrote his text. If you have a first edition you will note that I am listed on the credits page. I dropped off soon after publication. Indeed, the title came to me as a reader of Inner Skiing and an appreciation that the author is, in fact, a Zen Master. At that time he put is principles of Zen to the tiller.
As for a review, it is pretty straight forward. It was written to cover ASA's learning objectives for Basic Keel Boat Certification. Inner Sailing II covers the objectives for Basic Coastal Cruising.
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