The Pacific Coast is not a very easy coast to navigate, and even coastal sailing is pretty tricky! When I sailed on even a tiny yacht as part of a day cruise there were turns where the boat was practically almost 60 degrees from the water.
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Fair enough. The only sailboat operator I've known was an Atlantic coast person.
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Amusingly, the Atlantic coast of America is also pretty hard to navigate.
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I mean the person I knew had had training, told me about the degrees of licensing and such. I recall she was fairly highly skilled as amateur boat captains go
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I liked how S2 of Lost in Space, after firmly establishing that Dr Smith is a grifter with no useful skills other than social manipulation in S1, suddenly reveals she's an expert sailor Right when they run into all these reasons they need to turn the Jupiter into a sailboat
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It turns out her backstory of being a spoiled rich girl who turned to crime when she was disowned by her parents suddenly gave her a useful skill the omnicompetent Robinsons never had any reason to learn
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feels like this should be a joke in an rpg, where the party's painstakingly minmaxed combat skills constantly take a back seat to random joke skills from their backstories
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They played it pretty well too, like they didn't make it a black and white thing John is a Navy SEAL and does in fact know the basics, since literal sailing remains part of Navy training just in case He just has little practical experience
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Hence Dr Smith's explanation that, again, makes sense but also could be total bullshit "Your husband is competent enough as a rigger but he's no sailor He's too slow, he doesn't know how to read the winds Another surprise like the one we just had and he'll run us aground"
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(Spoiler alert, they run aground)
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But yes sailing is a good example of the kind of skill that seems simple enough on paper but in real life depends on all kinds of tricky intuitive reactions that it's impossible to get good at without years of practical experience Whole cultures were built on being good at it
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Which is why, paradoxically, the easiest way to find people good at it in our society is to look among the spoiled idle rich who have nothing but time to indulge their incredibly expensive hobbies
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Like I'm pretty sure professional fishermen even in very poor countries today still use boats with diesel engines
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