World Wide Sailing

Sailing is among the oldest and most dangerous occupations in the world. As long as humans have lived near large bodies of water, from major rivers and lakes to the ocean itself, people have been sailors. And as long as people have been facing the dangers of sea, they’ve been inventing and perfecting to lessen those dangers as well as to make fishing, navigation, speed, fighting and defense easier.

The quality and innovation of a civilization’s marine equipment as historically made a huge difference in the dominating of one nation over another, as the ability to master the waters brings the advantage of travel, food, national defense, and trade. Read the rest of this entry »