ABSTRACT
The first time I took my wife sailing, we capsized. My son and his best friend suffered the same fate when I took them on their first sailboat race. Other examples of my incompetence on the water are best left unreported. One would think that someone with a job of explaining physics could find the secret of good sailing. So far, a familiarity with technical trivia has not produced a champion sailor, and time is not on my side.
