why sailing

Let me back up a little about my dad, and give you some background on his passion for sailing. He was first exposed to boating in general on the great lakes where his relatives would invite them often for summer vacation. later his relative, who worked as a purser, would be lost at sea aboard ship caught in a storm on the great lakes.This incident did not deter him. He signed up for scientific staff aboard the Yacht Carnegie. The Carnegie was a 150foot brigantine-rigged sailing vessel. She was specially built nonmagnetic ship, designed and built by Carnegie Institute, for research. It was aboard this ship that his passion for sailing began along with his desire to sail around the world on his own boat. I remember as a child him telling me about sailing on the Carnegie. She blew up in 1929. Gasoline fumes in the bilge ignited.It is hard sometimes to fathom that my dad learned so much from the sailors aboard the Carnegie, but he did and the crew must have been terrific sailors.
His passion was inherited by me-Meg