Almost certainly you've heard of Murphy. Well if it were not so will hear about today. It is thought that Edward A. Murphy Jr, was a U.S. Air Force engineer. His fame began when Edward A. Murphy Jr. did an experiment with rocket-on-track in 1949 to test the tolerance of the human body acceleration (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted on different parts of the body of the subject. There were two ways in which each sensor could be glued to its support, and somebody methodically rode them all 16 the wrong way. Murphy uttered his historic words: "if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way." is a bit 'as it were, in a bad day "can not get any worse!", You're certain that you are left with after few minutes what you just said!
These axioms, delivered by this phantom Murphy, are known as the famous Murphy's laws, and that to excellence is " If anything can go wrong, it will. . Good! In sailing the laws of Murphy, unfortunately, are applicabilissime. In fact, if you are not 100% sure of something, the unthinkable happens. If there is a reason why you can go to the rocks, you're going to rock, if there is a reason to capsize, capsized, or worse, if there is a reason for doing damage to your boat, you will make them!
If you bought a new sail or better, you have a new Gennaker (for the uninitiated is a very thin sail) you just ritoppato with a needle and thread tear that had been created on this sailing, you return from your navigation redo the same work, because that hole will be reformed in the very same point. Obviously there is a law, or rather a constant, for this: "Things are damaged in proportion to their value, so if you buy a new sail, you're very careful. For many vicissitudes successes sailors have been made more appropriate to call them laws Deal: - The wind varies inversely with the number and all'esperien za persons on board (if you're in your first lesson in sailing, you are sure there will be a wind of 30 KNS first two days!);
- For the wind is strong that when you leave the dock, at the point farthest from the port there is always calm;
- If you have four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and preventing, immediately if they prove to be a fifth.
"Sailing is a religion has its rites .... If the weather is nice, the weather is nice. If it is windy, windy. And if there is no wind, expect, is monitored. Are you hungry, eat. You are thirsty, drink. You get to sleep, sleep. It 's a school of patience. "If the wind blows no wind, again if you put in the middle with its laws, but Murphy, who is a school of patience, unfortunately it's true.
Fair winds to all ... I hope!
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