AMERICAN
SAILING
Summer 2005
THE JOURNAL OF THE R ASSOCIA TION
AMERICAN
SAILING
FEATURE STORY: ASA CELEBRATES RELEASE OF JAPANESE TEXTBOOK
T
he American Sailing Association
and over 150 guests celebrated
the release of ASA’s first Japanese
textbook, Inner Sailing, on March 22,
2005, in Osaka, Japan. The black-tie
event, held at the Ritz Carlton in Osaka,
was hosted by famed Japanese sailor, Yoh
Aoki, and Kazi, the publisher of the largest-
circulated Japanese sailing magazine.
The introductory sailing book, written by Yoh
Aoki with numerous contributions from Dr.
William Payne, teaches beginning keelboat
Inner Sailing book release party in Osaka, Japan. L to R: William
Payne and Yoh Aoki (writing team), with guests Kyosuke Tomoda,
sailing through basic coastal cruising.
Charlie Nobles, and Miyuki Furutate.
Mr. Aoki was the ASA’s first truly on his experiences as a Zen master in Japan. His
international instructor evaluator. He holds lessons, both on the water and in the new book,
the world record for circumnavigating the stress learning sailing by feel rather than rote. By the
globe in the smallest sailboat, the 21-foot completion of Mr. Aoki’s Advanced Coastal Cruising,
ketch Ahodori 2 that he built himself at each of his students can command the helmsman to
the age of 20. Mr. Aoki’s unusual trim the boat properly while blindfolded!
approach to teaching new sailors is based
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SAILING LIFESTYLES • STEVEN AND AMY ROBERTSON
W
hen we moved back to Austin, Texas, in 1997
I was determined to learn to sail. It was in this
same location, 15 years earlier that I had my
first brief sailing experience on a Sunfish. Our new
neighborhood was less than a mile from Lake Travis, the
largest of the Highland Lakes. With this 60-mile long
lake essentially in our backyard I knew there was no good
excuse not to take the plunge. My new job and having
our second daughter took up much of our time over the
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