Letters
Volume XXVIII, Number 9, April 2009
Real vs Virtual
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Life is too big for a Website: www.48north.com
two-inch screen.
Publishers
Michael Collins & Richard Hazelton
Managing Editor
What’s interesting about the younger Richard Hazelton
set nowadays, is that the more real a
email: richard@48north.com
computer simulation is, read game, the
better they like it. Hmmm. So why isn’t actual reality as interesting
Associate Editor/Race/Current Events:
Karen Higginson
as virtual reality? True, you can’t fly nor be indestructible in the
email: karen@48north.com
real world, and they’d lock you up if you walked around with
a flaming sword, hacking your way through town, but life is so
Advertising Director
much bigger than a two-inch screen.
Michael Collins
I blame it on the whales. When the kids were little and we had
email: michael@48north.com
a long day’s sailing, the kids would go down below and immerse
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themselves in great flights of imagination; making caves out of Cai Weir
the quarterberths, or riding the bucking broncos in the vee-berth
email: cai@48north.com
as we jogged to windward. As they got older their interaction and
imagination fell victim to the hypnotic two-inch screen. We knew
Bookkeeper/Display Advertising
Nathan Rouse
it would take something extraordinary to get them back on deck
email: nathan@48north.com
so we’d cry, “Look, a whale.” That was a big enough event to get
their heads popping out. “Where, where?” they’d ask. “Right over
there, we’d point, they just went under.” After a few minutes, they
Contributing Editors
realized they really weren’t going to see a whale – but, aha, we had
Culinary Cruiser: Amanda Swan Neal
them in the cockpit so we’d now point out the birds, seals, and ask
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them to figure out where we were on the chart.
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The days would pass with nary a whale to be seen, but by
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then they were spending more and more time in the cockpit. Soon,
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for all intents and purposes, they were sailing the boat, learning
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tides and currents, and making the X on the “pirate map”. 48° North encourages letters, photographs,
Opening up the real world to the kids is not only eye-opening
manuscripts, burgees and bribes. Manuscripts
for them, but also renews your own enthusiasm. The stories
should be related to boating issues, instruction,
start flowing, “I remember when…” becomes a common phrase.
or experiences. Materials should be typed,
Little did they know they were creating their own memories and
double spaced and marked with name, address
subconsciously absorbing a way of enjoying the outdoors that
and phone number, or all the above on a CD or
would always be with them. Years from now someone will ask
email. Photos may be hardcopies or electronic,
color or black & white. We are not responsible for
them, “What’s that?”
unsolicited materials. Articles express the authors
“It’s a Pigeon Guillemot.”
thoughts and may not reflect the opinions of the
“Wow, how do you know that?”
magazine. Allow eight to ten weeks for response.
“I don’t know, I just do?”
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We can compete with the virtual world if we can keep the
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kids interested, and to do that they need to be involved. This also whole or part is expressly forbidden except by
is true for adults new to water. Accomplishing even the smallest permission from the editor.
task is rewarding and leads to bigger and better things. It’s our
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