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Even with the thought in mind of being crazy and pile up more work besides stress and up coming exams, I started right away with the work. It is still fun! To feel comfortable in a group of kindred spirit, who have all the same idea - the 'trimaran'. Motivated, because everyone of them gives something in order to make the project become a full success. For the editorial work and web site I decided to write a sailing-encyclopedia. Because if someone wants to sail, he/she should know some basic words. How easy and still very extensive. Did you ever dream of terms you worked on all day with the computer? How extensive and strange the language of sailors is. But with a little bit of practice you easily know the right phrases soon. Certainly I have tried to down-size some of the complex phrases, but because of a short amount of time it was not possible for all of them.
With light speed we published our first web sites in the internet. How fast you can build something new, using words and some creativity. Almost like a cook-book: take a group of fascinated people, a bunch of new ideas, inspiration, sociability and mix it all up - ready is the trimaran.
Being absolutely delighted by the imagination our trimaran 'The RelationShip' could sail unmanned and could be build at the University of Applied Science FH Furtwangen
- a great idea.
Furtwangen, a idyllic place in the middle of the Black Forest, which would be better place for a movable cuckoo clock than a trimaran, like the few critics say. Well, in some point the critics are right, a sailing boat does not fit in the Black Forest. But do not we want fulfill a dream? Don't we want to draw some attention at us? Don't we want be different from the usual crowd? Even if the critics state negative things gives it us the incentive to say:
" We make it ! "
Don't we have all dreams we want to accomplish? Let's just take our trimaran for example. We already have done some stuff! We realized a dream, we inspired people, we almost completed the trimaran and the last modifications are about to be done. How good fits the line from Nietzsche: 'You need to have a little chaos, in order to give birth to a dancing star.'
Wendy Y. Zwick
zwick-wy@fh-furtwangen.de
10. December 1997
Thank you:
At this point I want to say thank you to all
who supported me with the information research
or the improvements for the sailing encyclopedia.
Editorial office annotation:
Translated by Martin Siefert
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