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The popular University
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already filled up
By Holly Stark
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If you remember only two
things from his class,
Roger Bailey hopes it’s
how to tack and gybe.
When you move onto the
next level, you learn “not only
how to tack and gybe, but to
tack and gybe well,” said Bai
ley, the 39-year-old Outdoor
Program supervisor and sailing
instructor.
The sailing class, offered by
the University and River
House, an outdoor pursuits
program run by the City of Eu
gene, is filled to capacity each
term it is offered. This term is
no different. According to the
Office of the Registrar, all three
classes were at capacity by
March 3.
“It’s really exciting that the
classes are filling up so quick
ly,” Bailey said. “It’s always a
pleasure to teach college stu
dents — our staff really dig it.”
Bailey, who started sailing as
a teenager on Lake Michigan,
has been teaching classes in
Eugene for the past 12 years
and was the South Eugene
High School crew coach from
1986 to 1991.
“I’ve taught a lot,” Bailey
said. “People are pretty suc
cessful in sailing.”
The classes are held at Fern
Ridge Reservoir with trans
portation included in the $173
cost of the class.
This is where tacking and
gybing comes in.
“Most people come out of
the Sailing I class pretty com
petent,” Bailey said. “The goal
for the beginner level is basic
skills — how to rig a sailboat,
terminology, equip
ment, boat parts and
I the two basic skills of
sailing: tacking and
gybing.”
Tacking, Bailey ex
plained, is sailing up
wind, while gybing is
sailing downwind.
Tacking is “like
trying to cross-coun
try ski uphill,” Bai
ley said.
The more advanced sailing
class is offered to a maximum •
of four students, and the goal is
to “gain more of a mastery of
the basic techniques,” Bailey
said.
, , But it’s not just the technical
side of sailing that Bailey
thinks attracts people to the
sport.
“I think a lot of romanticism
is attached to sailing,” he said.
“It’s part of history and litera
ture. It’s been around for cen
turies — that’s pretty cool.
“I think sailing is really fun.
There are a lot of different op
portunities — you can day-sail,
sail on the weekend, race.
Some people I know live on
boats and sail around the
world.”
It’s too late to sign up for the
spring term classes, but Bailey
said those who haven’t regis
tered are in luck. There’s a
Sailing I class offered summer
term where “we get the
strongest winds,” he said. “It’s
the best for sailing. We’ve had
great fun out there.”
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