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off Oslo on August 12, and the ships will remain in Oslo from August 13 to 17. South American and United States and Canadian ships will gather in Hawaii in May, to race to Vancouver in British Columbia, and thence cruise to San Francisco and other West Coast ports. In 1979, a sail training race from Annapolis to Newport has been suggested, to precede the Annapolis-Newport yacht race. This and other events have not yet been firmed up. In 1980, there may be a Transatlantic Feeder Race starting July 4 from an American East Coast port, to take part in an international race starting August 15 from Amsterdam to the Skaw. This might be followed by a race starting August 25, from Karskrone to Talinn, Esthonia, in conjunction with the 1980 Olympics. In 1981, a race from South America to Norfolk will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of the Virginia Capes, which preceded and made possible the final defeat of a major British army in America at Yorktown, so ending serious military operations in the American Revolution. Dates and arrangements have yet to be set for this major event, but it is firmly committed and entered on the international calendar which governs the comings and goings of the Tall Ships that awaken and inspire people of all lands. the American role in these undertakings is governed by the American Sail Training Association, headquartered at Eisenhower House, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI 02840. The Tall Ships Races are only the most visible aspect of the Association's work, which is directed to getting more young people to sea to learn the disciplines of sail, and those who wish to play some part in this are invited to be in touch.
When Will the Nations? A few years back, the U.S. Coast Guard's Eagle went to Germany on three weeks' notice, because West German Chancellor Brandt had asked President Nixon to "send the Eagle" -a ship born, incidentally, in Germany. In the White House, no one knew she existed. The Eagle was not reckoned to be "cost-effective" in terms of training Coast Guard cadets, and her continuance had been continually threatened. But she has survived, and she is today the only major American sailing ship in continuous use for sail training. Nowadays no one questions her usefulness. She is off to England in May, to take part in the Queen's Fleet Review. A new sense of what is costly and what is effective may be creeping into the economics that keep her sailing. There is now an awareness that she carries a message that goes beyond the few hundred young people who sail in her each year. We wonder when the governors of the nations will begin to count the cost of military and economic wars, and when the societies of the different nations will begin to respond to the questions of citizens about the effectiveness of technologically victimized ways of life. Western man, having over the past few centuries discovered how to multiply and feed itself, may begin in the next few to think of what it's all about, and may in a new self-awareness (a thing Speer called for, after his years of reflection in Spandau) look to such ships as the Eagle to symbolize and to a degree embody the hard learning we must do in our voyaging through time. Cost-effective? Look at the trifling burden on an economy that does not quite know what it should produce, or what for-and look at the challenge to be accepted, the learning to be gained in sailing an Eagle. She is flag bearer for the voyage of discovery we must make. w
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