A teen shares why her senior photos weren't "complete" without Adventuress
Wind rustling hair until it is one large knot. Waves
crashing against the hull, rocking you gently. Scents of biscuits and sweet
potato stew wafting up from the kitchen. And hands holding firmly to a jib
sheet, waiting for the call to pass it.
It is a scene I could never have imagined myself in two
years ago. Sailing was just one of those things other people claim as a hobby.
Not me. But when my mother stumbled across the Adventuress online and suggested
the summer camp, I somehow instinctively knew how much I would love it. Within
minutes, I was excited enough about the camp to be willing to pay for it all
myself. And my instincts didn't let me down.
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| Kyra S. |
It’s impossible to describe the feeling of sailing on the
Adventuress to someone who has never done it before. The perfect freedom of the
open water around verdant islands can’t be matched. There is a certain magic in
working together with people you barely know to move something a hundred times
your weight. Any worries you pick up in your outside life stay on the dock when you
climb aboard, and life is wonderfully simple and full of laughter and
satisfying hard work. People you would not otherwise talk to thrice become your
best friends in a week, with bonds that would usually take a year to form.
I went back the next summer, and it was not for lack of
other options. It was because, when I left the Adventuress in Friday Harbor, I
left a part of my soul with it. I couldn't imagine having a better week my
second time, because the first was so perfect. it can’t be doubted that I
did, enough that I teared up during closing remarks.
Sailing can’t be a large part of my life with my busy schedule, but that makes my time on the Adventuress even more special. In just two short weeks, the Adventuress and her crew slid their way into the deepest hollows of my heart, and thinking about the schooner fills me with a craving for more. That is why I am certain to go back for an apprenticeship next year. And that is why, when I found a photographer who would take senior pictures wherever you wanted, the thought of taking senior pictures onboard the Adventuress filled me with an uncontainable excitement.
She is a beautiful boat
with a beautiful mission, and in the last two years she has become my second
home. It is only natural that I would select her as the background to the
portraits intended to be, if you are in a profound mood, a reflection of my
heart and soul. I can’t imagine my senior photos being complete without the
Adventuress.
