Sailing is an unusual sport. Unlike most others, you can't hurry it. It's a very tempo giusto kind of thing, where your speed depends entirely on the wind (or the tide or paddle if you're unlucky). The kind of notions of space it evokes are very relative, or better still, process oriented. If you took an absolute view of space, and in contrast to your average GIS spaces (e.g. Euclidean, Topographic or Network etc), you might imagine a surface of wind as the space upon which you tack and gybe at each instant of time. From a relative perspective, perhaps that confluence of wind and sea processes create a space for me to sail.

I've just passed my RYC level 2 certificate in dinghy sailing, so beware if you're floating about the Firth of Forth...I'm a terrible sailor ;)

10/08/07