Shiva : God of Death

I am supposed to write this post a long back (years back), better now than never.

Went to Baltimore Get Away Sailing for Team Regatta competition in the year 2005 that was organized by my prev client Dennemeyer. That was the first time I went for sailing and the team in getawaysailing were very friendly, courteous and professionals.

Bill, the Senior Team Building Instructor, gave a warm welcome speech and explained to any novice doubts. Being there for the first time, I felt very comfortable and gained confidence. There was a short training session before the start of competition and to increase the adventure, it was very windy and later started raining (actually pouring) on that day.

During the traning session we had a different captain, he taught me good tips and I managed to grasp it quickly. But as it was too windy, the rope got twisted and we had to bring the mainsail and jib down and  the captain and my team members acknowledged me for the efforts I took and it was definitely one life time experience for me.

 Later for the competition, Bill was the captain, we came 4th in the competition (only 4 teams participated..haha). I, for sure know, if me/others in the sailing boat gave full control to Bill, we would have won the competition, but it was a learning curve and may be we came last but it was total fun and felt like winners.

 The best of story is yet to come, well the photos were taken by one of getawaysailing team members and unfortunately I think none of my colleagues got back to them to collect the photos later. After a year - yes - after a year, I thought lets try to contact getawaysailing team to see whether they have those photos by any chance. I got a prompt response from Dick Mead, for sure, we do not come across much people like him in our daily life. This is the snippet of my mail to him around Nov 2006.

“Hi Dick Mead,

  I do not have enough words to thank you for this. Thanks a lot, this is just not some photos rather a good memory - which you just got us. If anytime I sail in Baltimore, it will be in getawaysailing. I will also share the photo gallery to my other office friends…”

He sent me the photos through email and during Christmas, he burnt a CD and sent it my way with photos in it. At that point, it was not about customer satisfaction or any other factor to improve business, it is the humanity touch without expectations and the time he had taken to do this, once again, thanks for your time from myside.

Overall, if you would like to have fun - I would highly recommend you to visit Get Away Sailing in Baltimore.

Cheers,

Shiva