克利伯船员故事第二季（十二）被女儿鼓励参赛的60后水手

2024-06-19 10:38 陈杰 JieCHENClipper201516

A 1960s Sailor Encouraged by His Daughter to Join in the Race
Part Twelve, Season Two, Stories of Ordinary People Sailing With Clipper

前言：笔者作为克利伯环球帆船赛2015-16青岛号大使船员参加了第三赛段南大洋比赛，从南非开普敦-西澳大利亚奥尔巴尼，后于2016-17年为《环球少儿航海》杂志撰写专栏文章《普通人的环球航海》，介绍克利伯参赛船员的故事。2022年青岛号自2005年首次参赛以来第一次收获了赛季总冠军，每一位克利伯中国船员都为之自豪，也让更多人好奇这个环球航海比赛中他们的故事。于是，有了这个《普通人的环球航海第二季》，这一系列，会用中英文两种语言为你介绍克利伯环球帆船赛中国船员们的故事。
茫茫大海为何如此有魅力？远洋水手和你有什么不同？你是不是也可以是他们中的一员去挑战自我、拥抱大海？这些故事会帮你了解帆船，了解他们对大海的热爱。
Introduction: After joining the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2015-16 the writer penned a series of articles for the Chinese magazine, Global Children Sailing about Clipper sailors. With the success of the Qingdao boat winning the Clipper 2019-20 Race in 2022, all the Chinese Clipper crew are excited that there is increasing interest in ocean racing and the people who do it. This is season two of Stories of Ordinary People Sailing Around the World, in both Chinese and English.
Why is the ocean so attractive? What makes ocean sailors different? Could you be one of them, challenging the ocean and yourself? This series tells you more about sailing and a love of the ocean.

通常我们听到爸爸妈妈鸡娃的故事，比较少听到孩子鸡爸妈的。这一期的主人公，出生于1966的马应成马医生，山东航空公司的高级航空医师和飞行员运动健康管理师，康复和整形美容医生，就是这样一位在女儿的鼓励下成为克利伯2015-16青岛号大使船员参加从中国到美国的北太平洋赛段比赛，并在2024年3月克利伯23-24青岛站驾着帆板迎接和欢送青岛号进出青岛港的“年轻水手”。你会好奇他的帆船故事吗？
We often hear stories of children that were tiger-parented, but rarely parents who were ‘tiger-childrened’. The hero of this feature is Yingcheng MA, Dr. Ma, Markus, now 58, a plastic surgeon and Senior Aviation Doctor and Trainer in Sports & Health Management for pilots at Shandong Airlines. He was encouraged to join in the Clipper 15-16 Race in the Qingdao Ambassador Crew for the North Pacific Ocean leg from China to the USA. He was also one of the “young sailors” who rode a surf board to welcome and send off the Qingdao Team boat from the marina in March 2024.
“爸爸你应该试试帆船跨洋过海！”
“Dad, you should cross the ocean by sailing!”

2013年4月5日，青岛籍船长郭川历时137天创造40英尺级单人不间断环球航海世界记录返回青岛港。满面尘霜的船长进港后一头跳进海里游到码头上紧紧抱住妻儿，马医生和夫人、女儿一边佩服着这位航海英雄，一边颇为好奇：大海为什么如此吸引船长？还有谁会经历这般旅程之后还如此能量满满？
In April 2013, Guo Chuan, a Qingdao skipper, finished a record-breaking solo non-stop circumnavigation of 137 days. Despite the ordeal Guo jumped into the water and swam to meet his wife and son waiting on the pontoon. Markus was there with his wife and daughter and he wondered why was the ocean so attractive – and how could anyone have such energy after such a voyage?

马医生一家平素也喜欢大自然，经常外出旅行。2012年，一家人庆祝以优异成绩在新加坡南洋理工大学获得全额奖学金的女儿自驾西藏。一路上雪域高原，雪山冰川、神山圣水、几千年的高大柏树、宏伟壮观的布达拉宫等藏式建筑、珠峰大本营、各种各样的高原动物，当地藏民虔诚地一步一磕头转山朝拜的虔诚深深地打动着他们，即使有高原反应也不影响他们臣服在纯净美丽的大自然面前。
Markus’ family love nature, travel and adventure. In 2012, they drove to Tibet to celebrate his daughter Esther winning a full scholarship to Singapore Nanyang Technological University. They enjoyed the snowy mountains, the high plateau, the glaciers, holy mountains and waters, thousand year old Cypress trees, the magnificent Tibetan buildings like Petal Palace, the base camp of Mount Everest, and wild animals in the high plateau. They were also touched by the local Tibetan people who walked and knelt down every other step to show their worship of the mountain god. Even suffering from altitude sickness, they were hugely impressed by the beauty of such pure nature.

图片 2: 2012年7月自驾西藏旅游，22日抵达珠峰脚下 Photo 2: July 2012, the drive to Tibet and arrival at the foot of Mount Everest
2014年11月，他们一家三口和朋友一家两口去新西兰、澳洲自驾旅行40天，在大堡礁潜水，看鱼群在缤纷的海底世界游弋，在皇后镇蹦极发祥地体验蹦极，乘直升机飞上库克雪山……大自然中野性的呼唤又一次震撼着他们。
In November 2014, Markus’ family travelled with another family to Australia and New Zealand on a 40-day self-drive trip. They went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, watched fish running in the colorful deep ocean, bungee jumped where it all began, flew over Mount Cook by helicopter……The wildness of nature impressed them yet again.

图片3: 2014年11月澳洲一行五人自驾旅游前往凯恩斯大堡礁潜水 Photo 3: November 2014 Australia, A group of five drive to the Great Barrier Reef, diving in Carins

图片 4: 2014年12月自驾新西兰旅游抵达牧羊人教堂，乘直升机抵达库克雪山 Photo 4: December 2014, driving in New Zealand, Church of the Good Shepherd, Mount Cook by Helicopter

他告诉家人朋友们看到国内在招募克利伯环球帆船赛2015-16青岛号大使船员，那个比赛可以和帆船一起去到大洋深处，见识大自然不同的美。
Hearing about the recruitment campaign for Clipper 15-16, Markus told friends and family that he was thinking of joining to see a different type of nature in the furthest oceans.

他女儿马琳璐立刻建议爸爸参选，并认真地建议爸爸补习英语，增加胜算。
His daughter, Esther,was very keen he should join but politely suggested he would need to improve his English to be selected.

第四军医大学毕业从军18年的马医生身上保留着军人雷厉风行的特点，他直接在新西兰提交了申请，也开始和女儿一起计划提高英文的办法，立刻开始实施。
Markus graduated from the PLA Air Force Medical University and served for 18 years, but still had the instinct of a soldier to act quickly. Even before leaving New Zealand he put in his application and worked with his daughter as to how he could improve his English.

旅行结束后回到学校的马琳璐发动自己身边的同学朋友特意为他取了一个英文名字 Markus，告诉他这音里有他的姓马，也有勇敢有力量的意思，很像常年坚持运动的他。Back in school, Esther invited her schoolmates and friends to come up with an English name for her father. They settled on Markus. Ma was delighted with the name which sounds similar to his family name and means brave and strong and reflected how he had continued to keep fit since leaving the army.

2015年1月，马医生虽然英文还有点磕磕巴巴，但他以不逊于年轻人的体能和综合能力，顺利通过几轮筛选，成为那一届青岛号大使船员中年龄最大的一位。
In January 2015, Markus successfully passed several rounds of selection with his physical fitness and overall ability at least as good as younger candidates, but his English was still a bit weak. He was to become the oldest member of the Qingdao Ambassador Crew.

图片5：2015年4月18日身着2015-16克利伯环球帆船赛新制服首秀 Photo 5: April 18th 2015 wearing the official Clipper uniform for the first time

培训
Training

马医生感觉自己虽然入选，英文的实际应用水平和其它年轻大使船员比起来还是有一些差距，于是从到英国参加培训起就特别认真，不懂的就虚心请教。
Despite being accepted Markus felt his English was not as good as other members of the crew, so he worked hard during the UK Clipper training and was prepared to ask for help when he did not understand something.

图片6: 2015年4月在英国朴茨茅斯参加克利伯大帆船培训Level 1 新水手和亲和幽默的女船长 Emily和严谨的大副Bob Photo 6: April 2015, Clipper Level 1 training in Portsmouth, UK, with new sailors, female skipper Emily and first mate Bob

风浪中，他多年来一直坚持锻炼的身体素质优势慢慢显现出来。当年轻人前前后后开始晕船需要休息的时候，他一直生龙活虎，还会念着这位那位总帮我讲解，忙前忙后帮大家分担他们暂时不能承担的工作，在队里颇得好人缘，也会忘记其实他是大使船员中从年龄上，最应该被大家关心的人。
In the wind and waves, his physical strength maintained over the years through exercise gradually came out. When younger crew got seasick and needed a rest, he was always energetic. He would help others with their unfinished duties, thinking this or that person always helped me during training. He was popular in the team. They seemed to forget that as the oldest Ambassador crew member, maybe they should look after him.

图片7: 2015年5月英国怀特岛克利伯大帆船培训Level 2 暖男船长Quntun和他的水手们 Photo 7: May 2015 Isle of White, UK for Clipper Training Level 2 with skipper Quntun and crew

马医生从军的时候坚持锻炼自不必说，转业后也是日常卷腹、平板支撑、徒手爬绳、冬泳、健身房、自行车、台球、滑板、乒乓球练习不断。哪怕到了船上，也常常利用侧支索之类的嗖嗖地徒手爬一小段，就像中国古诗句中形容边塞军人“狡捷过猴猿，勇剽若豹螭”，总会惊艳大家，外国队友们甚至问他是不是用中国功夫来爬绳？
All the years after leaving the army, Markus had continued to keep up a serious daily fitness regime like crunch, plank, rope climbing, winter swimming, gym work, cycling, playing billiards, skateboarding and table tennis. Even when he was on the boat, he liked to use the shroud to do rope climbing. As an ancient Chinese poem describes a soldier in far-away places, ‘Clever and agile like monkeys and apes, brave like leopards and the dragon.’ he always impressed everyone. Some foreign teammates even asked him whether he used some technique of Chinese Gongfu to do rope-climbing?

图片8: 2015年5月英国怀特岛克利伯大帆船培训Level 3 海盗船长Gareth和他的水手们 Photo 8: May 2015 Isle of White, UK for Clipper Training Level 3 with Skipper Gareth and Crew

2015年4月Level 4第四级培训前，各船队都准备在船上挂英国国旗表明船只身份以备培训中穿过英吉利海峡到达法国海域。其他船队纷纷穿戴好安全装备爬上桅杆操作。青岛号船长Igor把旗帜给了马医生。
Before the final Level 4 training in April 2015 every team was to hang the British flag on the front of the boat to proclaim they were British as they trained off the French coast. While other teams put on full safety gear to climb the forestay, the Qingdao skipper gave the flag to Markus.

图片9：2015年4月25日普利茅斯 2015-16克利伯环球帆船赛船员分配见面日 Photo 9: April 25th 2015 Portsmouth, UK Crew Allocation Day for Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2015-16

“仰手接飞猱，俯身散马蹄”，马医生徒手轻松爬上前支索，在空中停住，一手支撑一手把旗帜的两端系好，再轻轻松松下来。甲板上的队友们齐齐地鼓掌喝彩，别的船也被吸引，纷纷传开了“青岛号有一个中国队员会中国功夫。”
‘Raise your hand to meet the flying spear and bend down to scatter the horse’s hooves.’ as is the Chinese poem. With his bare hands, Markus climbed the metal wire. Hanging the flag, holding on with one hand he climbed down easily. All the crew on the deck applauded him. Other boat crews saw this and noted that ‘A Qingdao sailor could do Chinese Gongfu.’

图片10: 2015年5月英吉利海峡克利伯大帆船培训Level 4 学霸船长Igor和他的水手们 Photo 10: May 2015, English Channel for Clipper Training Level 4 with Skipper Igor and Crew

还没热闹一会儿，码头和克利伯办公室的工作人员一起来了：“你们船上刚刚有船员违反码头安全操作规定，是怎么回事呢？”这里没有任何借口。青岛号船长Igor郑重地保证说会以后不会允许任何船员冒险。马医生心里很内疚，给船长添了麻烦，可也很委屈，这徒手爬绳，练了多少年了呀，在陆地上比这个高比这个难的绳索组合都没有系过保险绳也都很轻松呀，怎么在码头上就变成危险动作呢？看来文化差异也需要多学习。
But the excitement was short-lived. The Clipper office staff were summoned by the marina management: “We heard that your crew member broke the safety rules of the marina. What is this?” There was no real excuse. Igor, the Qingdao skipper promised that he would not allow anyone in the team to take such a risk in future. Markus felt guilty in causing problems for his skipper, but was upset he could not do it again, as he had been practicing rope climbing for many years. The ropes he climbed on land were more difficult than this and he never used any safety equipment. How could such easy climbing be dangerous in the marina? It seems there still were cultural differences to be understood.

图片 11: 2024年3月24日爬上青岛号大帆船后支索庆祝2023-24克利伯环球帆船赛荣归母港并参加蔚蓝群岛号大帆船青岛海域巡游活动 Photo 11: March 24 2024, climb up the shroud of Qingdao boat to celebrate the returning of home harbor by Clipper 2023-24 and join in the parade in Qingdao

结束培训回到青岛的马医生更加刻苦地学习英文，也常常和已经升入美国卡内基梅隆大学读研究生的女儿远程交流请教。
Markus went back to Qingdao after the training and worked hard to improve his English. He also sought guidance from his daughter who was by now doing her postgraduate study at Carnegie Mellon University, in the USA.
图片12: 2015年4月-5月顺利完成克利伯大帆船培训部分花絮 Photo 12: April-May 2015, some photos after successfully completing Clipper training
带着童年女儿的画横跨北太平洋
Crossing the North Pacific Ocean with a Picture Painted by His Daughter When a Child

2016年3月，当马医生开始他的青岛-西雅图北太平洋之旅时，马医生特意带上了一幅女儿九岁时候画的画。那是2001年，庆祝当年北京申办2008年奥运会成功，青岛成为奥运会帆船比赛主会场。
When he began his Clipper journey across the Pacific in March 2016, Markus took on board a picture by his daughter when she was nine years-old. Painted in 2001, it was a celebration of China winning of right to hold the 2008 Olympics, when Qingdao was the venue for the sailing competitions.

图片13:2016年3月20日携带女儿9岁完成的帆船画开始克利伯2015-16跨越北太平洋赛段Leg 6比赛 Photo 13: March 20 2016, start of the Clipper 2015-16 race across the North Pacific Ocean, Leg 6, with a picture painted by his daughter when aged nine

3、4月份的北太平洋寒冷异常，风浪不定，风暴来的时候会让人怀疑船会不会撑不下去被浪劈垮了。
It is extremely cold in the North Pacific Ocean in March and April with uncertain wind and waves. When the storms come, you wonder whether the boat is strong enough to survive.

从中国出发后没几天，马医生在风浪中当值妈咪班，负责全船后勤。太平洋可不总是像它的名字一样太平。很多船员都晕船倒下，马医生是为数不多还能坚持工作的，于是他首先给甲板上坚持工作的船员们烧水沏茶以示支持。
Soon after leaving China, Markus was on “mother watch” - doing the house-keeping chores – in a period of very rough weather. The Pacific Ocean is not always the tranquil sea the name implies. Many of the crew were unwell and Markus was one of the few still able to work, so he made cups of tea and gave emotional support.

图片14：2016年 3月20日从青岛奥帆中心出发开始跨越北太平洋 Photo 14: March 20th 2016 Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, the start of the journey to cross the North Pacific Ocean

之前煮好的饭没人吃，他先把它们都倒进海里，开始清洗堆积在水槽里的脏碗杯子。然后在颠簸倾斜的船舱里把所有餐具安全归置到储物格里，这通常两个人彼此配合的工作如今一个人作起来颇不容易。
The food that had been prepared was uneaten so he threw it overboard and set about clearing the sink of dirty dishes. Despite the rolling and pitching of the boat he managed to stow the crockery safely – usually a two-person job – without any breakages.

查看舱里伙伴们的健康状况，他接着清洗洗手间、污水箱，记录航行日志。终于坚持不住头晕目眩需要躺下休息了。
After checking on the health of his fellow crew members he cleaned the toilet, checked the water tank and wrote the log. By now he was himself feeling unwell and needed to lie down.

艰难脱下沉重的救生衣、航海靴、航海服，爬上二层的Bunk床板，钻进冰冷的睡袋。寒冷潮湿的睡袋和狭小的空间让疲劳的躯体很快进入梦乡，四个小时后又要重复以上的工作。如今睡眠是恢复体能的第一要素。
Peeling off his heavy-duty sailing gear, life jacket and boots he climbed onto the small second level bunk and into his sleeping bag. The cold, wet bag and the small space meant he fell asleep quickly, to do it all again in four hours. For now sleeping was the priority.

那是马医生在整个培训和比赛期间唯一的一次晕船，“看来晕船主要的原因是疲劳和劳累，”他告诉自己，以后就好建议晕船的队友们了。
That was his first and only such episode of seasickness during the race. “Being seasick is a combination of tiredness and too much work,” he says, advice he offered others in the crew.

图片15：2016年4月1日跨越北太平洋赛段遇到大风暴 Photo 15: April 1st 2016 the storm in the Pacific

接下来的航行，每个班组基本上只能保留3个人干活儿，甲板上通常一个掌舵，一个调帆，一个每小时下舱记录航海日志，同时机动、陪舵手聊天，防止舵手夜晚疲劳中睡过去，每小时轮换一次，4小时下班休息。马医生他们带着两层厚手套也抵不过刺骨的寒冷，往往一个小时掌舵之后手指发木完全没有感觉，风雨交加的夜晚，寒冷和饥饿中舵手掌控着孤独的大帆船艰难前行！
In the days following, each watch team could manage to have just three people to work the boat. When on deck there was one to helm, one to trim sails and one to write the sail log and make sure the helmsman did not fall asleep through tiredness. Each hour of the four-hour watch they would change roles. Even with wearing two pairs of thick gloves against the cold, the helmsman's fingers became totally numb in an hour. Steering the boat in such conditions-feeling cold, lonely and hungry-demanded real effort.

每天结束甲板工作回到船舱里，会有妈咪班的全环船员Caroline给大家新鲜烤好的蛋糕，喝一杯热巧克力，让胃先暖和起来，再用手捂一捂，一个船员形容是"世界上最幸福的时刻了"。然后赶快把潮湿的手套都放在船舱发动机上固定好热烘干以备下一次值班。
When they finished the deck work on this evening and got back to the cabin, Caroline - a circumnavigator who was on Mother watch - had baked a cake. The deck crew drank hot chocolate to warm themselves holding the cup in both hands, in what one person described as "the sweetest time in the world". Later they put their wet gloves on top of the generator to dry, before the next watch.

马医生记得4月1日的那个晚上，五六十节的风速（约时速90-110公里），船长Bob Beggs发出缩帆指令，可谁都听不清楚，他自己当时在中舱靠近一个绞盘的位置，只能死死地抱住绞盘，也尽量不让自己的手被缠绕以免受伤。甲板上的每个人都用短的那根安全带牢牢地固定住自己，守住自己的位置。
Markus remembered the night of April 1st when the wind speed hit speeds of 50 to 60 knots (between 90 and 110 Km). Skipper Bob Beggs asked the team to reef the sails (reduce the sail area), but no one could hear him clearly. He was in the cockpit close to one winch, holding on as tightly as possible without getting his hands caught, for fear of losing his fingers. Everyone on the deck was tied on and dared not move.

主帆帆杆远端在风浪中拖拽，整条船彷佛要被撕裂的感觉，船体超过四十五度的倾斜在狂风巨浪中咆哮，舵位上两名舵手死死卡住舵轮任凭风浪撕扯，全体船员在惊慌失措中固位抗争，四个多小时候的同舟共济，时间仿佛凝固了。
The end of the boom was trailing in the water with the boat keeling over at 45 degrees. It felt like the wind was tearing the boat apart. It took two crew to hold the wheel to keep the boat on course. The crew were scared, struggling for four hours together, like time was frozen.

风浪稍微小了一点的时候，全体船员费了九牛二虎之力才把帆缩了两节，彼此感叹大自然母亲的惨烈。狂风巨浪给大家上了生动的一课，敬畏自然之心油然而生，深感远洋比赛是挑战而不是征服，以及Skipper提前预判和决策的重要性。
As the wind and waves abated, the crew took to reefing the sails while appreciating the strength of mother nature. They understood the ocean forces at work and that the race was as much a competition against the elements as a race against the other boats - and the role of the skipper was to make good decisions.

最难的时刻过去之后，船上恢复到正常，马医生把女儿画的那幅帆船画拿出来看看，也把它带上甲板，带到船的不同位置，分享着跨洋过海的感受，彷佛女儿在给爸爸加油助威，父女俩一起去完成这航行。
As the crisis passed the regular pattern of life on board resumed. Markus took out the picture painted by his daughter, taking it on deck and to different parts of the boat, sharing his feeling of crossing the ocean, feeling his daughter cheering him on, encouraging him to finish the journey with her.

一个挑战过去，新的挑战又来。
But as one challenge passed, there was another.

船上的淡水净化器坏了，尝试修没有成功。船长Bob让大家清点了水箱里的存水，只有300L，前面估计还有2周的时间，船上有18个队友。于是船长宣布全船进入节水模式，每人每天只有1000毫升水的用量，包括饮用水和洗漱，除了做饭用淡水，其余洗碗全部用海水。大家苦不堪言，虽然理解这是唯一的解决办法，但也忍不住情绪低落。
The desalinator, a machine to make fresh water from sea water, was broken and efforts to fix it had failed. A check on the fresh water tank showed only 300L-demanding rationing for the 18 people on board, with two more weeks sailing. So the skipper announced that each person could have only one liter of fresh water for drinking, washing and cooking, and that dish washing could use only sea water. Although not an easy decision to accept the crew knew it was their only option, but still they felt depressed.

马医生省着喝水，自己的配额尽量不用完，给大家留点余地。队友们都开玩笑说马医生是骆驼，现在进入沙漠了，咱们也试试。笑闹中船上的气氛会略微轻松一点。
Markus didn’t drink his share and tried not to use up all his quota to help others. The crew joked that he was a camel and now that they were in the desert, they should try to be like him. Joking relaxed the atmosphere on board.

好在一个星期以后，净化器被船长和一位职业是工程师的船员修好，危机解除。
Before things got really bad however the desalinator was fixed a week later by the skipper and an engineer member of the crew. Crisis averted.

大家这才开开心心地看海里游弋的海豚、伴随着巨浪盘旋飞舞的信天翁和海燕，感慨自己节水模式下的艰难，也由衷地佩服动物们和大海的相处之道。同时青岛号也在跨洋过海中经过了国际日期变更线，船员们开心庆祝他们又多赚到了一天。
Soon they were able to enjoy watching the dolphins jumping and swimming alongside the boat, the albatross and storm petrels flying above the ocean waves. Compared with their own issues over fresh water, the crew marveled at the way the birds and mammals lived their lives owning their environment. Around this time Qingdao crossed the International Date Line and the crew celebrated that they had just gained another day!

好日子没过几天，船上换上的2号球帆Code 2在夜间航行中被缠绕在了后支索上，在风中凌乱打结，越缠越紧，形成一个鼓包在后支索上打转，尽管派了一个船员爬上桅杆去尝试解开绳子，却怎么都解不开，只好放弃。
But good things did not last. During one night the Code 2 spinnaker (a large sail used when running in front of the wind) got caught up, twisted in the shrouds (lines that hold the mast). Even after a crew member had scaled the mast to save the sail, it had to be abandoned.

这打结鼓包的2号球帆就这么缠在后支索上，劈劈啪啪地拍打着，嘟噜嘟噜地来回旋转着，似乎在给他们抗议和警示。
This twisted and bulb-like sail was there on the shroud making loud flapping noises and kept spinning around noisily. It seemed like both a protest and an alarm.

一周之后，就在大家都快习惯了这声音的时候，后支索被磨断了从空中掉下来，还好前甲板没人，没有损伤。这是被打结鼓包球帆反复磨损造成金属疲劳后的断裂，大家看着这风浪的力量，损毁的帆船，人困马乏的团队，心里对这茫茫大洋里接连不断的磨难越发担忧。
After a week, when everyone was getting used to the sound of the flapping sail, the top back shroud broke. Luckily there was no one on the front deck and no one was hurt. It was metal fatigue caused by the continuous wearing from the spinnaker against the shroud. Everyone looked at the power of the wind and waves and the damaged to the boat. Already exhausted, the crew became anxious about these and the other challenges of the vast ocean.

图片16： 2016年4月2日-16日跨越北太平洋中间遇到的困难和挑战 Photo 16: April 2-16 2016 the difficulties and challenges when crossing the North Pacific Ocean

终于，远远地能看到雪山，海里有了大鲸鱼舞动的尾巴和喷起来的大水柱，船上一片欢呼：“Land！Land！（陆地陆地！）”轻松和愉悦感快速地弥漫在船上。大家相拥祝贺，眼里泪花飞溅！
Finally, they could see snowy mountains in the distance and the tails and water spouts of whales nearby. The whole team was cheering: ‘Land! Land!’ The relaxed and happy mood quickly spread over the boat. They hugged each other and some burst into tears.

进入美国水域，船长示意侧支索升起美国国旗：克利伯环球帆船赛最漫长的北太平洋赛段终于跨过来了！
As they entered US waters the skipper said to raise up the American flag on the side shroud: the longest leg of Clipper across the North Pacific Ocean was over!

图片 17：2016年4月18日跨越北太平洋赛段完成，抵达美国西雅图Bell Harbor 码头 Photo17: April 18th 2016 finishing the crossing and arriving at Seattle Bell Harbor Marina

4月18日，离开青岛航行29天以后，克利伯船队抵达西雅图，马医生的夫人特意前去迎接，女儿给爸爸连线祝贺说“从此老爸成为我们家最帅的人！”
On April 18th, after a 29-day crossing from Qingdao, the Clipper teams arrived in Seattle. Ma’s wife was there to welcome him and his daughter called to congratulate him: “Dad is the most handsome guy in our family from now on!”

图片18： 2016年4约20日西雅图水族馆颁奖聚会及部分海湾巡游花絮 Photo 18: April 20th 2016 Seattle Aquarium The Award Giving Ceremony and parade
女儿身边的那些同学朋友，当初参与给马医生选择一个最合适的英文名字的年轻人们也都赞不绝口：“马叔Markus真棒呀！比我们年轻人厉害！”
His daughter’s friends and schoolmates who joined in the campaign to choose a suitable English name for him were not hiding their praises: “Markus, Uncle Ma is so brilliant! He is much better than us young people!”

马医生说这段跨越太平洋的旅程受益颇多，星辰大海，无尽自然，总要探索过才会懂得，如同那句诗“一自经沧海，方知有大观。”
Despite the troubles and challenges of the ocean crossing, Markus says he learned much from his voyage across the Pacific, setting nature in the raw. Just like the poem ‘Once you crossed the ocean, you would know there is huge world.’

赛后的马医生和女儿
Markus & His Daughter After the Race

完赛后的马医生重返工作岗位，继续航空医师飞行员健康管理和急救航空医学教学培训任务。
Markus went back to work after the race, continuing training pilots in health management and emergency aviation medicine.

能成为飞行员的个个都有过人之处，又见多识广，多多少少也有点心高气傲，不太好管理。马医生的课，主要帮助他们持续提高体能、BMI管理，有氧和无氧运动，坚持良好的生活习惯，降低健康风险，尤其是心脑血管疾病风险，以延长他们的飞行寿命。
Those who work as pilots must have something special about them. They have seen a wider world than others and are often proud and arrogant, and not easy to manage. Markus mainly trains them to keep improving their fitness level and weight management, using aerobic and anaerobic exercises so that they live well to reduce their health risk especially for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

这些比马医生年轻很多的学员们，看着他总是轻轻松松给他们示范各种体能训练动作，自己反而很多时候都做不到同样好，自然而然心里多一些佩服和尊重。
These much younger students looked to Markus to demonstrate the training exercises, which they could not manage as well as he does. They gave him more respect.

马医生结合自己的克利伯经历，和他们分享大洋深处的美，克利伯队友们哪怕到了60、70岁，也可以凭借健康的身体去冒险。学员们越发有动力，也更愿意在课堂内外和马医生轻松愉快地交流和探讨。
Markus shared his own Clipper experience with the pilots describing the beauty of the ocean and the hope that Clipper members would still be fit enough to take part when they were over 60 or 70. This encouraged the students to train and share experiences with Markus, both in and out of class.

除了飞行员，马医生接受青岛帆协邀请成为“帆船进校园”活动教员。这项青岛特色的帆船推广活动从2006年开始，一直深受学校、孩子和家长欢迎。敬畏自然，热爱海洋，保护海洋，传播帆船知识，让更多青少年参与这项运动。青岛号大使船员中15-16的刘明玥、17-18和19-20的郑毅以及23-24的王子祺都是因为从小学起参加“帆船进校园”活动开始接触爱上帆船的。
Alongside the pilots, Markus was also invited by the Qingdao Sailing Association to work as a trainer for the ‘Sailing for Schools’ program. This has been a special sailing campaign in Qingdao since 2006. Much welcomed by schools, children and their parents, it aims to encourage a love of the ocean and for more children to go sailing. Qingdao Ambassador Crew like Mingyue Liu of Clipper 15-16, Frankie Zheng of 17-18 and 19-20, Ziqi Wang of 23-24 all started sailing through this program.

图片19：2016-2024 参加青岛市帆船进校园培训授课活动 Photo 19: 2016-2024 Qingdao the Sailing Into Schools training program

马医生在克利伯的经历中，深感帆船运动是一个真正融入大自然的运动，在大自然中接受挑战，在变化莫测的海洋中和团队协作。“每一次出海都是挑战，这对完全解决身心问题，尤其对青少年压力其实是一种更积极的应对方式。”他说，“孩子们越早爱上帆船就会越受益。”八年来，他一直很乐意和孩子们分享自己的航海经历，用轻松愉快的方式影响他们。
From his Clipper experience, Markus feels strongly that sailing is a sport that enables one to fully merge with nature, to take its challenges and work closely in a team in the very changeable ocean. “Every time you go to sea, you have an adventure, which creates new ways of dealing with physical and mental problems, especially for young people,” he says. “The earlier children start sailing, the more they benefit.” For the last eight years Markus has been keen to share his sailing experience and teaches in a relaxed and happy way.

8年间，马医生爱上了更多水上运动，从2017年起开始在青岛尝试帆板，每天练习，刮风下雪也不例外，短短七年时间里把自己练成高阶玩家。当年唐代诗人李白在《侠客行》里形容到“银鞍照白马，飒沓若流星”，如今他在大风大浪中也能自如穿行，自由滑行，他觉得自己越发有侠客的样子。而他每天清晨伴着日出在帆板上踏浪而行的飒爽英姿成为众多青岛摄影爱好者最乐于记录的青岛美景之一。
Markus took up sailboarding in Qingdao in 2017 and trains everyday, whether it is snowing or windy and he has become very proficient. Back in the Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Li Bai described in his poem, Swordsman’s Legend, that “his silver saddle brightens his white horse and he is as quick and charming as a shooting star”. Now that Markus could freely surf through the wind and waves, he feels himself like an historic swordsman. Every morning, his sporty image is on the sailboard as the sun rises over the sea, making him a favorite subject for local photographers.

图片20： 2017-2014 帆板运动部分花絮 Photo 20: 2017-2024 Markus windsurfing

他的女儿，也在大洋彼岸的卡内基梅隆读研期间，去南美看世界杯比赛，去亚马逊探索热带雨林，去非洲见识动物大迁徙……一家人总是其乐融融地分享各自的精彩，彼此祝福。
His daughter, while she was studying in Carnegie Mellon University, travelled to South America for the World Cup, explored the Amazon tropical rainforest, and went to Africa to enjoy the animal migration……The whole family would always share their adventures.

“父母之爱子女，则为之计深远。”其实子女对父母的爱，也不例外。
“If parents do love their kids, they will make long-term plans for them.” But actually just as in the Chinese saying, the love from children to parents is exactly the same.

于是马医生，一边在青岛同步着女儿看世界，一边继续坚持着自己的英文学习，每天听英文视频，阅读英文书籍，课堂上多讲英文，也鼓励年轻人们多学多练英文，不管是工作，还是自己旅行，玩帆船，都可以交流得更好，更享受。
So, Markus, on the one hand, explored the world together with his daughter in Qingdao, on the other hand, he is still studying English by himself. He watches English language videos, reads books in English and tries to speak more English in his class. He also encourages young people to keep learning and practicing English so that they will learn more and communicate better, no matter whether for their work, or travel or to go sailing.

2026年，下一届克利伯比赛青岛站，马医生依然会驾驭着帆板去迎接青岛号进港。那会是克利伯赛事第30年，和青岛合作第20年，马医生自己会是年轻的60岁。
In 2026, when the Clipper race teams arrive in Qingdao, Markus will welcome the boat into the marina by surfing on his sailboard. That will be the 30th year of the Clipper race, the 20th year for its co-operation with Qingdao, and Markus will be a young 60-year-old.
图片21： 2024年3月24日帆板迎接克利伯2023-24冠军船只蔚蓝群岛号和季军青岛号荣归青岛奥帆中心码头 Photo 21: March 24th 2024 Qingdao windsurfing to welcome the Clipper 2023-24 Championship boat, Our Isle and Oceans and the third place boat, Qingdao
*《普通人的环球航海故事》往期故事回顾：* Stories of the past issues: please follow the author to read the past issues:
克利伯船员故事第二季（十一）气象大学生的帆船旅程
克利伯船员故事第二季（十）辞职参加克利伯比赛的海上工程师徐濛濛
克利伯船员故事第二季（九）御风而行，广交天下朋友的宋筱文
克利伯船员故事第二季（八）被帆船改变的人生 A Life Change by Sailing
克利伯船员故事第二季（七）侠骨柔情的爸爸水手杨国峰 Story of Guofeng YANG
克利伯船员故事第二季（六）漫画水手李冰
克利伯船员故事第二季（五）用帆船作职业生涯“间隔年”的工程师吕翔
克利伯船员故事第二季（四）空杯心态拥抱帆船的“大力”水手张珊
普通人的环球航海故事第二季（三）误打误撞开始航海的侠义福将罗小刀
普通人的环球航海故事第二季（二）从小播下航海梦一路成长的麦公子
普通人的环球航海故事第二季（一）： “青岛号上可以没有大副，但不能没有Frankie”—记最年轻的青岛号环球船员郑毅
英国红酒商人的航海故事
软件工程师的航海故事
德国工程师的环球航海故事
全能爷爷安德鲁
一对母女的航海故事
莎奶奶的环球航海故事，续篇
莎奶奶与大海的故事
熊猫女孩的南大洋奇妙之旅

*关于克利伯环球帆船赛：克利伯环球帆船赛（Clipper Round The World Yacht Race，https://www.clipperroundtheworld.com）是全球最有影响力的环球航海赛事之一，首届赛事于1996年举办，每两年举办一次，比赛线路途经六大洲，全程共40000多海里，完成整个赛程需要近一年时间，每届参赛人数近700余名。赛事欢迎航海爱好者及无航海经验的人士报名参加，通过四周严格的赛前培训后，在专业船长和大副的带领下完成环球比赛。截止目前，全球已有6000余人、中国已有近130人通过参加克利伯环球帆船赛，完成了他们环球航海的人生梦想。
*About ClipperRound The World Yacht Race (https://www.clipperroundtheworld.com): The Clipper Race is one of the biggest challenges of the natural world and an endurance test like no other. It started in 1996 as a biennual event. It's a 40,000 nautical mile race around the world crossing six continents in under one year with around 700 people joining each race. Becoming a crew member is open to both experienced sailors and novices. Every selected applicant must pass a rigorous four-week training before joining a crew led by a qualified skipper and first mate. To date, nearly 6,000 people from all over the world including some 130 Chinese nationals who have enjoyed the Clipper race and fulfilled their dreams of crossing oceans and circumnavigating the globe.

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注：本文根据与主人翁的访谈写成，文中图片、视频来自于克利伯官网及马医生，英文编辑Geoffrey Davies 他将作为克利伯船员于2026年3月随赛事船队到达青岛，特此感谢。文章如需转载或引用，请注明出处，欢迎联系作者获得授权。*
Note:This article is based on the interviews with Markus, and the photos and videos in this article are from the Clipper website and Markus, Geoffrey Davies helped with editing the English version and plans to be in Qingdao on board a Clipper boat in 2026. Thanks. If you would like to use or quote from this article, please make reference, or contact the author for permission.
修改于2024年06月19日