克利伯船员故事第二季（六）漫画水手李冰

2023-03-11 10:38 陈杰 JieCHENClipper201516

Comic Artist Sailor Bing LI
Part Six, Season Two, Stories of Ordinary People Sailing Around the World

这一期的水手画的一手好漫画，他笔下的队友寥寥数笔，形象鲜明、性格突出，连我没有参加这一届比赛的人都能看的出来画的是谁。
The sailor of this session is good at drawing cartoon pictures. The comic sailors drawn by him are very vivid and powerful, yet in very few lines. People like me who have not joined in the race of this season can easily tell which one he is drawing.

这身怀绝技的漫画水手大名李冰，昵称大宝。
This magic comic artist sailor is named as Bing LI, and nicknamed as Dabao.

这些被大家交口称赞的漫画作品是他在参加完克利伯环球帆船赛船员培训以后回到正常工作生活，利用间隙时间根据自己对船上生活的记忆和一些照片画出来的。随手发到培训船员的微信群里，结果被队友们“惊为天人”，广泛流传。于是多了一个“漫画水手”的昵称。
These well-welcomed comic pictures were drawn in his spare time when he got back to work and life after the Clipper training, containing all his memories about the boat life and photos taken then. He shared them in the WeChat Group of Clipper training sailors which everyone loved and gave high praises to. They also helped spread his work around, which got him the nickname: comic artist sailor.

缘起
Starting of the Journey

漫画水手其实原本不是水手，也不是画家，而是从小练习排球，从校队一直练到体校、09年从北京体育大学毕业后去了青岛体育局从事青少年体育推广工作。
Interestingly, Bing is neither a sailor nor a painter, but a volleyball player since young. He was a member of the school volleyball team at young age, then joined in the athlete training school for professional training. After graduation from Beijing Sport University, he joined Qingdao Municipal Sports Bureau to promote sports with younger people.

虽然是地地道道的青岛人，但一直专注陆地运动，哪怕05年克利伯环球帆船赛首次进入中国，以及08年北京奥运青岛奥帆中心的帆船比赛如火如荼，作为青岛人的他天天耳濡目染，但好像还真没有觉得这运动和自己有关联。
Even though he is a native Qingdao-er, his focus has always been about sports activities on land, regardless of the immense popularity and fame surrounding the Qingdao Sailing Centre with the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2005 and 2008’s Beijing Olympics.

机缘来的时候，你想握住它吗？
Are you ready to jump if opportunity knocks?

13年，李冰被借调到2013-14克利伯环球帆船赛组委会，配合赛事礼宾接待工作。接下来的15-16届克利伯赛事，他负责每支赛队的欢迎、欢送仪式和在青岛的活动，17-18届去了竞赛部。
In Bing’s case, it came not just once in 2013 when he was tasked with helping out with reception for the Clipper Race13-14, but thrice in 2015 and again 2017. For 15-16, he looked after the welcome and departure ceremonies in Qingdao for each race team and their local activities. For 17-18, he was in the race team.

这一届一届的赛事工作下来，他看到自己因为对帆船运动不了解，在安排工作的时候总时不时觉得缺了一点点什么制约着自己做得更好，于是他就开始琢磨如何可以弥补这块短板。
With the race oragnisation work year after year, he felt the bottle-neck at work as he did not understand sailing. He began to think how he could make it up.

在筹备2019-20克利伯比赛青岛号船员招募和赛事准备工作的同时，他也鼓起勇气向领导提交了申请希望可以同样参加船员选拨深入了解、体验克利伯，日后组织竞赛工作的时候会更人性化一些。
Bing felt it was a sign to take up sailing so when he was again tasked to be in the organization team to recruit the Qingdao team for the Clipper Race 2019-20, he seized it. He persuaded the leaders that he could be a better organizer if he could understand the bigger picture of the race.

帆管中心和领导们给予了积极的支持。李冰详细研究了船员要求，开始狂补英语。那三个月，工作之外的时间都花在英语上了。结果功夫不负有心人，顺利通过几轮选拨，成功入选晋级培训资格。
The leaders and the administration center of sailing sport supported him. He studied carefully about the selection criteria and began to learn English with great effort. He spent almost all his spare time in English for that three months. The hard work was paid off, he passed several rounds of selection and won the opportunity to join in the training for Clipper sailors and race.

英文英文，国际比赛远洋水手的第一关
English, English, the First Barrier for International Ocean Race Sailors

李冰大大地舒了一口气，安排好工作和其他青岛号大使船员一起抵达英国开始比赛前必须的四轮培训。
Bing now took a deep breath, arranged the work and began his Level 1-4 Clipper trainings in UK together with other Qingdao team crew.

三个月的英文恶补到了船上还是发现不够用。
He felt his English could not cope with the boat life even after that three-month hard work.

第一轮培训开始，队友们对他很好，常常会帮忙翻译沟通一下。一天队友通知大家工作时间没有太清楚，他把时间弄错了，上甲板晚了一点，船长很不高兴。李冰自己不好意思解释，干脆不说话只想埋头干活儿，船长更不开心了，数落他不交流不沟通。
When the Level 1 training began, other crew members were nice to him and helped him by translating from time to time. However, a miscommunication about the new working time occurred and as a result, he arrived late. This made the skipper very unhappy. Bing was apprehensive to explain his predicament and just continued working silently. It seemed that this made the skipper even more unhappy about the perceived lack of communication.

回想上船之后的队友见面会，船长让大家介绍自己，李冰如实交待自己来自青岛，是组委会工作人员。船长立刻毫不客气地接过话去：“你别以为你是组委会的，就一定会通过培训！”
Bing recalled the time of their first meeting onboard when the skipper asked everyone to make a self introduction. Bing honestly said he was from Qingdao and that he worked for the race organization team. The skipper caught his words immediately, ‘Don’t take it for granted that you would pass the training as you are working for the organization team!’

李冰懵了：“不是让我如实说自己来自哪里干什么的吗？哪错了？难道我是组委会工作人员就不会努力学习吗？”
Bing felt puzzled, ‘Didn’t you ask us to introduce ourselves? Is there anything wrong to tell the truth? Wouldn’t I work hard to pass the training as I work for the organization team?’

这次迟到加上上次的自我介绍，大宝觉得船长可能对自己会有意见了。
With the lateness this time and the introduction issue at the first meeting, Bing felt that the skipper might thought something about him unhappy.

英文确实是一个比较大的障碍。李冰听不懂的时候，难免会问问旁边的队友，希望确保自己理解正确，结果船长说：“我讲话的时候，不要交头接耳，有问题等我说完再问。”
English is one of the big barriers for international sailors. When Bing couldn’t understand, he would naturally asked people around him to make sure he got it. But the skipper told him, ‘When I am talking, don’t gossip. You can ask question after I finish.’

培训发的船员操作小册子上有很多英文看不懂，他就在工作间隙中拿出手机查英文词典，船长说：“休息的时候不要总是玩手机！”
The training manual provided by Clipper Training was only in English. He couldn’t understand well and used his phone to look up the English dictionary when he was not working. The skipper said again, ‘Don’t always play with mobile when you are off work!’

横竖都不对，大宝颇为郁闷。

Since that first meeting, nothing has ever got right for Bing and so he felt very down.

这一轮培训，是他第一次真正体会船上的生活，晕船、呕吐，各种不适，什么都来了，从身体到心灵都备受考验。
For this level 1 training, it was his first time to be on boat and he suffered with seasickness, throwing over, and all sorts of discomforts. It was really a tough experience for him both physically and psychologically.

但是从小当运动员练就的那股子不服输的劲头在一次次挫折中被无限地激发出来，“我就一定要通过这一轮培训，不能被你看扁了。”
However, his training as a young athlete kicked in in the afce of such difficulties. He could maintain his strong motivation amidst such problems as he believed he would pass this level 1 training.

每天晚上结束白天的培训回到码头在船舱里睡觉前，李冰就去把在另外一艘船上参加培训的青岛船员郑毅Frankie拉过来，一一问他白天学的什么意思，背后的道理是什么、怎么表达，卯足了劲就是要搞懂。
Every night before bed on boat, even after the sailing training of daytime, Bing would still head out to another boat to get Frankie, another Qingdao crew member, to ask him for a revision on the training earlier. He tried all he could to understand what was taught everyday.

结果第一轮培训结束考核的时候，船长很诧异地发现李冰顺利通过了。
When the Level 1 training was over and the test went on, the skipper found Bing passed it with big surprise.

他说，“没想到你能过，我从一开始就觉得你够呛，不错不错！”
He said, ‘I didn’t think you could pass it. I thought it wouldn’t be easy for you, but you did it. Good!’

李冰开心极了，那种从零到一的突破感特别棒，也就信心满满地开始第二轮培训。
Bing was really so happy. The feeling to break through zero to one was so great that he joined in the following Level 2 training with full confidence.

这次的船长很好，凡事鼓励，不再吹毛求疵。
This time, the skipper was great, encouraging everyone about everything and no longer so critical.

经过第一轮“魔鬼训练”的李冰对自己迷之自信，积极主动，不再惧怕英文。
Bing was very confident after passing the Level 1 crazy training. He got very active on boat and had no fear about English.

结束这一轮培训的时候，船长说：“怎么评价你呢？技能不错，积极，干得不错，但是我说的和你做的不一样。你的英文再加强点就更好了。”
Bing was very confident after passing the Level 1 crazy training. He got very active on boat and had no fear about English. When the training finished, the skipper told him, ‘How could I comment about you? You got good skills, active and did not bad, but you just did not do the same as what I told you. It would be better if your English is better.’

第三轮培训，船长是曾经的英国海军教官、曾经中途接任15-16届比赛青岛号船长的Bob，经验非常丰富，就是有点口音，说话不太好懂。甲板上听指令，夹杂着风浪声更困难。
Then the Level 3 training. The skipper was Bob, a former British Navy instructor and the Qingdao Skipper for Clipper 2015-16 in the middle of the race. He got rich experience but with some accent. It was not easy for Bing to understand his instructions especially when it was on the deck, with strong wind blowing and big waves crushing.

他记着第一轮培训关于英文的教训，把运动场上训练“肌肉记忆”的感觉运用过来，直接观察船长的手势和脸的朝向，从这个去理解执行他的口令。
He remembered the experience at Level 1 about English, and his memory muscle as a young volleyball athlete kicked in. He observed closely Bob’s gestures and his interactions with the surrounding enabled Bing to understand what was going on despite the language handicap.

就这样超越语言的交流方式，居然最有效，船长在这一轮培训结束的时候，给了李冰一个很高的评价：“虽然语言不通，但是完全没影响交流，工作很高效！”
It was such non-verbal communication that made effective. Bob gave Bing high comments after the training, ‘Even though there was language barrier, there was no communication gap with him. He could work efficiently.’

这一轮下来，李冰发现在帆船上的工作和生活中，自己的理解力大大提升。不再恐惧英文，也更享受船上的生活。
After this Level 3 training, Bing found his understanding for the work and life onboard was improving greatly. He did not have any fear about English and began to enjoy the life on boat much better than before.

海上磨难
Trouble on the Sea

第四轮培训，按照惯例是各赛队船长带领赛队船员驾驶比赛船模拟比赛穿越英吉利海峡到达白崖 The White Cliffs。
At the Level 4 training, they followed the tradition to have the mock race to the White Cliffs by crossing the British Channel with all Clipper teams.

青岛号顺利拿下第一，就在终点线附近等待所有船队到齐以后一起返回。
Qingdao team won the first and waited for the other teams to arrive the destination and then got back together as a whole fleet.

还没吃饭的时候，大暴风雨来了，他们只能在风浪中跑、转，所有队员全都在甲板上拼命折腾，大浪打在甲板上，远远的闪电看上去无情又残酷，又冷又饿，却又无从躲避，只感觉离死亡太近了。
When they were about to eat after finishing, there came a big storm. They had to move and turn during the heavy wind and waves. All the crew members were on deck and worked together hardly. The big waves pushed the deck harshly, the thunders faraway looked cruel and cold, everyone was hungry and cold, but had nowhere to hide. It was just the feeling to get so close to the death.

好不容易从暴风雨的西边到暴风眼中间短暂休息一会儿，看周围电闪雷鸣，只留下对大自然的敬畏。
It took such a while to move from the west of the storm to its center for a little rest. When they looked at the thunders and lightnings around them, they could only feel the fear and respect to the mother nature.

也许绝境中每个人的潜能和团队的力量会无穷地爆发出来，他们调转到暴风雨东边和大部队一起赶回去。
Probably it was the extreme difficulty that stretch out the potentials of everyone and the strength of the team, they managed to turn to the east of the storm and got back together with the fleet.

走过了风暴，也饿过了，只觉得好幸福，回到岸上洗个热水澡暖和过来，活着真好。
Getting over the storm and the hungry, it was only the feeling of luckiness left. When they had a hot shower after getting back to the port and warmed up again, everyone felt so lucky to stay alive.

帆船与陆上运动的不同
Difference between Sailing and Land Sports

四轮船员培训接受完回青岛以后，漫画水手一边画着队友们的漫画，一边不由自主地对帆船运动和自己以前熟悉的陆上运动做起了比较。
After the training for 4 levels and went back to Qingdao, the comic artist sailor was painting the cartoon pictures for other crew members and could not help making the comparison between sailing and land sports he was very familiar before.

陆上运动可以随时终止，身体不适了，异常情况发生了，比赛和运动员都可以随时停下来。
One can stop at any time while doing land sports. When one is feeling unwell, or something unusual happens, both the sports and the athletes can stop at any time.

帆船这样的海上运动不同，尤其是远洋比赛，出发了就停不下来，除非到终点，中间发生问题必须得一船人一起解决，就算中途弃赛要靠岸也得好多天，其间的困难和磨难不一定比坚持到终点轻松。
Water sports like sailing is different, especially for the ocean races. You could not stop easily after departure unless you reach the end. No matter whatever happens during the race, you have to work it out together with the team. Even if you decide to quit the race, you have to hang on for another several days to get back to the land, while it might be not as easy as to hang on to the end.

帆船长航比赛很看人品，船上一起朝夕相处N天，一起分配食物、生病照顾、经历大风大浪、经历生死与共，队友已经变成战友。
Long distance sailing races matches are a good way to judge someone’s personality. A whole team got along together for quite a couple of days. When you share the food, look after the sick ones, get through the big wind and waves, go together for the difficult times between life and death, everyone becomes comrades-in-arms not just teammates.

如果跑一趟船下来，还能是朋友的人就一定是一辈子交心的朋友。
Normally if you joined a long distance sailing together and the friends you made are friends for life.

帆船可能是一个最没有年龄门槛和限制的运动。
Sailing is probably the sport with no age limit.

很多陆上运动到了一定的年龄就玩不动了，但是帆船从5、6岁玩OP小帆船开始，到60、70岁还可以玩得特别好，同样很有乐趣，甚至一家老小一起玩都没有任何障碍。
Many land sports are not suitable for people over certain age, while sailing is good for kids to start from OP at 5 or 6 and also good for those over 60 or 70. The old can still have a lot of fun with sailing bigger boats. It even has no problem for a whole family to enjoy together.

这几年国内发展的如火如荼的家庭帆船赛就是一个很好的例子。在国外就更常见了。

The new popular China Family Sailing Regatta is one good example and it was even more common for foreigners at various ages to enjoy sailing.

帆船可能是一个会让你爱上学习的运动。
Sailing is probably one sport to make you love studying.

在对青少年的运动习惯和学习生活影响的调查中，有一个有趣的发现，帆船玩的好的运动员，学习成绩都不差。
There was an interesting investigation to look at the sports habits and their impact about the life and study for young people and found that athlete who are good at sailing are normally good at study.

大帆船运动很考验船员的大局观和团队合作，小帆船很考验运动员的综合应变能力和临场决断力，都需要大量的各种知识储备作为基础，可能也是因此而促进运动员不断学习。
Sailing big boats need team spirit and cooperation with everyone, while sailing small boats need quick response and decision with changes by yourself. All these need quite a rich foundation of various knowledge, which might stimulate sailors to keep learning.

我们国家第一位奥运帆船冠军徐莉佳就是这样一个典型的例子，一边练帆船，一边学英文，一边读上海交大本科，后来去英国读硕士，一直都在学习而且学得很不错，如今以一口标准的英音进行体育新闻采访，帆船内外都很优秀。
Lily Xu, the first Olympic sailing champion in China, is a good example. She kept learning English while she was training for sailing, and kept study for her bachelor’s degree at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Then she went to UK for her master’s degree. She kept learning all the time and did quite well. Now she is a sports journalist and does her sports interviews with a fluent and beautiful British accent. She is excellent in and out of her sailing field.

这一届青岛号全程大使船员郑毅Frankie也是如此，不断学习，从英文到各种帆船知识，甚至文学、摄影、视频剪辑，内容深度和涉及面都颇为深入。
Frankie, the circumnavigator of Clipper 19-20 Qingdao team is another example. He keeps learning from English to sailing, literature, photography, video shooting and making, all to a deep and wide level.

遗憾
Pity

李冰顺利完成船员培训回到青岛，一边继续工作一边继续等待参加自己的第五赛段比赛。
Bing went back to Qingdao after the training and continued his work, while waiting for his race of Leg 5.

疫情后比赛中断，22年比赛恢复，由于工作安排及其他原因，他很遗憾的没有参赛，就这么与正式比赛失之交臂。
However, he missed it when the pandemic struck. He could not join other races due to work and other commitments when the race resumed back in 2022.

也许，失之桑榆，收之东隅。当这种遗憾从笔端流淌出来的时候，却以传神的漫画表达了对船上生活和队友们的深深怀念，也因此打动了更多人。
Probably, when you lost one thing, you will get another one new. When such pity was expressed through his pens, he painted such powerful comics with deep memory for the life on boat and crew members there. Those comics moved a lot of people.

笔者甚至建议以后青岛欢迎各赛队船长抵达青岛的礼物可以是漫画水手给他们画的漫画作品。肯定会被他们收藏的，只有水手才会懂得水手，才会如此入木三分地刻画出水手的风采。
The writer even suggested that he could draw comics for skippers and give them as the race souvenir when they arrive in Qingdao. They must keep it with great pleasure and proud. Sailors could only be understood by other sailors and painted out such spirit by sailors.

你会愿意有一天，看到这些漫画，并且也作为一名水手，去读懂这些漫画吗？
Would you like to enjoy such comics one day? Would you also like to become a sailor as well to understand such comics?

*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 Clipper Round 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 was started in 1996 as a biannual event. It's a 40,000 nautical mile race around the world acrossing six continents in nearly one year. There are around 700 people to join in each edition. The race is open to sailing lovers and non-experienced ones. Every candidate will have to pass a four-week strict training and then join in each team with a fully qualified skipper and first mate to safely guide the crew. By now, nearly 6000 people all over the world and around 130 Chinese people have enjoyed the Clipper race and their dreams of crossing the ocean and circumnavigation.

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