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

2024-04-08 10:58 陈杰 JieCHENClipper201516

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，茫茫大海有怎样的魅力？他们和你有什么不同？你是不是也可以是他们中的一员去挑战自我、拥抱大海？欢迎你，了解他们，了解帆船运动，爱上大海。
Prelude:Introduction: After joining the Clipper Round the World 2015-16 in Leg 3 from Cape Town, South Africa to Albany, Australia, Clipper Round the World 2015-16, the writer penned awrote series of column articles for thea Chinese magazine, Global Children Sailing to introduce stories about Clipper sailors. With the awarding success of the Qingdao boat winning the of Clipper 2019-20 Race Winner by Qingdao team in 2022, all the Chinese Clipper crew are proud that more people are getting increasingly curiousexcited that more people are interested in about the sport and the peoplecrew. Thus, Season TwoThis is season two of Stories of Ordinary People Sailing Around the World, is launching with in both Chinese and English.

to help more people understand the stories behind. Why is the ocean is so attractive? What makes ocean sailors different? Could you be one of them, challenging the ocean and yourself? What is the difference between you and them? Will you be one of them to challenge yourself and embrace the ocean as well? This series tells you more about sailing and the love of the ocean. You are welcome to get to know them, to know sailing and to love the ocean.

这一期的主人公，是当年在澳洲报名自费参赛的海上工程师，克利伯环球帆船赛2015-16第一至四赛段完成半个环球航行的船员徐濛濛，如今在挪威工作，从近10年前的比赛到如今，你会好奇帆船带给他什么吗？The storyprotagonist of this issue is about a marine engineer who signed up for the race in Australia at his own expense. He is Mengmeng Xu, who completed half of the world voyagethe circumnavigation in the first to fourth Legs of the 2015-16 Clipper Race, from England to Australia. This is his story, ten years after. is now working in Norway. Aret you curious about his current life, almost ten years after. having his last race almost ten years ago?
图片1: 海上工程师工作照 Photo 1: Marine Engineer on Work
缘起 The Origin
濛濛原籍沈阳，大学在大连理工大学学习港口航道近岸工程，大三、大四参与学校和澳洲的联合办学项目在澳洲完成学习，2010年毕业后留在澳洲工作，从事海洋石油相关的建设。澳洲的阳光、海滩和众多非常普及的水上运动俱乐部也让濛濛爱上了水上运动，还给自己添置了一艘皮划艇，经常开车带上它去练习。
Mengmeng was originally from Shengyang and did his bachelor's programme degree in offshore engineering at Dalian University of Technology. In his Year 3 & 4last two years of the university, he went to cityAustralia for on a joint degree programme between the university and Australia. Graduating in 2010 hHe stayed there tofor work in the industry of ocean oil construction after he was graduated in 2010the offshore oil industry. The sunshine, beaches and very popular water sports clubs enabled Mengmeng to begain his love with water sportsfor the sea. He bought himself a canoekayak, taking it on his car to use it wherever he could.
for himself and always take it on the car for training.

2011年，他的顶头上司在闲聊中知道他经常玩皮划艇，苦于玩帆船没有队友的他立刻邀请濛濛周末和他一起试试自己的帆船。一个周末下来，萌萌发现老板这艘快50岁的老帆船还挺有意思的，于是常常周末和老板一起玩帆船，也参加当地俱乐部的一些每周赛事。慢慢发现其实帆船玩起来并不比玩皮划艇贵，在澳洲也有很好的帆船文化和各种俱乐部活动帮助大家普及、精进，无论悠闲娱乐还是运动竞技都很方便。

In 2011, Mengmeng’his immediate boss learned through casual chat that he often kayakedcanoed. Being a casual sailor and often short of teammates, his boss immediatelyand invited him to gofor sailing over one weekend in a 50 year-old boat. Mengmeng found it quite interesting to sail in a boat that is half a century old. From then on, he always joined his boss in thefor sailing weekends for sailing and they also took partjoined in some weekly regattas run by the local clubs. Soon he identified realised that it was not more expensive to go sailing than to go kayaking and there was a very good sailing culture withand all sorts of club activities in Australia to help peopleeveryone to to either start up sailing or to improve in sailing.
Where was he working at this time – you need to add the city
No matter whether you want to do it for leisure or for performance, it is very convenient there. 转眼2013年圣诞前夕，濛濛从公司一个在意大利长大的澳洲同事那里知道他要去参加一个叫作“克利伯环球帆船赛”的比赛，从澳大利亚西部航行到东部，是唯一的普通人可以参加的跨洋帆船比赛，立刻有了兴趣，从网上详细了解克利伯赛事，深深地动了心。

On In the blink of an eye, on Christmas Eeve 2013. Mengmeng learned from an Australian colleague, who grew up in Italy, told Mengmeng that he was going to participate take part in a race called the ‘Clipper Round the World Yacht Race’, sailing from Western Australia to the Far East. As the only It is the only cross-ocean sailing race for those without such experience Mengmeng that ordinary people would participate. He was immediately interested and looked up the Clipper website. and was deeply touched but the Clipper’s website.
图片2：第三赛段南非开普敦青岛号启航时刻 Photo 2 : Starting of Qingdao Team at Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
仔细盘算了自己的经济能力，濛濛决定以分期付款的方式报名参加全程八个赛段中的一半，第一至第四赛段，从伦敦经巴西里约热内卢、南非开普敦、西澳奥尔巴尼到位于澳大利亚东北部的艾尔利海滩。他颇为认真地提交了申请，然后接受了组委会给他安排的在线面试，心情忐忑地等待着结果。那段时间，他想，要是能通过，就好好享受一下这段旅程，也许是人生中唯一一次帆船从伦敦到澳大利亚的机会，要是通不过，也没关系，起码试过了。

After carefully consideringreviewing his own financesial status, Mengmeng decided to sign up, paying monthly towards sailing halfway around the globe. His application involved an online interview and after two anxious weeks he heard he had been accepted. and pay by mortgage for half of the eight legs of the whole journey, which would sail fromHe chose to start his voyage in London (UK) sailing to Rio de Janeiro, (Brazil), to Cape Town, (South Africa), to Albany in (Western Australia) and then tofinishing at Arlie Beach, in (Northeastern Australia). A distance of XXXKm and a journey that would take (how long?). In the following year, a large part of his monthly salary went to pay the fees for the race and training and he later resigned from his job to take part.

He seriously made his application, had his online interview with Clipper, and then waited with an anxious heart. If he could pass the interview, he would enjoy this unusual journey, which might probably be the only sailing boat trip from London to Australia. If he could not pass, it could still be fine as at least he tried for this dream.忐忐忑忑大约两个星期以后，他收到来自组委会的邮件，告知他顺利入选，需要在比赛前参加并通过四轮克利伯船员培训。After two weeks of worrying about the result, he got the email notice from Clipper that he was in and needed to join and pass the four levels of training before he could join in the race.在接下来的一年中，濛濛把每月工资中的大部分用来分期支付克利伯的比赛费用，并在比赛前从公司辞职，心无旁骛地投入比赛中。
In the following year, Mengmeng used a large part of his monthly salary to pay the mortgage for the Clipper race and training. Then, he resigned from the company before the race to totally enjoy it.
图片3: 濛濛在甲板上 Photo 3: Mengmeng on Deck
一开赛就直面死亡Face Death Soon After the Race顺利完成四轮培训之后，濛濛在2015年8月31日从英国伦敦开启了自己的帆船海上旅程。却没想到出发没几天，9月5日夜里，船队行进到葡萄牙比斯开湾附近的时候，IchorCoal号上的英国船员Andrew Ashman在夜晚缩帆操作中严重受伤不治而亡。消息震惊了所有12只船队的比赛船员，濛濛觉得自己的后脑勺后面直冒凉风，彻骨的凉。

After successfully completing the four levels of training, Mengmeng started his ocean crossing cross-ocean sailing journey from London, UK, on the 31st ofat the end of August 2015. Unexpectedly, Jjust a few days after setting offinto the race, a British crew member on board the IchorCoalsailor, Andrew Ashman, on the InchCoal was killed when struck by the boom on the back of the head. was seriously injured while reefing on the night of September 5th, when the fleet was sailing near the Bay of Biscay, Portugal. He died during the night. The news shocked the crews entire race of all 12 boat teams including Mengmeng. who felt a bone-chilling wind blowing on the back of his head.这是克利伯赛事从1996年开始以来，第一次出现人员伤亡。虽然任何运动赛事都不会100%安全，但真真实实面对身边队友在比赛中亡故，还是太难以接受。

This wais the first-ever fatality in the nine-year Clipper race history since 1996of the Clipper race and while ocean racing is risky, that someone had died doing what you are doing, was difficult to accept..

Even though no one could guarantee 100% safety for any sports and race, it was so difficult to accept someone among your team who was truly dead in the same race you were doing.船上的氛围不可避免地变得低沉，大家一边等着组委会对这起事故的调查报告，一边在心里默默回顾所有和安全相关的重要原则，其中之一是如论何时何种情况，从帆杆下方经过的时候，必须俯身低头。除了船长给全队鼓气安慰，大家也试着边工作边讨论、分析、排解，总是忍不住的伤感。

The atmosphere on all the boats waswere inevitably gloomy. While everyone was waitingwaited for the accident report from by the race organizersation committee, crews were made all the more awareeveryone was recalling all the safety procedures one by one in mind. One of them is that you must keep your head down when near the boom. whenever you go down the boom no matter when and under what type of situation. The skipper kept encouraging the team, and all the crew were trying to work and discuss, analyse and comfort each other through their sadness.. However, everyone still could not help feeling sad.
图片4：海上航行坏天气 Photo 4: Bad weather sailing in the ocean 大约第三天在甲板上值班的时候，同组的英国队员Andy问大家，“咱们想点开心的事吧。” “如果现在我们回到岸上，你最想作什么？

”Around the third day after the accident, Andy in the same watch The same watch as Menmeng? Who is this Andy? We need his surname to avoid confusion with the dead Andy. Or we don’t need his name at all and we just say how the crew were trying to cheer themselves up…

asked them while working, ‘Let’s think something happy. ’‘What would you do if we are now backing arriving into port?’
全环的英国船员Sophie说想喝酒，Andy说想要在海滩上堆一个沙雕，把自己的女朋友雕出来……濛濛在旁边沉默着，听他们一言一语地问着喝哪种酒呀，喝多少？头发怎么雕？鼻子怎么堆？这些琐碎而点滴的日常，在此刻变得如此美好，如此温暖，谈笑间对未来的期许和力量慢慢地重新回来，驱散了心底的阴霾和担忧。于是大家继续提醒着务必注意安全保护好自己，平平安安完成比赛。

Sophie, the British circumnavigator said she wanted to drink, describing the drinks and how much she would drink.; Andy said he would make a sand castle withand his girl friend and how he would fashion shapes from the sand.. Mengmeng kept silent on the sidestayed silent, , hearing their discussion about what type of drink she would like to have and how many bottles; how he could work out the hair and the nose by sand… Such tiny and common bits of ordinary daily life became so beautifuljoyous and warm in this particularthe moment. , which made them Sslowly they get rid of their worries gave up worrying and gradually regained their strength and expectations about futurehopes for the future. They reminded each other that everyoneto look after him/herselfthemselves well and finish the race safely.
图片5：甲板上阅读的Sophie, Photo 5: Sophie reading on deck组委会严格调查之后很快公布了结果，并发起所有船队和克利伯大家庭的成员为Andrew制作悼念册、慰问家人，涉事船队在稍事休整和心理疏导以后重返比赛追上大部队。第一赛程结束以后，IchorCoal船队在船上贴上代表他的黑色标志，让他用这样的方式和大家一起参加完他原本计划参加的后面几个赛段比赛。

After a formal strict investigation, the race organizers released the accident report and invited all the team and Clipper families to make a book of condolences for Andrew and to comfort his family. After some stop and resting onshore, together with some psychological support, the IchorCoal team headed back to the race and quickly caught up with the main fleet quickly. After Leg 1, the team made a black label?? on the boat, carrying him it to finish the rest of the legs Andy Ashmanhe was meant to join afterwards together with the teamdue to complete.
图片6: Dragon Watch青龙班组队友们，后排：Matt, Julian, Mike, 前排：Sophie, Andy和濛濛, Photo 6: Dragon Watch Teammates, Back: Matt, Julian, Mike, Front: Sophie, Andy & Mengmeng
航行中的难与美The Difficulty & Beauty of Sailing

也许是开赛不久就直接面对如此挑战，也许是工程师本来就比较慎言，濛濛在船上话不多，他喜欢认真踏实地完成自己的工作，全力支持大家，静静地体会在海上和帆船上的一切。

Maybe because of such a challenge once the race began, or maybe engineers are always not talkative, Mengmeng did not talk much on the boat. He likeds to do his job carefully and support everyone wellothers, silently experiencinge and enjoying everything in about the ocean and on the boat.
图片7: 掌舵的Matt和濛濛，Photo 7: Matt & Mengmeng at theon hHelm.在他四个赛段的比赛中，他印象最深的是第三赛段从南非开普敦到西澳的奥尔巴尼，出发之后就有风暴，好些船员晕船倒下，号称“滚筒洗衣机赛段”的南大洋彻头彻尾地挑战着大家。船身常常都是倾斜的，濛濛记得自己手机上的水平仪监测显示这个赛段大部分的时间船身倾斜度在30-40度之间，38度居多。

In all those four legs he had joinedAcross the four legs he sailed in, it was Leg 3, from Cape Town, South Africa, to Albany, West Australia, that for Mengmeng was the most impressive .one for Mengmeng. There was a storm soon after the race started, several crew were sick and unable to work because of seasicknesshad to lay down as for the seasickness. The Roaring Forties and the so-called ‘barrel washing machine leg’ was challenging everyone. The boat kept titlingwas rocking almost all the time. Mengmeng remembered that the spirit level level instrument on his mobile indicated thatshowed the boat was listing between 30 and -40 degrees for the majority of the time during this leg, reachingand 38 degreesfor the most.
图片8: 值妈咪班的Mike和濛濛， Photo 8: Mike & Mengmeng on Mother Watch这倾斜的船身意味着人在船上的生活变得无比困难。船舱里的厨房炉具是可以随着船身倾斜而倾斜的，只要记得把夹子锁上就好，至于做饭烧水的Mother，需要有足够的技巧在倾斜的船舱里切菜做饭，按时供应一船人的餐食茶水，也算是有难度吧。A listing boat makes life difficult for everyone on board. This titling boat means that life gets every difficult for anyone on the boat. The hanging cooking utensils in the galley align with the angle of the boat, so you had to remember to lock then in place so they did not fall.were able to move its angle aligned with the boat, you just need to remember lock them with the clincher. As for the “mMother” on duty to cook and boil water, he or she just needs to be able to cut and cookwork in the tilting boat, still servingand serve food and drinks for the crew on time, which could be regarded as with a little difficulty.
图片9: 甲板上工作的濛濛 Photo 9: Mengmeng working on the deck更难的是如厕。马桶不会像炉具那样可以随船身倾斜而倾斜，它是固定的，所以你需要在倾斜的卫生间里调整身体状态去适应马桶，并且保证自己和卫生间都干净，真不是简简单单的瑜伽动作可以解决问题的，实在是难以形容的难。

MWhat is more difficult is to go to the toilet. The toilet set candoes not tilt with the boat as what the cooker would dothe galley stove does, so you must . It was set there, so one had to adjust his/her ownyour body position to suit the toilet set in the small tilting toilet space and make sure both oneselfkeep yourself and the toilet was clean. , This is not easy and some knowledge of yoga positions and being flexible is helpful!
which is not as easy as you could think to try some yoga movement. It was really difficult, and that type of difficulty one could not easily describe.这样的倾斜度下，行走在甲板上工作，彼此配合风浪中的换帆、调帆，并且注意自己和船队安全，也不容易。就连在陆地上走到前面5米去喝杯热茶只需要的几秒钟，在船上都可能加好多倍到好几分钟，还不能忘记系好安全绳在船的高处慢行。

Under such titling conditions, walking and working on the deck, changing sails, reefing, trimming and all the work to keep the boat going needs to be done in the face of turbulent sea conditions. At the same time crew safety is paramount. s together with the team during the waves and winds was not easy at all, especially you need to make sure your own safety and that of the team. OnIn the land, it takes just moments to you only need several seconds to walk 5 meters ahead to get a cup of hot tea; however, oin the boat, what you need is several minutes, doubles, triples and even several times of the time you need in landor more:, and you should also rememberyou need to walk slowly on the high side of the boat with your safety belt clinched onattached with your safety harness..
图片10:第三四赛段航行日常，Photo 10: Sailing in the Southern Ocean Leg 3&4这种时候，濛濛最开心的是作为Mother询问甲板上的船员喝哪种茶或者咖啡的时候，有船员回答，“我不喝了。”这答案会让他在心里欢呼，这节约了多少分钟送茶往返的艰难移动呀。

At such moments, what made Mengmeng most happy would be the hearing of the answer from other crew that ‘I do not need any drink.’ when he was the Mother and asked crew working on deck which drink they would prefer, coffee or what type of tea. Such answer would make him cheers in the heart as it means to save how many minutes of difficult moving to serve the tea to the crew on deck and then get back to the galley.

When working in galley, Mengmeng recalls how it would please him to hear that crew did not want hot drinks as this would save him many minutes navigating the route to and from the deck.
图片11: 妈咪班日常-我能喝杯茶吗？Photo 11: Can I have a cup of tea? -Routine of Mother Watch 这风浪、这倾斜也不全都是困难和挑战，它们有不一样的美。
The wind, the waves, the tilting were not always the only difficulties and challenges, though they have their unique beauty.
没有风浪的时候，茫茫大海里只有自己脚下的这艘船，四周一眼望去是无边无际的广袤海平面。当滔天的浪把船裹起来，就像山谷一样，船如同在被浓雾笼罩的山谷底部行走，甲板上前方200，300米远的距离都看不到别的，只有浪。夜里这样的时刻你只会看到船帆顶上的那盏灯，微光，却足够明亮，彷佛这世间所有的依靠和指引。

When there wereWith no big waves, there iswas only your boat in the intensive ocean and all what you could onlycan see is the was the endless oceanocean to the horizon. When theBut with huge waves emerged the boat, it was likethe boat appears to be in a valley and the boat was moving through along the valley’s floorbed through the heavy fog, one could seewith nothing but waves 200 or 300 meters ahead of the deckbow. If it was in theAt night, you can seecould only see the deck illumined by the weak light on top of the mastmasthead , weak light, thoughbut bright enough to give you you all the directions and comforts in the world.
图片12：第三四段航行日常, Photo 12: Sailing in the Southern Ocean Leg 3 & 4当船穿过这个浪，就如同走出山谷，豁然开朗，前面是一望无际的海，只有海。也许前面又来一个浪，再穿过这个浪，再走出这个山谷，就这样，在“山谷”和海洋中前行，朝霞晚霞日升日落，夜晚头顶上满天星空，璀璨夺目，如同一个美丽的穹顶笼罩着你。你只觉得大自然变换莫测、美不胜收，人如此渺小，唯有和海一样壮阔的思绪。这些，是陆地上完全体会不到的。

When the boat was gettingAs the boat powers through one big wave, it was like tois as though you get out of the valley and suddenly haved an open view, you could seeing the immerse vast ocean in front of youahead, only ocean at all. Maybe there would comeis another big wave, getting through that wave, getting out of the valley. One after oneanother, you move ahead in the valleys and oceans, with morning clouds, dawns, twilights, sunrise and sunset, evening stars scatteredall acrossover the sky in the eveningsas a “starry dome”., shining like a beautiful dome was covering you. You could onlycan feel the changes and charms of mother nature. Only on the ocean can you have big thoughts when you understand that, while people arewas so small.
and could only have big thoughts like the ocean. All these, you could never experience when you are on land.

赛后的生活回归Back to Life After the Race转眼四个赛段比赛结束，濛濛在艾尔利海滩和队友们告别，重返陆地，准备着重新开始陆地上精彩纷呈的生活，却没想到海上这半年间，自己所在的海洋石油行业已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，整个行业进入低谷期，不但自己为了参赛辞职如今很难找到新工作，当初把自己引入帆船之门的领导也被裁员赋闲在家。

After finishing four legs of the race of four legs, Mengmeng said Goodbye to the team at Arlie Beach and headed back to his normal life on land. However, during these half year when he was in the oceanat sea, the off-shoreocean oil industry which he was belonged had already hadundergone a dramatical change. The whole industry was was into the low periodin recession, not only him was it very difficult for him to get aa new job as he had quit his former job before joining in the race, but evenalso his former boss, who had takentook him into the world of sailing, had been made was redundant and now stayed at home jobless.
图片13: 海上工程师日常工作照， Photo 13: Daily work of Where a marine engineer works.
濛濛前前后后给行业内不同公司投了70多份简历，还是敌不过行业的低谷期，干脆给自己放假旅行，澳洲、然后回国去了四川、重庆、台湾，再回到沈阳陪伴父母。那半年，像极了海上那些漆黑漆黑的夜晚，那些青岛号在风浪包裹的“山谷”里穿行连前面200米都看不清楚的时刻。

Mengmeng sent out at least 70 resumes to different companies in his industry, but was not able to get his luck in this downtime of the industrystill had no job. He gave himself a holiday to travel around Australia and then back to China, to Sichuan, Chongqing, Taiwan and then Shengyang to be together with his parents. That half year without working, was very similar to those dark, dark nights in the ocean and those moments when boat Qingdao boat was getting through the deep valley covered fully by waves and you could not see what was ahead 200 meters aheadway.

Please confirm that Mengmeng was on Qingdao and the death was on InchCoal – not Mengmengs boat. I was confused reading the earlier section.
图片14:第三四赛段航行日常，Photo 14: Sailing in Leg 3&4the Southern Ocean.
当初的黑夜纵然难熬也总会过去迎来晨曦，风浪再大再难也会过去，一次又一次，锤炼着每个水手的心。“如今你在陆地上，再难也不会有你们在海上难。”濛濛的爸爸这样告诉他，让他安下心来踏实等待。

Those nights were difficult but still welcomed eventually by the dawn and light eventually; while no matter how big the waves were, they would eventually be over, toonce and once again to make the heart of every sailor to be stronger and stronger. ‘Now you are on land, nothing could be more difficult than what you have had in the ocean.’ Mengmeng’s fatherdad told him this way and let him calm down and wait patiently.
图片15: 掌舵的濛濛， Photo 15: Mengmeng at the h on Helm 后来在朋友的推荐下，他去深圳工作了一年多，然后去了挪威工作，海洋石油行业当中拥有最多领先技术的国家之一。Then, withOn a friend’s recommendation, he went to work in Shenzhen for over a one year and then moved to Norway for work, a world-leading country in the technology of the off-shore oil industry. which is a country with one of the most significant numbers of advanced technologies in the ocean oil industry.
图片16: 在深圳参加帆船比赛的濛濛， Photo 16: Join inA sSailing rRegatta in Shenzhen北欧的严寒和积雪让他首先开始滑雪。却没想到很快就遭遇了一次意外，左膝交叉韧带断裂，治疗恢复行走以后又做了一个韧带再造手术，接着接受康复治疗一年。所幸得益于北欧先进的运动康复治疗体系，身体恢复得非常好，正常生活、普通运动没有影响，只是左右膝的运动力量会有30%的差距。

The snow and cold in the nordic areain Norway encouraged him to take up skiing made him choose to ski first as his sports., but an accident damaged his left knee. Unfortunately, he had one accident very soon and had the cruciate ligaments of his left knee broken. After some treatment, he could get back to basic walking was able to walk again but, then he had aneeded surgery to rebuild his ligaments, and then he had one yearfollowed by a year of physiotherapy. With treatment he made a good recovery Thanks to the advanced rehabilitation treatment system of Nordic countries, he was recovered very well. There was no influence to his daily life and normal sports, but has only 730% of the power in his left knee compared to the right, of strength difference between two knees in terms of sports performance.limiting his ability to take part in sport.
生活在北极圈以南的高纬度地区，极昼和极夜的存在会让挪威人积极参加各种运动以应对这独特的自然环境带来的挑战。放弃了滑雪的濛濛如愿在当地找到了玩帆船的朋友们和圈子，成为他们中最年轻的一个帆船水手。

Living in the highat altitude area of South of the Arctic Circle, Mengmeng was no longer able to ski but the common polar day and polar night made people in Norway love doing all sorts of sports to deal with such unique challenges of Mother nature. Mengmeng had to give up skiing and finally met athe group of people who loved and always going sailing and was . He became the youngest sailor in this group.
图片17: 在挪威参加帆船比赛， Photo 17: Regatta in Norway挪威的帆船运动并不像澳洲那般便捷，每年只有4月到10月是帆船季，通常大家都是下午下班以后在俱乐部汇合，一起练习，每周会有一个例行的场地赛促进彼此切磋和提高。大概6月以后，从6点左右大家出发到10点左右训练、比赛完，收拾清洗好帆船，大家一起喝一杯交流一下，天都还是亮的，白天一般。

Sailing in Norway is not as convenient or as warm as that in Australia. The sailing season is only from April to October and normally people meet and have their trainning together after they finish work in the late afternoon for a weekly regatta. . There is normally a weekly regatta for communication and skill improvement among all teams. NormallyIn the long summer nights fromafter June, they would start from around 6pm and finish the regattasailing around 10pm. After they sortinged out all the gears, cleaninged up all the boats and havingd a cup of drink to chew overreview the raceegatta today, it was still brightwould still be as light as daytime when they went homefinished up everything.
帆船运动并不单纯靠体力，船长的决策、对风向的解读、对场地行进路线的规划和队友之间的配合比单个船员肌肉力量的要求更重要。濛濛的膝盖伤在这里完全不是问题，当年跨越大西洋、南大洋到印度洋环过半个地球和不同国家队友亲密合作的经历在如今都变成优势叠加、放大，他也就更珍惜这个受伤后还可以和朋友们一起尽情享受的运动。

Sailing is not a sport only relying on thnot onlye about physical strength:, the strategy of the skipper, the understanding and use of the wind, the route planning about route for regatta and the cooperation between team members are more important than the muscle power of each singlethe strength of any one sailor. The knee inj ury of Mengmeng’s knee injury was not a problem at all here, while histhe previous experience of crossing the Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean and Indian Oceans, sailing half way around the world the world and the team work with people from different countries was a plus for him now and even to be enlarged and manifested in sailing, which made him cherish this sportmeant he could still contribute and enjoy sailing fully enjoy with friends after the injury.
这帮同样爱帆船的朋友，也帮濛濛在人与人之间比较有距离感的北欧生活增添了更多人情味和放松。Thisose group of people with the samewho share their love for sailing enabled Mengmeng to have additional way to relax and develop closer relationship with others in the Nordic region, a regionarea where people normally keep a bit of distance fromwith each other.
图片18:在挪威参加的帆船比赛， Photo 18: The A sailing regatta in Norway海上工程师的职业习惯让濛濛理性地回顾、比较自己经历过的滑雪和帆船运动的风险和安全，甚至自己的海上工作。他说无论是运动还是工作，安全都是第一的。自己当初滑雪受伤其实是可以避免的，那天之前的晚上和当天清晨一直都在下雨，雪场的雪部分有结冰和泥泞，到达雪场发现已经不是粉雪的状态，应该立刻叫停，可是心里还是有一丝侥幸，“来都来了，试试吧，不会那么倒霉受伤吧。”如果再有一次，他说自己会懂得评估风险以后主动终止。

The working habits of In his work as a marine engineer made Mengmeng would naturally review and compare the safety and risks at work and here between skiing and sailing -, the two sports he had experienced, and even extended to his work in the ocean. He saysid safety should always be the first priority, no matter it iswhether for sports or for work. His own skiing injury by skiing was actually avoidable as it was raining the night before his accidentlast night and in the morning and there was ice and mud oin the ski slopeing field. He found it was not the powdery snow condition as when he arrived and he should have call a stop stopped immediately, but he wanted to try his luck, ‘I amhave already here come, try it and itI would not be unlucky to hurt myself.’ He said he could estimate the risk carefully and call would a stop by himself if there were another opportunitystop himself in a similar circumstance again.
.就好像如今在挪威工作，挪威除了海上石油技术领先，还几乎是行业中操作、安全系统流程的制定者。所有工作人员，无论职位高低，每四年必须全面参加一次海上安全系列培训，确保每个岗位上的人应对各种安全问题时如肌肉记忆一般正确、规范。这是他喜欢在挪威工作的一个部分。

This is like his work now in Norway. Norway is a country with not only having itsa leading position in ocean offshore oil technology, but also the rule maker for the operation and safety systems in the his industry. All the staff, no matter high or lowirrespective of their position, everyone must join take part in a comprehensive ocean safety training every four years, to be familiar with all procedures and standardsmake sure that everyone has instinctive muscle memory for every single safety procedure in every single working position, correct and direct to follow the standards. This is one of the best parts of the job Mengmeng enjoys most.
he enjoys working in Norway.这和帆船特别像，有些天气是不适合出海的，有些标明不可航行的路段就是不可以贸然尝试的，你得把始终安全放在首位，你得学会利用风、浪、涌、洋流，和它和谐共处，不是战胜大自然，而是顺应它，尊重它，以获得力量和助力顺利到达彼岸，享受更多的航行乐趣。This is very similar to sailing: there are days that you should not good to go out oin the ocean, there are some parts of the routes marked unsuitable for sailing thatand you should avoidfollow. One must put safety as the first priority and one must learn to make use of the wind, wave, tide and, currents and get along with them nicely. It is not toYou don’t ignore overtake mMother nature, but to follow and respect her to gain the strength from her for the support to arrive safely at your destination and with a lot of fun in the journeyenjoy the journey.
图片19: 青岛号第三赛段抵达澳大利亚奥尔巴尼，前排右二濛濛，Photo 19, Qingdao team arriving in Albany, Australia in Leg 3from XXXXX, Mengmeng in front rtow, the second from the rightleft.而在帆船运动中，和一船的队友们并肩作战，有人在甲板下照顾饮食后勤，有人甲板上掌舵调帆，还有人轮流休息以便精力充沛轮换队友，又何尝不像我们的人生旅程？无论在哪里，无论是哪种工作、生活、休息的状态，何尝不像当初濛濛印象最深的那些黑夜里的航行，在南大洋被滔天巨浪裹挟在山谷底般，无助、担心、忐忑之后迎来光明、喜悦和开阔？何尝不像队友间的浅言笑谈温暖着彼此重新燃起希望？这些经历和心路历程，何尝不是力量源泉？

When you are sailing you work with a team, the crew: , there is always a team of crew to work with closely, someone working belowunder the deck for in the galley preparing food and drinks, someone on deck to helm and others to trim the sails whileand someone to take rest in turn to change watchesthose in the other watch are resting. with other crew, Iisn’t it exactly like our own journey of in life? No matter where you are, no matter in what type of condition you are with work, life or rest, in life isn’t it just like the sailing in the dark nights deep in Mengmeng’s memory? The helplessness, worrying and uncertainty when sailing across through the deep valley covered by huge waves in the Southern Ocean were all overtaking by brightness, happiness and openness.??? iIsn’t it just like the small talks and smiles to brighten up the hope of each other? Such journey on the way and in the heart, isn’t it the origin of one’s power? I really don’t know how to say this!
人生海海，我们都将前行。很难说10年前在澳洲的这个选择，踏上克利伯环球帆船赛越洋航海之旅，半年在海上的生活直接带来了什么，但似乎后来的生活中又无时无刻不有着当初的痕迹。也许，这是帆船，这是帆船人生，潜移默化，刻骨铭心。如果是你，你会愿意像濛濛一样踏上这个旅程去寻找自己和内心的力量吗？随着海浪无尽祝福。Life is like the ocean and we all move on. It is hard to say that the choice made 10 years ago in Australia to spend six months step on the cross-ocean sailing journey with the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race for half year in the ocean directly bringsbrought anything to Mengmenghim, but everything afterwards has somewhat links with it. This is perhaps the real lesson of taking the journey with Clipper – testing yourself against nature and learning who you really are. “May the force be with you.”

Probably, this is sailing and this is the life of sailing, unconsciously and deeply into one’s heart. If it were you, would you like to take on this journey to look for yourself and the strength inside your heart? Let the blessing be with you together with the waves.
图片20: 目前在挪威生活的濛濛, Photo 120: Mengmeng in Norway
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徐濛濛，英文编辑Vii C，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: Thise article is based on the interviews with Mengmeng Xuthe hero, and the photos and videos in this article are coming from the Clipper wWebsite & Mengmeng, Geoffrey Davies helped Vii C helps with editing the English version. Thanks. If you would like to use or quote from thise article, please make reference, or contact the author for permissionauthorization.