"We feel sick when there is no pitching." Sailors — about their love
In all professions, there are people who, on occasion, would do something else, and there are those who follow the vocation. In all but one. In sailors, everything is only for love. It is impossible to spend several months swimming if you are not in love with the sea and you are not waiting for a new meeting with him, once on shore. It is impossible to serve the ship day in and day out if you are not devoted to it.
The documentary play "Moments of the Sea", which recently took place at the Moscow Planetarium, tells about the values and attachments of such people. People's Artist of Russia Sergey Garmash and screenwriter Daniella Okudzhava read monologues of the crew members of the famous sailboat "Kruzenshtern". We visited this charming action to retell to you the revelations of the sailors.
"Kruzenshtern" is a four—masted sailing barque with a hundred-year history.
Once he served the Germans and under the name "Padua" transported goods from South America. After World War II, it was transferred to the Soviet Union and continued to sail the Atlantic. And in the 90s, having miraculously avoided the fate of being written off on the shore, he entered the service of the Kaliningrad Higher Marine Engineering School.
Since then, three hundred cadets have been practicing on board the sailboat every year. Sometimes they are joined by enthusiasts from the Mainland, who are invited by Mikhail Kozhukhov's "Travel Club". But the commanding staff is all sea wolves, who have gone through fire and water with the Kruzenshtern, a lot of water. Including two circumnavigations. Of course, there are a lot of stories. And in each of them, the ship is one of the main characters.
... The round hall of the planetarium is plunged into semi-darkness. The stars do not light up under the dome, as is customary here, but the ocean splashes and the sails turn white. An expressive film shot in one of the Cruzenshtern's travels accompanies the entire performance. Together with live music, they accurately notice the tonality of each of the monologues.
Garmash comes out and plunges into an infectious, hoarse reading. At first a little detached, then more and more emotional. Sometimes the word goes to Daniella, she composed these texts after talking with the sailors.
Dom"There were moments when I felt like a grain of sand," recalls Pavel Starostin, the captain's senior assistant.
— When you look at a huge wave coming at you, you calculate in your head: I have a big ship, the height of the side is 11 meters, the displacement is 80 thousand tons. Whopper! There is a wave, and you realize that you are a grain of sand. One wrong move and you're gone.
But nothing will make me leave the sea. This is already a coastal disease, you know. We feel sick when there is no pitching. Although I love coming home. There is a wonderful feeling there: there is no way here without you. At home, my sister finished a quarter on one fives, the shepherds have grown up, the parents have aged, the cat can no longer jump on the sofa. All this creates melancholy, you start thinking about home every day after six months at sea. And at home, after a while, you start to miss the ship."
Energiyastarp is echoed by the captain-mentor Mikhail Novikov:
"On a sailboat, the sensations are completely different, they cannot be obtained anywhere else. You can turn everything off on the Kruzenshtern. Electricity, life support system. Bring the entire crew on deck, just leave two at the helm, and 3700 square meters of sails will carry this huge structure to where these two people will turn.
All other vessels need engines, thrusters, but the Kruzenshtern does not. He feeds on some special human energy. And if she hadn't been there, they would have sent her ashore long ago, as happened to many sailboats.
So the captain has to be special to make it all spin. The captain must perceive the ship as his own life. Wherever you go, it goes, and from some point on, the opposite is true."
Mikhail Eremchenko is the captain of the Kruzenshtern, his soul aches for the cadets:
"Love for each other still lives on the ship. It's hard to describe, it only happens to sailors. It would seem that people in a confined space should accumulate anger, irritation. But no. I try to make everyone treat each other with some warmth, so that everyone is comfortable, at least a little like at home.
For cadets, practice on the ship is an obligatory stage of their life, the boundary between childhood and maturity. Only after the flight the cadet makes a decision. And it is right that there are sailboats. If not through sailboats, then how to fall in love with the sea? The guys who practice at Kruzenshtern will never be bad people anymore. These are not my words. These are the words of Gennady Vasilyevich Kolomensky."
Gennady Vasilyevich Kolomensky was the captain of the Kruzenshtern not so long ago.
Like many other captains, he did not live long on the shore without his favorite business. Just a few years — and a heart attack.
"Gennady Vasilyevich was worthy of respect in many ways. Both as a professional and as a person. We once received an SOS signal from a Polish schooner during a regatta. Their girl fell from the mast to the deck. Gennady Vasilyevich decided to withdraw from the race in order to save her. Many ships responded, but the doctor was only with us. Yes, and the storm was strong, but we are still not rocking so much.
Races of large sailboats, in which the captain can demonstrate himself and defend the honor of the country, they happen once every five years. And whether there will be a next one is unknown. But we withdrew from the race. They lowered the boat in severe storm conditions, overloaded the girl. And a few days later, a helicopter came for her. And we got back into the race and won it. This act of Gennady Vasilyevich shows everything. He is one of the few captains in my life that the crew called Dad."
Romanticamoryaks — they are like children.
All have seen, tested by the elements, but children. Sergey Usankov, the captain's assistant for academic work, has been plowing the seas and oceans for more than a dozen years, but still takes pictures:
"This ship pulled me in. Here, of course, everything is different, not like on warships. Firstly, they feed four times, not three. Secondly, there are women. It is important.
The element of romance has been preserved in me. Recently, it got dark, I went on deck in the morning and stood for about fifteen minutes. It seemed to shake a little. I wish I had more.
Not always, but sometimes I take a camera with me. It happens that some beautiful sunset or moonlight path. Some got bored, but I still run, take pictures."
Century" There is a saying: there used to be wooden ships and iron sailors, and now there are iron ships and wooden sailors.
And if suddenly the sailboats disappear, the iron sailors will disappear with them. But I don't want to think about it. I would like our ship to celebrate its centenary. Not as a museum, but at sea," concludes Senior boatswain Mikhail Privalov.
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