We will never wrap our heads around the Christmas season in Australia being at peak summer. How confused must the children be with Santa’s sleigh and Frosty the Snowman? They revised the classic song, “Jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia, On a scorching summer’s day…”
But who are we to judge and welcome this note from Australian publication Southern Woodenboat Sailing:
It’s a reliable conversation starter for those slightly awkward pre-Christmas gatherings. “What was the greatest decade for music of the twentieth century?” I’m confident that the 1960s would be the most common choice.
The civil rights movement, a countercultural groundswell and an emerging generation gap spawned sounds we had never heard before… and we loved them. The roaring 20s, when economic prosperity led to increased consumerism and more leisure time, was labeled the “jazz age”. Certainly not the 1980s. (Think “Air Supply” and “Culture Club”)
When we apply the same thinking to yacht design, there are some interesting parallels. The 1960s was a time of experiment when rudders moved away from keels and outrageously curvaceous hulls became the norm. Some worked…some didn’t. And in the 1920s, the International Rule produced perhaps the most elegant yachts of all time… (let’s not talk about yachts from the 1980s).
So perhaps the mood and circumstance of a society at a particular stage in its evolution, is reflected more consistently across its creative output, than we might at first imagine.
Now that’s a more interesting conversation starter!
Source: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/12/12/interesting-holiday-conversation-starter/
