Сочинение-эссе по английскому языку на тему "Accident in the sea" (9 класс)

                                                                          Spinnaker

     There were some events in my life when I was extremely upset and confused. I want to tell you about one of them.

     In the days of youth I went into sailing. I was fond of this kind of sport for about two or three years and once upon a time in summer we decided to go to Turkey on a yacht. But my captain, the owner of the vessel had to go to the sea on another yacht and invited his friend and his crew to substitute him in a voyage. So I occurred among the people whom I knew very little and who also knew me very little.

     The accident took place two or three days after our departure. We were located in the Black Sea and were going along the Crimea. The wind was favorable but not weak. The weather was fine and I offered to set a new sail, called spinnaker. It is a big front sail, which has a form of a bulb. I never set this sail for myself before but  only saw how other people did it. I must say that I wasn`t so experienced sailor that time but those people who were with me considered me as a very experienced one and trusted my word. So I offered to set a spinnaker and the captain agreed. I did all the preparations for myself not letting others to interfere into my business. And of course I made a rude mistake. I didn`t bring one rope to another board and fixed the sail incorrectly. I gave a command to get the sail up, it got blown with the wind and as it had been fixed incorrectly it was blown only from one side, beginning to list the yacht. The tension was huge and the wind simply tore the sail in two parts. The captain and the guys saw my mistake very late and nobody could do anything. Thank God, spinnaker had been torn because if it hadn`t, the yacht could have been turned upside down and drown.

     So that was the situation when I was extremely upset. My fame as a good sailor faded away. My ambitions were dropped and I survived fiasco. That was the lesson for me and my sinful vanity. My proud almost cost me the life. And besides, spinnaker was worth one thousand dollars and I had to pay for it.