Michael Olajide, the former boxer who teaches the classes, said that skippers of all levels were welcome and that there was no pressure to do every move.
An 18-hole expanse of rye and bentgrass is, according to the city, the oldest public golf course west of the Allegheny Mountains; and the Jackson Park Yacht Club, overlooking Lake Michigan, welcomes skippers of all levels of experience.
Also in a position of command is the skipper of the all-women's boat Nautor Too, the race veteran Lisa Charles McDonald, of Providence, R.I., who now lives in England.
Correction: August 5, 2001, Sunday The Boating Report article in the sports pages last Sunday misstated the nationality of Lisa McDonald, the skipper of the all-female team entered in this fall's around-the world Volvo Ocean Race.
To see the swallowtail you have to go to the Norfolk Broads; to spot the Glanville fritillary you have to go to the Isle of Wight; to observe the mountain ringlet you have to climb mountains; and to glimpse the remotest one of all, the chequered skipper, now extinct in England, you have to go to Argyllshire.
The appointment means Patel will be skipper across all three formats of the game, as he already leads Warwickshire in first-class and 50-overs cricket.
The most frustrated of all Shropshire's players at Jesmond was skipper Richard Oliver, who had the longest wasted trip.
Phil Nicholas, a retired Navy commander and former skipper of a helicopter squadron, has lived all over the world.
Menninger, a skipper of three two-person boats that all contributed to their school's fifth national title, helped St. Mary's edge Boston College by virtue of a tiebreaker.
