March Level 1 Adult Course – crazy weather!

Faced with challenges of heavy weather weekend, five intrepid beginners nonetheless arrived on Friday to perfect learning conditions – 8mph with clear blue skies.  Saturday was forecast to be less attractive so we set about a day of intensive sailing to cover the practical syllabus in one day.  After a solid 6 hours sailing in an 8 hour day all students were tacking, gybing and sailing a rectangular course – unheard of so quickly!

 

Saturday saw everyone out in 20mph winds, with some unpredictable guts.  What stars!  Capsize drills were perfected during the first few minutes, as were crash gybes and untangling buoy anchor chains from rudders.

 

Theory in the afternoon left us with five excellent sailors, all keen to progress and join in club sailing. 

 

Star of the w/e had to be Gareth who insisted on going out on Saturday afternoon in white horses and heavy gusts.  That certainly won the hero of the day award.

 

All will be coming back for more at one of the spring level 2 courses.  Why not join them?

 

Philip Markham