Thursday, July 22, 2010

Sailing Days 2, 3 & 4

Sailing is so much fun.  It is hard to find time later to post, but I will try to catch up.
Day 2- We learned capsizing and tacking down wind.  To practice this we played follow Melissa, which involved tacking continuously and turning to judge the wind direction.
Day 3- Everyone got a turn to be the skipper and the crew.  We got free time to practice our sailing skills.
Day 4-  Today we learned the correct way to gybe.  We sailed figure eights around two buoys and practiced gybing and tacking.  Two people capsized today.  They were completely overturned and it took them awhile to turn back over.