Sailing 2018

In Rimu last week, we went off our heels, sailing at Lake Rua ! The teachers instructed us to post this on our blogs.

Firstly we drove to the lake grounds and got prepared. Secondly we were taught about how to gear up a boat.

The sky was blue with the clouds looking more elegant than ever with the clouds overlapping each over. I found it a bit tricky with the ropes but I “surprisingly” pulled through. We had learnt how the ropes work to support our boat. I continued to look at the way it was being put together and tried to think of ways of how the things would work together because I didn’t really take in the right amount of information, my BAD. When the boat was set up, we waited when the others were done. The puting continued to happen until some time later. The following task was how to learn how to use it.

It was broken into two parts. The first was how to control the boat by pulling the string up to your hand and switching it to the other hand to control its power and speed. It went something like this. I vaguely remember that I was pulling the string up to my hand and moving the grabbing hand into a grip. I got really confused how the wanted me to do this, so I fourtnily got some HELP, I imagine people going like opera singers. Next part of the first task was to move the stick to make it move, the stick control resembled a join stick figure. We had to hold it like a microphone when we used it. We had to do the string thing and the stick thing kinda of at the same time (sorry for the blandness). Now for the second task of this task was too learn how to duck under the sail and with back to our controls as we are moving (we did this on land.) I found this a bit hard but I actually did it wright. I got use to it after a few tries. We had to pivet as we moved to the other side. I'm happy that I remembered how to pivot from my boxing lessons. Also I would like to describe these actions like a spinning tornado swerving to a place in a timed manor over and over again.

After that was done we were going to practise on water. To be honest I did not take part the two particular events (in saling). I did not this because there was a lot of confusion stress, and not knowing what decision to make in the end. I felt a little bad that I sat out but it wasn’t the end of the world for me.

To add some stuff what also happened in that day I will show you guys and girls some photos.

To finish this off. The head of the Student council gave our instructs our thanks and we went of on our way back to school.