Wednesday 19 June 2013

Tuesday long sail

The next day we had quite an early start of 6 o clock. We were in Glasson basin so had to get out of that. We set off through a channel to reach the sea. We helped with all the ropes as we had been taught the previous day and got ourselves through the gate. We used the engine at first to give us a boost to get out and also to make sure we got to our next destination on time. We were all taught in twos how to get the sails out and how to adjust them throughout the day. We were taught a trick to help us with the sails. It was to adjust the sails in a special way making sure they are not flapping to keep the boat going in the direction wanted and only having to touch the steering wheel about ten minutes at a time. Once we were in calm sea we all had a go at steering and learnt some of the things to keep an eye out for while steering like bearings ect. We had a snack and whilst the boat was going smoothly we all sat and sang one repeat after me songs. It was really hot and all had a sunbathe whilst we were singing and all got a nice tan. Some of us burnt a little bit which need to watch over the week. The boat was still going nice and calmly so Ciara and Amie went to start the chocolate Tiffin and other girls came and helped during the course of this. For lunch we had a range of soup, bacon butties and biccies, we also love tea so had lots of this. We were really naughty today and couldn’t stop eating but a fed and watered sailor equals a happy sailor. We then came in to white haven marina and whilst Ciara, Hermione, Amie and Amy made the tea, ZoĆ«, Cerys and Masie went to Tesco to get some more chocolate and sweets. We all chomped away at our tea and all had seconds, it was that good if we may say so ourselves. This is one way to keep our crew quiet. We then went on a walk to calm ourselves down before bed after all the food we had eaten. This however didn’t really work as we have a very loud and hyper crew. We all settled down into bed to get an earlish night for the following day hoping we would get a bit more wind!! Amie, Ciara&Co

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