Course Number 1, Day Number 1.

[peterb26]

Just given Day 1 of my first PB Level 2 course. Stood in for a sick instructor at very short notice so didnt have time to panic.

Then at the last minute the Chief Instructor says "Oh - its an own-boat course" as he rushes out the door. (do all chief instructors always rush????)

Slight concern about being in some dilapidated wreck /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif is dissipated when the clients arrive in a brand new (2.4 engine hours) Four Winns. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

20 odd feet. 300 horse power. Very tasty............ /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

And to make matters better for me - they had almost no idea what to do with it so we started from scratch. Which I am sure is easier than someone who has a lifetime of bad habits (like I had when I first went to Mendez Marine to do my Instructors Course. ).

And they were a really great couple of guys - so with 80 degrees of wall to wall sunshine, a new boat capable of perhaps 50 kts and 3 happy chaps --- we had a blast! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

(Why am I so knackered though???) /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Solitaire]

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(Why am I so knackered though???) /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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You'll learn! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif It will be like that after every course. You can't rest for a second and in many ways you work harder than the students. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[peterb26]

An hour and a half of unconsciousness on the settee seems to have improved things Solitaire. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Now for a couple of pints at the Marina at £1.10 a pint......... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[kingfisher]

An instructor never sleeps: he rests.
There are two ways of doing things: the wrong way and the instructors' way

and so on. We printed a whole litany of those on the sail training instructors' T-shirts

 

[peterb26]

ooooops... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I rephrase then.

I was resting in a state of low-consciousness /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Solitaire]

Or - "an instructor never makes mistakes - simply turns them into teaching points!!" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sneds]

Nicely put, experienced that at a VHF course, made everyone laugh but the point was certainly remembered /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[peterb26]

Well the course all over now. Almost a memory! Loved every minute of it.

However, after 30 odd years of doing not-very-enjoyable-but-lucrative work, doing 2 days of something that I love was just a wonderful way to earn a few more pennies........

I am not ashamed to say that I used Solitaires standard phrase to my students as we left Lagos Marina on their boat in 80 degrees of sunshine.

"Welcome to my office /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif"

 

[Richard10002]

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Stood in for a sick instructor at very short notice so didnt have time to panic.

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Who were/are you working for/with?

 

[peterb26]

Replied by PM.

 

[simonH]

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Or - "an instructor never makes mistakes - simply turns them into teaching points!!" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Now let me cast my mind back on that one david !!!

Simon

 

[Solitaire]

Don't start! You have one or two skeletons in the cupboard that you don't know I know about! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[peterb26]

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Don't start! You have one or two skeletons in the cupboard that you don't know I know about! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Havent we all?? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif