Moment of weakness

[Philiz]

Been out on one of them Raggie thingies for the first time this weekend. James let me have the helm for about an hour and a half, we nearly fell for it until he put me on rope pulling duty when we were tacking. Too much like hard work for me!

Great experience though, thanks James!

 

[LittleShip]

we nearly fell for it until he put me on rope pulling duty when we were tacking. Too much like hard work for me

Whimp, put your back into it, just wait until I ask you to Sweat up Little Ship!

Tom

 

[Philiz]

Whimp, yep that's me! I gave up hard work long ago, because..............................well, it's too much like hard work

 

[wl745]

Tacking and stuff

my only foray into wind powered boats was the result of a five day course with a lady instructor,during the course we were shown how to recover the boat after a capsize and how to tack etc,then a one hour round the bay with her demonstrating the various things you have to do.Each of us was then given a single handed boat(I think a Laser?)and told to go practise which we did ,fortunatly I was alone the day I went out .I did have fun and capsized several times and recovered easily!On trying to get back in to the yacht club (which was in the lee of a hill)I had some difficulty,eventually I took a run at it and gained sufficient speed to approach the dockside rather to fast so I thought, this is going to be tricky,perhaps if I jump in the water and pull on the stern I can do it,unfortunatly the water was about ten foot deep and I submerged releasing the Laser which promtly swung about and went of on its own me swimming after it with the lady instructress falling about in hysterics!!This in America too!!Now I have a nice power boat!!