Anatomy of a Sailboat
For Jes’ birthday we signed up for the 2-day Beginning Keelboat Sailing course. The company we signed up with is conveniently located just across the street so it was cool to sail around our ‘hood.
The morning started out in the classroom for about an hour to learn how to tie some knots and the anatomy of a sailboat. I learned a figure 8, bowline, and cleat knot. Cool!
The rest of the day was spent on a Santana 22 sailboat and learned how to steer, tack, dock, start the motor, and cast off. On top of that, I finally know where the bow, stern, port side, and starboard side are! We sailed in South Beach Harbor (behind the ballpark) and just south of the Bay Bridge. The wind was gusty but the water was pretty calm.
The weather was really gloomy and sprinkled a little in the morning but the clouds quickly ran away and we were left with a sunny bluebird-sky day. Our instructor was a really cool guy who loves to sail, has raced sailboats, lived on a sailboat, and sailed down the coast from Canada to Mexico.
I am proud to say that I had a great time and survived another day on a boat thanks to trusty ol’ Dramamine!! Woo hoo!! Tomorrow will be another adventure out on the bay and we should be able to sail the boat solo by the end of the day. Oh we’ll see…
tinou
Saturday, October 4, 2008sweet. oh hey, i still have your air bed…let me know when’s a good time to drop it off.
Chusak Chamkasem
Sunday, October 5, 2008pls email me the detail of this course e.g. the cost, will you be able to sail solo aftyer 2 days?