Noname...

Thursday 23rd of August

First of all I want to say that we have a very good morning group. Everything we try with them becomes a success and they are really gaining a lot of experience. We had a little race were they had to go around two buoys and when I blew my whistle they had to sail to an upwind buoy. After this we made a big tour all the way to the golden bay hotel (that’s a long way). They were for the first time sailing on a straight line all the time and we were really proud of them. So they didn’t get any homework today.
The afternoon group tough is another story…
First of all half of the students were too late. But at least 7 of the 8 were there by the time we got on the water.
We started with the same briefing, the same race, we were doing the same as the morning group since we stated with this group, so you would think that they would perform the same.
The only one who was able to get to the upwind buoy was a boy from the morning group who unfortunately stops sailing today because of a roller blade championship.
It wasn’t working so we went on a tour and even then they are lying with their noses into the wind.
Because it really wasn’t working out as we wanted we just headed to the beach and let them get al the sand out of the boats and give them a thorough clean. This eventually turned out to a water fight but at least the boats got cleaned.


Friday 24th of August

With the morning group we held a competition where they had to sail around an old Olympic track.
As known they performed pretty well.
With the afternoon group we held another sort of competition. We laid 4 buoys in a rectangle shape.
Between the buoys closest to each other there was a line. So we had two lines.
And the way of competition was to pass the lines as much as possible.
They even had to sail upwind and they did very good. So we were really surprised about there performance.

We ended the day with some wakeboarding by sunset and a dinner with two Korean guys who were friends of Zou Qing.