Year 7 Sailing Day

On Friday 16 February the four Year 7 classes and the Whanau class went to Lake Rua for our Sailing Day.

                    To add to the excitement Travelon
                    (our bus company) gave us the
                    double-decker bus for our journey,
                    which was a new experience for
                    most of the students.

When we got there we were given some very good instruction about how to rig a boat.

We practiced sailing on dry land . . .

. . . and then we were off.

Oops . . . we forgot our boats.                                            There they are:

 

So a little more organising, and THIS time, we were off.

          However we had booked such
          great weather for our outing
          that there was hardly any wind
          in the morning, and the power
          boats had to give us a bit of a
          helping hand.


Seasoned yachtie Mark (AKA Popeye the Sailorman) managed to find some wind on the lake while we had our lunch.


The wind picked up a bit in the afternoon so we all had more sailing fun after lunch.

All in all it was a great day out, although we probably need a bit more work before we enter the next Americas Cup race.