Rain and Wind

May 30th, 2008

If there’s one thing sailors love, it’s a nice strong breeze.

If there’s one thing Sailing School’s hate, it’s a nice strong breeze for beginners.

Teaching beginners to sail in strong winds is tricky. Even using cut down sails leads to students becoming overwhelmed by the erratic flapping of the sails and the strong wind coming across the water. Add in a water pouring in over the side, and 90% of students will be scared. The other 10%, well they’ll love it and be sailors for life. We just can’t afford to scare the wits out of the other 90% though.

The forecast this weekend is 25/35 knots, that’s the sort of wind that makes me want to run a Soccer Training Camp… or a Tennis Clinic.

We do our best to run alternate land based activities, but at the end of the day, there’s only so many tacking drills and find-a-words that you can do!

Screw you Huey!

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