Sunday, Day 1, we march down the dock to our 48’ Beneteau with all of our gear around 10AM along with our instructor for the next week. It’s a beautiful morning, warm and sunny with a nice easterly trade winds.
Jenni, our instructor, gives us a chart talk as one of our first lessons after stowing our gear and going through our boat check list. We were missing a fender, 3 cable gates, and flares. Good thing we did the pre-sail check list!
See how happy Jenni is when we tell her how much experience we have sailing and what good listeners we are?
See how quickly Jennni realizes what liars we are? Bad men!! Bad, bad men!
In spite of her misgivings about our seaworthiness we get Jenni to reconsider and have hope for us. We quickly gather for a departure team photo with our pirate flag from four previous bareboat cruises before she changes her mind.
Dave, who is actually building a 32’ 1920 vintage motor-sailer from scratch at his house in Wilmington, NC, gets his FIRST CHANCE to actually sail a boat! He’s been all smiles all day long! You couldn’t have rubbed the grin off of his face if you had to.
This will be the last picture of Dave with this hat on. Remember we had nice easterly winds? His hat is now drifting someplace towards Venezuela. 😮
We were away from the dock by 2PM and spent 3 hours taking turns manning the helm and winches while tacking back and forth just west of St. George’s finally going through anchoring training just southwest of St George’s for the night.
We dinghied to Coconut Beach and joined another LTD Sailing group of Gui and his wife Fabiana from São Paulo and their instructor Grace. There were a few Rum Punches consumed as well as lobster, Lambi (conch), and spicy chicken. Tomorrow we’ll practice and learn more starting with our ASA 101 exam at 8AM. I’m hoping we all pass but a bit worried about our man Thumser. Maybe I should be studying right now myself!😬
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