Optimist Yachting

 

Last week the year 6’s got an opportunity to get involved with Optimist Yachting.

Everyday a group of year 6’s went down to Pandora Pond. Half of the year 6’s went on Monday and Tuesday and the other half went on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday a few lucky people got another chance to go.
When we arrived at the pond the first job was to get changed into our warm sailing clothes and put our bags safely away. Then we went through the safety checks, these were:

1.         Ears

2.        Lifejacket

3.        Bungs

4.        Centre board clip

5.        Mast clip

6.        Rudder clip

7.        Hat!

The reason we didn’t have to set them up was because Greenmeadows used them in the mornings. Except for Friday when they didn’t go and we set them up and packed them up.

Room 13 were proud to be involved in the first capsize in 3 years! Maxine and Kassie had a bit of a fall when they misbalanced their boat, spun around and tipped.

“It was freezing, but we just clung onto our boat until rescue came, Mrs Colliss talked us through what to do and Mr Anderson swum out and turned our boat over. Then we had the long (and boring) job of bailing it out” recalled Kassie and Maxine.

This all happened on Tuesday and we couldn’t blame them because the wind kept changing direction which made sailing difficult.
Over the course of the week, everyone’s skills improved as they completed the challenges.
Thank you to all the parents that came and provided transport and supervision.
We had an awesome experience and we are looking forward to doing it again at intermediate.

 

Written by Kathryn, Tyler, Maxine, Kassie