Fondue fun day!!

We arrived in Fleetwood at about five o’clock on Sunday. We all settled into our cabins and ‘chilled out’ for a few hours. After dinner we all went fishing, and only caught two jelly fish and a plastic bag!
This morning we woke up fairly early to start learning about the boat. After breakfast we all fitted into our lifejackets and learnt about the safety lines. We raced up and down the boat in teams, each person being clipped to the boat. It was really fun! After the races we learnt how to unfurl the sails. There were two main sails we unfurled, these were the jib and the mizzen. After learning about the sails we had a short break. During this break we all met a cute old man who told us about his boat. His boat was sixty-one years old, and he had owned it for fifty-nine years! After the break we looked around the boat at all the safety equipment. We learnt about flares, grab bags, the epirb, life rafts, navigation system and more… We also learnt about different knots, these knots were the figure of eight, the round turn and the two half hitches, the bow line and the clove hitch. Then we all had a go at driving the dingy. This was quite hard to grasp at first but once we got the hang of it, it was really easy. In the evening we played games and finished the night off with a delicious chocolate fondue!