Tuesday 6 October 2009

Hoods up and sails out...

Poking was the main technique for waking people up on this wet and cold day. The grey clouds and rain were making it feel like a day back home in Bolton, other than that everything was dandy. There was to be no sailing today because the wind had reached Force 6. We staggered up to the top of mount Tenacity to find lots and lots of rain. Lovely, but that didn’t stop us getting out. However, the thought of the lovely warm ginger biscuits that were coming up later helped. We learnt the names of the sails and how to put them up, and had a fun time racing each other in 3 teams to take out and pull in two of the sails, the monster (the mizzen) and the gerbil (the jib). The next activity on the agenda was making lunch and a game of ‘poo head’ with a pack of cards.
Then we took turns in our 3 teams again of riding and learning to drive the dinghy. We learnt how to drive safely around the basin, then did reverse doughnuts and finished with practicing ‘man overboard’ rescues with a buoy. Apparently it is a proven matter that Aaron, will go purple going in circles at 23 mph, no sorry 2.3 mph. More practicing of tying knots followed and then baking delicious ginger biscuits, tiffin and a pretty little cornflake cake. We had pasta bolognaise for tea made by Dominic and Bertie, followed by rice pudding made by Dominic, Tom, Aaron and Mary. Then we went to beddie by time…

By Bertie and Jack

(apologies for no photos, it was a bit wet!! Mary)

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