FireplaceGirl
New Member
Not sure what type of boat I'll be learning on yet. Even though it might be cold, I guess I'll just try and deal with it. Do you know approximately how long you'd be in the water for while trying to right the boat from capsize recovery?
If you are at Jericho the chances are you will have started in an Escape. The horrid little roto-molded orange rubber duck. I hated those things. If you capsized 5 times already that means you must have had some wind! They turn back over easy peasy but they are darned hard to climb back into. Nothing to grab. I was not able to climb back into mine. They had to haul me into the coach boat by my life jacket. I landed face first on the bottom like a Tuna fish. Not my proudest moment.
After 3 days of instruction you should be moving to the double handed Pirates. A new set of challenges for the new sailor. How to work with crew.
I hope that you are having a ton of fun!