Graduation Day

Sailing

Today was our final day of the Learn to Sail course. We spent the entire day on the water, learning how to navigate, read charts (only thing I love more than maps are charts!), and more on trimming sails. We left the harbor and headed for George's Island by sailing south of Long Island and then heading up. The wind was a steady 20 mph so we zipped right along. Once we made the turn downwind toward George's we put up the spinnaker. The docs on George's made for some interesting sailing. We came in on fire, had to lasso a piling off the stern in order to not ram the dock. On the way back, the winds were shifting and gusting making for some challenging sailing. But we all graduated. Luckily, they didn't make us wear the yellow foulies as our graduation gowns. ;-)