Today was the last day of sailing before the week of exams (which starts on Tuesday) Tuesday is the pre-assessment, which basically means you show that you can actually sail. I'm reasonably confident about it all, bit's not like school exams where you get told what you need to know and told to remember it all. here you get told probably more than you need to know so you have a good understanding of everything you're expected to know, I like it much more this way, you can feel more confident in your abilities.
We didn't actually do much sailing today as the wind died. :( Sad times. We had a bit of practise at towing boats and then went out, tried sailing rudderless for a bit in what wind we had and when that died then we went in and did a few questions and general recap on everything. We finished fairly early and then the usual: dinner, computer room, blog. I'll be off to church in a few moments.
Rudderless sailing is quite a bit of fun, weird at first, but fun. It would have been better with a bit more wind but ah well. Apparently at the moment it's looking like the first half of our instructor course will be done in little wind. May sound like it's not good, but it could work in our favour as we've done a fair bit of light-wind sailing, unlike most people taking the assessment (light winds usually means a day of theory, so they never get to practise sailing in light winds, which relies more on balance of the boat than rudder for turning) We have however, so it might count for us that we can sail in light winds :D
I don't particularly want to get my hopes up... but by the end of next week I could officially be a Dinghy Instructor.... or I could be "action-planned" (told a target I need to achieve before I qualify) apparently most people "action-plan". Hopefully I won't.... we'll see. :D :D
Have a good evening :D
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