Boat damaged…

04Oct08

Yesterday was a pretty cool sailing day again. Will had to do his last blind navigation, we all did some practice on sailing on to a buoy, which was spot on for all of us and after that we anchored off for some real good lunch, Will prepared for us. Around 1400 we headed straight back into the Marina for some more sailing alongside several walls…

Everything worked out fine, when one of our mates did not get the boat turned before that huge wall next to the fuel dock and we crashed into that wall almost head on. Sean jumped to the bow to fender us off with his feet … which resulted in a swollen foot. The whole pulpit has been bent and pushed sideways and upwards.

It isn’t really too bad but very very very unfortunate in this situation. If that would have happened to me, I would probably not be able to do the exams. Well, who knows. Sean was handling the whole situation great and our mate was doing another “sail-on” straight away and it worked out great.

We went back to our berth in the Marina and started to fix the whole thing. Its not looking perfect and there is a lot of work left for today, but its ok.

We also know which examiner we will have next week and the choice is really more than perfect. We are all quite confident to pass the exam. I am off today and tomorrow. The others are doing there helmsmen course on the power boat. I will stick my nose in books and try to catch up with theory. I simply can’t remember all the sound signals in combination with the flags. Also, I have to do the whole weather stuff again. Early afternoon I am invited from a couple to join them for a cup of tea on their boat. I am really looking forward to it.

Thats it so far. I will see, if I can post some pictures today or tomorrow. All the best, Kosta

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