admin Date , April 5, 2025 Sailing Previous Blog Comments (0)
Daniel, one of the Cadets at the Club, had just taken Paul and me out to help us learn to read the wind - I'm sorry, but that failed, and to learn to hike out - which succeeded. He really loved going out in the RS Toura. It has everything - A spinnaker and a double trapeze, so my Wife and I suggested that he take out the boat with a friend, Callum, who was on the safety boat that day. I swapped with Callum, so I went out in the Safety boat and Callum and Dan took the RS Toura for a spin.
Dan noticed we had a spinnaker and was keen to deploy it in these gusty conditions. We hadn't used the spinnaker and the only time we had used it was on dry land on a RYA1 course when we were looking at the different types of sail. The sail did not deploy well and so the boys moored on a private jetty with the owners laughing at them fixing the sail.. Once fixed they sailed up the river at speed.
A video of this is being done.
This is part 1 , there is a part 2 to this short. There is also a longer full version
Starting capsized. There is also a longer full version
