Sarah and I are really enjoying our sailing course with the National Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire (http://www.nyc.ie/)
Sarah's Mum's cousin Cynthia and Andrew Gray introduced us to the club and told us about the adult sailing course.
It started last week - and runs every Wednesday and Friday evening in June. We are sailing 1720s yachts (crew of 5 plus an instructor). There are also one man dinghys (Toppers) but I haven't tried one yet.
We didn't do any sailing at all on the first evening due to a lack of wind - however, we spent a very pleasant evening sitting on the boat in the middle of the harbour soaking up the sunshine. On the Friday we got under way practising manouevres out in Dublin Bay, and yesterday with the wind stronger still, we became more adventurous and sailed around Dalkey Island and back to Dun Laoghaire harbour. As it is raining hard now, I am not sure we will be sailing tomorrow evening - so we may stay ashore and learn how to tie knots!
Our instructor, Cian, is excellent, very knowledgeable and only 18.
We have drinks and nibbles in the club house bar and chat with the Commodore! Watch this space...
It started last week - and runs every Wednesday and Friday evening in June. We are sailing 1720s yachts (crew of 5 plus an instructor). There are also one man dinghys (Toppers) but I haven't tried one yet.
We didn't do any sailing at all on the first evening due to a lack of wind - however, we spent a very pleasant evening sitting on the boat in the middle of the harbour soaking up the sunshine. On the Friday we got under way practising manouevres out in Dublin Bay, and yesterday with the wind stronger still, we became more adventurous and sailed around Dalkey Island and back to Dun Laoghaire harbour. As it is raining hard now, I am not sure we will be sailing tomorrow evening - so we may stay ashore and learn how to tie knots!
Our instructor, Cian, is excellent, very knowledgeable and only 18.
We have drinks and nibbles in the club house bar and chat with the Commodore! Watch this space...
3 comments:
welcome to the world of blogging :-)
and welcome to the world of sailing too - better late than never :-)
Hi David and Sarah! I've been checking out your blog page ever since I saw you comment on Andrews's! Each time I was faced with a cover page but no content - now I'm pleased to see content! Glad you're enjoying the sailing. Mum and dad are taking my topper over in the summer to be used by all the family again as unfortunately it has spent some years as a water-feature in our garden!!! Love to you both. Lou, Kev and Nathaniel xxx
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