Wednesday was our work summer outing, which turned out to be very fun. We went an activities centre little sailing like at Mepal. (I unsurprisingly keep a romantic attachment to sailing)
Sometimes such things turn out to be just a bit complicated, and I think it may have been for people who'd never been sailing at all, but I was familiar enough from a day or two I spent on a school trip; not of how to sail effectively, particularly, but enough to not worry if my life jacket was sufficient, or if I could recover from a capsize.
We were half a dozen of us sailing, and about the same doing archery+climbing. There was one instructor for sailing, and six little one-person boats (toppers). Nowadays those are mass-produced plastic hulls with mast+sail, boom, keel, and rudder fitted on. They're intended for kids, but can hold an adult if you can duck under the boom.
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Sometimes such things turn out to be just a bit complicated, and I think it may have been for people who'd never been sailing at all, but I was familiar enough from a day or two I spent on a school trip; not of how to sail effectively, particularly, but enough to not worry if my life jacket was sufficient, or if I could recover from a capsize.
We were half a dozen of us sailing, and about the same doing archery+climbing. There was one instructor for sailing, and six little one-person boats (toppers). Nowadays those are mass-produced plastic hulls with mast+sail, boom, keel, and rudder fitted on. They're intended for kids, but can hold an adult if you can duck under the boom.
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