Flying over the water.

Today nothing special happened. It was a tempestuous day and thus some precautions had to be taken. In morning the weather was not so heavy as in noon, so the kids sailed on the lake. In the afternoon we took only the 8 motivated kids with us to the little bay were the ribs are placed. It's a part of the lake but good seperated by some trees and bridges. The result is that there are no waves and the wind is less powerful than on the lake.

Again we were suprised how the kids sailed around the marks. To learn how to hold their course, a rib drove in front of them and they must follow it as good as they could. Amazing how they did it!! You can imagine how happy we are... :-)

After that, Anne-Sophie teached Mike and Kevin how to let an opitimist fly over the water. Great! She used all her skills to make good sailers of them. In the meantime Mathieu and Laurent went sailing on the Tirion yacht. Heavy weather (nevertheless for here: it was 3bft and the waves were 30cm heigh) so they tought they would have a nice afternoon. Together with the local trainer and two students, it went well for 15 minutes. Unfortunately a loud bang suddenly jerks the traveller of the mainsheet out of this rail. There it goes our nice afternoon.... So back to the land with an engine who works like hell, it's was more fighting with the chinese material than explaining what sailing is. For a yacht that nearly new, our expectations were totaly different.

Bubaai!