Wij houden van LBSC!

Dear friends,

Thursday, we had very nice wind conditions and the kids sailed very well. We were glad about the progress of the kids, we noticed that their sailing skills have increased a lot. We took a lot of pictures, here are some of them.










Friday there wasn't a lot of wind, so we decided that they would follow the ribs. They had to make one line which took a lot of time, but it was a good exercise for them. In the afternoon we gave some theory, we explained them once more how to tack and how to gybe. We learned them the four knots and even how to say 'we love sailing' in Dutch. They did it very good, so we tought them an other sentence, which was : "Wij houden van RBSC." The pronunciation of the R was a little bit difficult for them, so it was more like Wij houden van LBSC instead of RBSC. But funny anyway! Afterwards they taught us the sentence in Chinese: Wo ai fen tshuan ("ik hou van zeilen"). The intonation was very difficult.



To finish the day we explained the race of Saturday morning. We made them aware about the things that are forbidden in the race like paddling, crashing, “wrikken”, starting to early, etc.



Saturday they raced very good. The first part of the race was a very tough one between Michael and Diana. Finally Michael did a nice catch up to overtake Diana, but he was a little too late to overtake George, who would be the future winner of the race!

See you in a while.
The Shanghai Team