Try Sailing Day
0 Comments Published by Svetlana Zhukova on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 12:17 PM.
There is this wonderful thing about Sydney: even if you don't have money, you can do amazing stuff. Like sailing. No boat, no money, no experience, but I was cruising the harbour on a racing sailboat last weekend :)
It's a part of NSW and ACT sailing clubs initiative - Try Sailing Day.
It means that everyone can rock up at any participating club, and will be taken out to the harbour for a quick tour. You don't get to sail per se, rather as a passenger, but people who sail the boats (owners who volunteer for the clubs) explain all they do on the water etc. And the best part - it doesn't cost anything!
The idea is to get people motivated to join sailing clubs, as boat owners (that day won't come soon for me), and also as helpers - there are harbour races every week, and they always need additional crew members. So basically you can turn up at a sailing club on Friday evening (twilight sailing), say you want to help, and they'll put you on a boat to help with some basic stuff. Recreation and adrenalin, and all for nothing :)
With Try Sailing Day, we were lucky to get on a smaller racing sailboat - no rails, just a small open deck and you sit on the side and hold the edge, and the mast with the sail is may be 8-10 meters tall, amazing :)
The guys told us the boat is going to tilt with the wind but not overturn (that's a consolation), but when we were getting out to the harbour, the boat actually stood almost 90 degrees to the water! the opposite edge of the boat to us was actually in the water! but we didn't fall, apparently the keel is made with a very something, and the boat physically can't overturn. But in any case, it gets enough adrenalin pumped through your veins when you are in the middle of the harbour on a racing boat going faaaast...
I'm very excited about the prospect of becoming a sailwoman :) (and by the way I already did a beginner course a couple of months ago with Karan in Balmain, which was awesome, we were sailing by ourselves then :)))
Below are a few pics from the Try Sailing Day, and the rest is on flickr HERE
It's a part of NSW and ACT sailing clubs initiative - Try Sailing Day.
It means that everyone can rock up at any participating club, and will be taken out to the harbour for a quick tour. You don't get to sail per se, rather as a passenger, but people who sail the boats (owners who volunteer for the clubs) explain all they do on the water etc. And the best part - it doesn't cost anything!
The idea is to get people motivated to join sailing clubs, as boat owners (that day won't come soon for me), and also as helpers - there are harbour races every week, and they always need additional crew members. So basically you can turn up at a sailing club on Friday evening (twilight sailing), say you want to help, and they'll put you on a boat to help with some basic stuff. Recreation and adrenalin, and all for nothing :)
With Try Sailing Day, we were lucky to get on a smaller racing sailboat - no rails, just a small open deck and you sit on the side and hold the edge, and the mast with the sail is may be 8-10 meters tall, amazing :)
The guys told us the boat is going to tilt with the wind but not overturn (that's a consolation), but when we were getting out to the harbour, the boat actually stood almost 90 degrees to the water! the opposite edge of the boat to us was actually in the water! but we didn't fall, apparently the keel is made with a very something, and the boat physically can't overturn. But in any case, it gets enough adrenalin pumped through your veins when you are in the middle of the harbour on a racing boat going faaaast...
I'm very excited about the prospect of becoming a sailwoman :) (and by the way I already did a beginner course a couple of months ago with Karan in Balmain, which was awesome, we were sailing by ourselves then :)))
Below are a few pics from the Try Sailing Day, and the rest is on flickr HERE
Labels: sailing, sydney harbour, sydney is awesome, things to do
0 Responses to “Try Sailing Day”
Post a Comment