Well our short sailing semester is now over. The boats are secured for summer, just in case we have another hurricane. The time has come to pack all the gear away, unrig the boats, put the masts in storage.
Here are the die-hard sailors, taking the masts down on our FJs. For the beginners, it's still like a class on boat parts & terminology.
We had more cadets returning to the sailing squad this spring; not all of our "Advanced" cadre attended every session but we usually got some of the FJs out, and some of the advanced skippers helped with training the beginners. This is a very good way to do it!
The advanced sailors also got to test their skills against the 5O5 this spring. So far we have had some great sailing and some not-so-great, but nobody has crashed or capsized the 5-oh! yet even when gybing in 15+ kt winds.
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Here is Coach Hittner's cadets putting FJ #2 to bed for the summer. As always Coach Rezab is keeping a close eye on us!
Unfortunately the weather was not good for our classes this spring, we had fewer sailing sessions and very few cadets managed to complete the sailing drills. It takes some work to complete this class, you can't just claim to be a skipper by showing up!
Here is Coach Murphy and a couple of the beginner sailors working on FJ #1
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Small but elite group of New Bern sailing cadets... the class started out as 23, and about twice as many as in this photo usually attended. But this gang got the job done!
... photos by Coach Fred Cornford
... posted by Assistant Coach Douglas King
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