What would you do if you had the chance to go to a yacht
club and sail in the middle of the San Francisco Bay?
Well, that is what 9 IYEL-ers, and 3 Crissy Field Center
staff did this past weekend.
We all arrived at the center on an early cold rainy Saturday
hoping that we would have the chance to go sailing. We had some muffins and Jie
led a check-in activity where we played a game. The concept of the game was to
have the team stand on a tarp and to work as a team to grab a sharpie marker
for every single IYELer because that was the only way to survive.
After that check-in we walked on over to the St. Francis
Yacht Club. When we arrived we met our instructor and guide named Katie. We
walked on up to our very own personal room, where there was coffee and orange
juice prepared for us. Once we put down our belongings we were led on a tour of
the club and we got to see “behind the scenes” of the club. We saw the Olympic
medals from past sailors who were a part of the club.
After the tour we headed back into our room for a very
informative introductory lesson about sailing!
We learned how to tie specific knots with the lines (what they are called in sailing).
Once we learned 3 different type of knots, we raced each other to see who could
do them the fastest! We also played other games where we got to test our skills
from what we learned from the lesson! It got quite competitive and some participants
got bruises, but at the end it was a lot of fun.
After that we had a beautiful deli buffet set out for us!
Once we were finished eating we met two other instructors
named Adam and Steven and prepared for our sailing trip. Everyone looked warm
and cozy and got ready to sail. Thankfully the rain cleared up just in time for
us to sail!
We headed down to the boats and were split into 3 boats! In the beginning it
was quite scary knowing how the boats could capsize but in the end we knew we
were safe! I was in a boat with with Renee, JM, and Silver. We all got the
chance to steer. When we got back to the club we cleaned ourselves up a little
and went back up to our room with hot chocolate and cookies prepared for us!
We had a little debrief, played a couple more games, thanked
Katie and headed on back to the center! All in all it was a great experience as
terrifying as it was in the beginning! Alright that’s it for today! Until next time!
This is Kathleen logging off!
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