Day 2 for the ACON girls

What clever young salts our ACON girls have turned out to be. We all met at the pontoon again on Saturday and without much ado hoisted the sails and set off for the main harbour. Laura, who missed out on the race a fortnight ago, was excited about going under the bridge. Lease was proudly sporting an excellent reef knot in the rope holding her pants up. Once under way they all demonstrated that they remembered the rest of the knots they learned last time. That's more than can be said for some of the regular crew!

We did a lot of tacking as they all got used to the process and the effort with the winches and then we picked up a mooring at Milk Beach in Rose Bay. After a quick bite to eat we set them all a rowing test. Get in the dinghy, row around the boat, return to the ladder and get out again.
Lea works it out

One by one they set off and not one of them capsized, lost an oar or had to be rescued. We did have Julie on standby to jump in but it wasn't necessary. It had occurred to me as Emma was getting the hang of the "oars in unison" thing that maybe we should have attached them with a long line but as it eventuated it wasn't needed.
Laura in the dinghy

And then we put up the sails again and sailed home. We seem to have a new crew in the making.