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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Today...

Just had the 3rd session of sailing at east coast sailing centre which is also our 2nd last session. Oh by the way, this is organised by ODAC. Wow.. all i can say is that it is really cool and fun. I must say that i really love sea sports. There's quite a lot of things to learn for sailing, judging from what our instructor told us that the full course is 16 full days, and our course of 4 sessions is like a crash course. Hence, i cant really say i had mastered sailing after these 4 sessions. Today got scolded by my instructor cos i never asked him when i don't understand and ended up in the 'No Go Zone' (means my boat was not moving). But after the scolding and the teaching, manage to understand about the techniques of sailing. Ok.. lesson learnt:
1. U can only sail 45 deg towards or away from the wind but not straight into the wind. ( I must say that this seems like common sense, but when u r in the waters, this is pretty hard.)
2. When the sail is luffing, u should bear away a little.
3. When u r sailing out in the sea, determine the direction of the wind first. Sometimes, 'instinct' plays a part too.

Oh, an achievement made is that I MaNaGe to SaiL BAcK To ShOrE On My Own! YaY! ( Sailing back to shore isn't easy. Rmb tt u can only sail 45 deg from the wind, so u have to aim at the correct angle.)
Anw, sailing out in the sea is all about the angle. (JuSt LikE PhYsIcS HahA!). The difficult thing is tt on land u can just walk to any point u want to go, but in the sea, U cant go to any point u want due to the wind factor. U have to think and make use of the knowledge of angle to help u.

Felt as if i was still on the sea when i was taking the MRT home tonite. I can feel the train turning and in which DiReCTion It iS turNinG To AlsO. The so called " train integrated into me". Reached highest LeVeL AlrEaDy. Haha! Just LaMe. Ok got to do my tutorial already. Signing off...

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