Beach Week 2020 - Sailing at Worser Bay Boating Club

The finale for Beach Week 2020 was sailing with Worser Bay Boating Club. Ngā mihi nui to Polly, Harvey and Hugo for showing us the ropes! We revisited our learning from the Kōkōkaha program we did in class (see Float My Boat, Sail Power, History of Sailing & Sail Away). Tāwhirimātea had been active this week, but was kind to us for two and a half of the planned four days. Many of us were sailing for the first time and with just a little wind we were able to get a feel for the Opti dinghys.

 

During Kōkōkaha, we learnt about boat stability and keels/centreboards by experimenting in class. Sailing for real, we learnt that the centreboard is also used to lever the boat upright after capsizing. 
 

 

Polly and Harvey kept us right in the IRBs. Conditions were such that we could choose whether to capsize or not. The water wasn't too icy so some of us got in quite a lot of practice! 

 

I pai tēnā wiki, ka rawe koutou! 

Our work presented at the Worser Bay Boating Club!

The Worser Bay Boating Club is having a revamp. Part of this is making the club an educational facility.

As a starting point, they are presenting some of our Marine Inquiries and Penguin house designs to be enjoyed by the public and members of the club.

Check them out!

Working with Worser Bay Boating Club

We have been lucky to be working with Dean Stanley at the Worser Bay Boating Club to help develop ideas about the club's expansive new vision which includes a classroom. Dean came in and spoke to our senior students on Wednesday, leaving them particularlry excited about the coming:
 - penguin hotels
 - anemone garden
 - paua nursery

Today we went down to the Worser Bay Boating club rooms, got curious asked questions, researched, investigated rock pools, drew some initial design ideas and played in the sand. We look forward to sharing some of our work with you and others visiting the boating club soon.

Learning to sail optimists

We've had great support from Worser Bay Boating Club to enable all our students to have a try at sailing optimists. Emma and her team - Elliot, Zoe, Polly and Penny - talked to the students about the basics of sailing and the wind direction and then everyone had a turn. We were able to sail on Monday and Friday mornings and all day on Thursday.

The coaches were really nice and it was a great experience - Hugo M
We got to play sponge tag when you thrown the sponge into the tag and you're in , it was fun- Pippa
Sailing can be fun or it can be a good story. Like on some days it can be scary and then it's a good story - Bethen