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    Day three 28/11/19

    The third day was similar to the second day, but we were looking at recovering larger and multi hall sailing boats. This is when it became more challenging to rescue due to the boats being larger and having to tow the boats upright. I found having to tow the boats upright problematic at times because having to line the power boat 90 degrees to the sailing boat sounds easy but I didn’t realise how much the current takes the boat and having to compensate to that took a bit of getting used to.

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    Day two 15/11/19

    The second day started better than the last as we were given a bit more information about what we were going to be doing on the water and started to do some of the rescues we needed to know. When doing the rescues John (our instructor for the course) didn’t really give us any advice on how to right the single-handed sailing boat and were left to experiment to see what worked. Apart from the short time John was on our boat me and Luke were left pretty much alone and to our own devises. From this way John was teaching us the syllabus for the course I figured that he was a laissez faire leadership style as we were given a lot of freedom and little instructional input on how to perform the rescues. I found this quite enjoyable as me and Luke could try different types of rescues and see which works best. The reason why I found this enjoyable is because it felt like we had freedom to try different rescue methods. A trouble I would have found with this was that if I hadn’t already done my safety boat qualification, I would have struggled to know how to complete the rescue as we weren’t told the ‘correct’ way at the start.

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    • Post 1 – Welcome to Edublogs

    Day one 14/11/19

    The first day of the safety boat course I was somewhat I was feeling like a little kid with excitement to drive a power boat even though I have several years’ experience with driving boats just something about getting to drive a power boat still excites me. Inevitably the first day was slow to start as we were shown were all the equipment for the boats are stored and what we need to put together in safety barrels and things to check on the boats. The first half of the day was spent familiarising ourselves with the boats and how they handled whilst going over a few simple manoeuvres such as turning I a tight space and picking up a mooring. For me this was a bit of an eye opener as I have never really driven a power boat in tidal waters and was quite surprised with how much the tide affected how the boat manoeuvred when trying to do the precise moves. Overall I found the first day of the safety boat course quite slow progression as we didn’t really touch on any rescues.