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After waking up and having a nice breakfast, we picked up anchor and motored around the corner to a bay where there used to be a sunken ship. We then anchored stern-to there, with stern lines again running to shore. The plan for this day was to not go anywhere, but to just have a relaxing day. So that’s what we did! There turned out to be a really cool deep water solo climb on the other side of the island. Deep water solo is where there is a cliff face jutting out from the sea, and a climber climbs on to the cliff from the sea, climbs up the cliff face without any ropes or support, and eventually jumps off back into the water. The jumping off could be a push-off after a slip, or could be a jump from the top after the summit is reached.
Steve, being the most experienced and skilled climber of the group, managed to climb up the cliff face twice, and jump off at different heights back into the sea. Pretty cool! The rest of us just did a bit of cliff jumping, from decent heights but nothing too scary.
In the afternoon I hopped in the dinghy with the coach and was able to get some dinghy practice in. The biggest learning I had during the dinghy practice is the speed to get the dinghy to start planing. You start off slolwy accelerating, and you keep accelerating as the bow of the dingy lurches up. After a certain point of accelearation, the bow sits back down, and you are on a planing trajectory. And you need to go quite fast in order to reach that planing speed. Otherwise I was just getting a feel for steering and handling the dinghy. I even tried a few “man overboard” drills with the dinghy, where you throw a floating object in the water then attempt to retrieve it– it took 4 attempts before Jenn and I were able to recover that man overboard. Guess I have some more practicing to do! 🙂
In the evening we had dinner, then realized that the boat charter next to us was having a full-on wedding! We had to wait a bit before going to sleep, because the drinking and festivities from our neighbors took some time to wind down and quiet down. But no harm done, and congrats to the newly wedded! Or I think it was more of a renewing of vows. Lights out!
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