On Saturday Dad and I got to go sailing and again had a great time. We had good breeze for almost the whole day, and sailed from about 10am to 6pm. We initially headed towards Waiheke and got about half way from Motuihe to Putiki Bay before deciding that we would aim to sail around Motutapu/Rangitoto. The most challenging part for me was . Our next tack was intended to take us west of Rangitoto Light and get us to North Head. However we turned too soon and found ourselves pinching to get past Rangitoto Light. The wind had stengthened by this stage, and I found that hard on the wind the boat had a lot of weather helm and was quite difficult to keep on course. We eventually took a couple of additional tacks to get past North Head and into the harbour and then had a good reach up the harbour to Westhaven.
After getting back to the marina and packing the boat up we went straight around to Michelle and Jeremy’s for dinner. Some photos of Dad sailing and me and Victoria and Thom and Michelle and Jeremy’s are here.