Last Thursday Room 6 and Room 7 walked down to the Panmure Basin. As we were walking there my legs felt tired. These pretty girls named Steph, Ellie and this cool man Blair were there to teach us about sailing a boat. I was excited.
Room 7 went sailing first and Room 6 went to do some land activities. Some of the activities were about making knots, pulleys and all of the Room 6 liked the pulleys the most because Mrs Bell\Room 7 teacher grabbed a bag full of sand and we had to use the pulley and rope to lift it up.
Room 7 finished sailing and while they were sailing these girls named Graziel and Marii flipped their boat 3 times while they were in it and then Room 6 got to go sailing. We had to choose a partner and my partner was Thalia and we went on the boat and I was the one who controlled the boat with the rudder. Thalia was the one who controlled the sail with the rope.
Steph and Ellie threw some rubber ducks and Thalia and I got ducks called Harold, Otis, Waffle, Gerald, Harper. Thalia’s favourite duck was Otis and mine was Harper. Then I wanted to swim in the water so I just jumped off and had a little swim.
After I had a swim I wanted to get in my boat but it was very hard so Thalia tried to help me but she couldn’t so she jumped off to try to help me but she forgot that you can’t help people in the water because the boat drifts away! So Kava and Spencer came to us and helped us.
After that we hopped off the boat and we got changed and I was so hungry. After all that fun we had to write a feedback form for NZ Sailing. We also helped to get the boats clean and tidy. I was so happy when we got back to school to see my other friends. Thank you so much NZ Sailing for this fun day!
