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Optimist yachting

Optimist yachting was a cool experience

Arriving at optimist yachting, we bolted off the huge bus and prepared for optimist yachting.  

Once we hopped off the bus, we had to put all of our gear on like life jacket, togs covered shoes, hat, and more. After that, we split up into rooms sixteen/seventeen. Sixteen was doing tubing and Seventeen was doing yachting. When we were told to go to our spots, we sprinted like Usain Bolt to the tubes. Me and my friends Reed, Jaedyn, and Rico grabbed the pango tyres so that we can do manus on it. Also that it can fit all of us on it.

Hanging on to each other, sun beating down on us, we took turns jumping off. Cold water hit me taking my breath away. After that Reed and Jaedyn thought of jumping on the black tube at the shallow end. While they were jumping on to the black tube, Mrs Borger took a video of them in slow motion. When they were running to the tyre Jaedyn sprinted off and landed on it first. Once they did it about ten times I jumped in but I was landing on my on black tyre. When it was our last turn to jump on it we decided to swim like Michael Phelps as fast as the wind around buoy 2 and back and Reed won. Once we finished with the tubes we switched over with room seventeen and did sailing, paddling, and kayaking.

When we headed over Mr Russ said “ We are going to try paddling”. then after that, me and Te amo hopped on to a boat and grabbed the special ores. Once we hopped on, we had to wait for the other people to get ready and start paddling like a speedboat to the other island. When we started the race me and Te amo raced to the island like a torpedo soaring through the beautiful sea. First ones that made it to the island and back was me, Te amo, and Samson. On the boat, Samson did the rudder and me and Te amo did the paddling.

After that, I went on the kayak and Sean, Jaedyn, and Quaylo went on the huge 3 seat kayak and Layton on the other kayak. Once we were Kayaking on the amazing sea, we had a race to buoy 2 and back they were winning at the start but I won it at the end because I do canoe polo. While I was paddling on the sea, Reed asked me “ can I have a turn” and I said “ yes“. So I jumped out into the freezing water and handed it to Reed ( also a canoe polo player ). When Reed jumped in he said “thanks” and I replied “your welcome.” It was close to our time is done on the sea and going back to school. But I had one final time on the yacht with a sail and capsized. It was so fun that I could go under it and breathe. Also, I could flip it back over and it could still float. While we were doing capsizing Mr. Russ said “everyone come in that’s time” so everyone started sailing back in and kayaking. While the yachts were coming back in I was one of the first to come in so I helped with the yachts and pulled them back up.

Finally, I went to go get change. While I was in the changing rooms I was so freezing that I thought there was snow. So I got change fast like the flash and got back outside in the scorching hot sun. Once I got outside, we were allowed to eat our yummy food and it tasted delicious. When we were done we headed back to school on the humongous bus and felt tired at the end.

A that was my cool experience at Optimist Yachting.

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