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A fun day on a sail boat

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chin:
From the pictures, you probably can already see lots of ropes, pulleys, and other equipments on this sail boat.

The last time I went with this boat, the boatman then was able to up hoist the two sails, control the boat, then took down the sails all by himself!

chin:
Now the we were trying to start hoist the sail, and do some real sailing.

June, our Philippino captain, was doing this almost all by himself.

chin:
June at work!

My friend "borrowed" June from a friend, because his own captain left the job. I was told that it's not easy to find a replacement because there are not many boatman who knows sail boat. Finding a regular power boat captain is a lot easier.

chin:
June said he has been working with the same employer in Hong Kong for 12 years. And the last time he set sail was 3 years ago.

The boat owners in Hong Kong mostly prefer power boats. Looking at my pictures taken at the marina, out of the total 200 or so berths, about 50 boats were at the berths, and only 5 or so sailboats.

chin:
I ask June why he kept looking up.

I was told that when hoisting the sail, the boat needs to be heading into the wind, and this was done by observing the wind arrow on top of the mast. And when sailing, the little pieces of "tails" on the sail would indicate the efficiency of the sailing. Thus the captain needs to keep looking at the sail.

Anyway, after a while, one of us was getting seasick. We thus decided to lower the sail and turn on the engine. June almost single handedly completed the transformation, with my friend steadying the boat. (I was supposed to help but was too busy taking pictures.  ::))

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