Welcome to Yachting Girls

Welcome to a blog where the adventures of a team of crazy women who are mad about sailing can be shared.
We are living in the beautiful Huon Valley in Tasmania, surrounded by outstanding sailing waters.  In June 2007 my husband and I purchased a Columbia 27 cruising yacht.  My husband crews in a Top Hat 24 in the races held by the Port Cygnet Sailing Club so our yacht was going to sit idle for most of the sailing season.  A great idea came to us - lets have an all women crew and take on the men!

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Round 1 - Meeting the new skipper!

As an amateur sailer I had no confidence in knowing how to sail our new yacht and little idea regarding the rules of racing!  In a "light bulb" moment I thought to check the website of Yachting Tasmania to see if any clubs listed there had women on their committees. Having found three women involved with three different clubs I emailed them all in the hope that they may know someone who would be interested in training a group of women in the art of race sailing.  I had three enthusiastic local yacht club widows interested in joining the crew - but no one wanted to captain the rest- hence the emails.  Only one of the contacted people was interested enough to reply and this enthusiastic dingy sailer - Anne - was hooked. We decided that we would have a practice sail on the opening day of the season.  The other crew couldn't make it so a third  member - Lorna - was roped in to help. So there were three of us - two experts and a nervous novice - me!  Happily we all got on very well and muddled around out on the water trying to come to terms with an unknown boat. - It was nerve racking but fun...

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