"Governor's Harbour Sailing Club"
Swim and Sail 2007
This year's swim and sail camp started on Monday 6th August and continued every morning that week on the beach in Governor's Harbour. A total of 42 children attended the camp. Eight young children did the introductory swimming with Joann Cambridge, 19 children did the advanced swimming with Missy and 15 came to Mark and Camilla Adair to learn sailing, having already passed Missy's swimming test.
The first job for the sailers was to collect the boats from the sailing club store room kindly loaned to us by Bob Colman.
Here the Capri which was loaned to us by David Salter, is rigged and ready to sail with Camilla as instructor
and one of the two sunfish, loaned to us by Lawrence Griffin, sets off from the beach with boys who learned to sail on last years course.
Meanwhile Mrs.Cambridge's swimmers
and Missy's swimmers take to the water. Mrs. Kathy Colman donated swimming googles for all the children.
Missy demonstrates the crawl.
watched by her top students, who are anxious to be in the sailing program next year
The weather was kind to us all week and by Thursday all five boats were sailing round the harbour.
The safety boat was ably manned by Sam assisted by Marco
Everyone learned that sailing dinghys sometimes tip over, called a capsize, but they also learned to right the boat themselves and carry on sailing.
On the final day, Saturday, we held two races round the harbour.
The orange sail is a minifish loaned to us by Matt Hoopes from Rainbow, the white sail is Mark's Zuma.
minifish and sunfish
and "Skipper" Mark
The first race for helmsman and crew was won by Parick Similien (helm) and Ashton Johnson (crew) in the minifish with second place award going to Jacqueline Matera (helm) and Kenneth Bowles (crew) sailing one of the sunfish.
The second race was a solo race and was won by Patrick Similien in a sunfish with Jeremy Geriszerski in second place sailing the minifish.
The swimming races where held down at the steps, in a "swimming pool" created by bouys, floating rope and survey tape marking the three lanes.
Prizes were donated by Gale Griffin, Norma Johnson, Arthur Rolle, Eleuthera Supplies, Lord Byron and the Haynes Library.
After the races on Saturday we had cook out at Anchor Bay with buns donated by Daryl Smih and hamburgers and hot dogs donated by Angelika Giannakopoulos with the condiments supplied by Cathy Burrows.
The Governor's Harbour Sailing Club will continue to meet and sail every Wednesday at 1600 (four o'clock) and on Saturday mornings at 1000
We still need more sailing dinghys, instructors, life jackets, engines for safety boats, safety boats and drivers.
Please contact Mark Adams if you can help us in any way, or want to join the club.