Author: echo zhou
Editor's note: The captain is a dreamer, and the name of the ship is also called dream cather. In her words, the charm of sailing is that "sailing is like traveling with your own home." The outside of the ship is far away, and inside the ship is a warm home, sweet home. Sailing Poetry and The Distant: The Achievable Way of Life. ”
About the author: Captain Echo. Cantonese. She came to Australia in the mid-1990s and was an English teacher before coming to Australia. As a teenager, she was influenced by the Taiwanese writer Sanmao. When she was studying at the Guangdong Foreign Language Normal School, foreign teachers from the United States and the United Kingdom taught oral and reading classes, requiring students to have English names, so she used Sanmao's English name: echo. It has been used in Australia until now. Echo likes travel photography, has the dream of traveling around the world, and hopes to one day travel around the world like Sanmao, experience different cultures, and have a colorful life.
She fell in love with sailing and learned that she could travel by car. Before she met the sailing boat, she had the dream of planning to travel around the world in a car. It was later discovered that sailing ships were powered by the winds of nature and could travel across the ocean as long as the boat was suitable and had enough food and water. She found sailing greener than her previous dream of driving around the world in a self-driving car. The energy on a sailboat (supplying instruments and lighting on board) can be solar, wind and hydro. It's a sustainable way of traveling.
Sailing a sailboat is like taking your own home with you. The outside of the ship is far away, and inside the ship is a warm home, sweet home. Sailing Poetry and The Distant: The Achievable Way of Life.
Echo has always liked to experience different cultures, so the history of human evolution, geography, science, and economics have always been areas of great interest to her. Sailing on a sailboat allows her to put this knowledge of interest into practice! So her curiosity about sailing was ignited, and she owned her own sailboat and took her family to drive the sailboat to the far side. In the process of playing she became a sailing instructor. Active in the sailing circle of Australia.
Echo in Sydney Harbour
As a Sydneysider, Jevis Bay has always been a favorite destination for me to travel around Sydney. Her white sand beach is very famous, and the sand on the beach is as fine as flour. In his early years, he and his friends and family went to Jevis Bay to camp, swim, snorkel and hike. Camping camps, when you come back from hiking or swimming in the afternoon, you can see a kangaroo family lying outside your tent for sunbathing, colorful parrots singing next to it. Left a lot of good memories in Jevis Bay.
Colorful parrots in tents
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Why did you choose Jevis bay as your destination? The rationale is simple, about 90 nautical miles away from Sydney Harbour, which can be reached in one night, perfect for trying outshore sailing training with novices. This time the team in Ashton and Evan is the first time to shore,. Many people find offshore very hard, in order to encourage everyone to experience sailing and enjoy offshore sailing. Jevis bay is a good choice, a relatively short journey, but all the training required by the offshore can be exercised, and after arriving at the destination, the team members who have experienced the offshore training together will either hate each other or become very good friends. Haha, because the journey is relatively short, nasty, it is easy to return to Sydney, become a good friend, and form a friendship. Eventually, after challenging yourself on a journey, you'll cherish and enjoy the famous beauty of Jevis Bay. Leisure activities include fishing, paddle boarding, snorkeling, swimming And that's what sailing is all about: enjoy cruising. Chill out, relax, having fun. This trip caught a lot of fish, cooked freshly, with bbq, soy sauce boiled, and fried. Fresh + do-it-yourself = delicious!
Here's a look at how to prepare as a captain for the shore.
Boat aspect: The first condition of offshore is whether the boat is suitable for offshore.
The dreamcatcher is the European commission's recreational craft directive (RCD) of Europe's standard Class A vessel. a stands for ocean. Ocean is defined as capable of resisting winds above level 8 and resisting waves of 4 meters or more, and the design of the boat is lagely self-suficicient.
Boat rigging
Generally speaking, the rigging on the ship is divided into fixed steel rope and soft rope, and the rigging generally has a lifespan of about 10 years, especially for offshore sailing. Our ship Dreamcatcher has just had her fixed steel rope and most of the soft rope completely new.
Electronic instruments
Before fixing the automatic helm. Two spare vhfs.
Inspection before departure
Check the instruments on the ridge and mast tops on the mast.
Sail side sails
reefing and downwind sailing :rigging a preventer . The ropes are ready.
On the crew side, the captain needs to consider whether your crew is competent for offshore sailing
Mia: Has experience playing in sydney to hobar
Sail: I had previous experience with offshore sailing
Ashton and Evan have experience as sailors in Sydney Harbour, and Offshore Sailing is new.
Weather window departure time
As Jimmy Cornell, the titan of sailing, said in his book 200,000 Nautical Miles: A Lifetime of Adventure: so i set a date of departure and we left as long as the wind direction is right. Set the time, as long as the wind is in the right direction, you can go. Check the weather forecast on different weather platforms before you go. Captains need to know the differences in the forecast patterns of different weather platforms and cross-check.
This time I used 3 platforms to check the weather
Australian Weather Service bom, the most important authority.
Navigation software navigonics paid version, with weather tides and other information.
app preditwind。
View the weather for the entire route, the weather for different time periods, including wind, ocean currents, surges, temperatures, barometric pressure, whether it is raining, etc.
Crew and watches crew on duty
The captain needs to be matched according to the experience of the crew, this time I chose a 3-hour shift. The captain needs to be there at the time of each shift handover to ensure a smooth handover. Or whether to shrink the sails or rigging a preventer before the weather changes.
Meals provisions Food preparation
According to the weather forecast before departure, if you know that the weather is not suitable for cooking food, you will prepare the food in advance, and you only need to simply heat it to eat it when you eat. The crew came from different places, communicated the facts well, and prepared food that was suitable for everyone.
Route planning
Route Design: Explain the route plan to the crew before departure, such as what safe havens are on our route in case of bad weather. Tell everyone how to enter the planned route into the electronic device. The choice of anchorage of the target explains to everyone that the choice of anchorage needs to be considered.
Engine, water, food, etc
Secure cree briefing
Safety briefing for the crew and handling of emergencies prior to departure.
In offshore sailing preparation and sailing, the details are everything, and safety always comes first.
The equipment on the ship should be placed according to the purpose, and to ensure safety, so that it will not be damaged, and can be quickly taken out when needed.
The captain must assign work according to the ability of the crew, and must not put the crew in a position that does not match her/his ability. The captain's job is to adjust according to the state of your members, make everyone's work easy to complete, and maximize the things that each member is good at, so that everyone can enjoy the fun of sailing. Turn a challenging voyage into a memory.