Sailing, Sort Of

So I've been sailing for a few months now, I did a weeks worth last summer and then finally got round to joining a club this year. Every Sunday is a race day and normally we go out on the catamarans which look a little something like this:  

It is the most amazing feeling when you're flying over the waves, that is until you capsize and are left splashing around in the sea.
Anyway the other Sunday it was different we took picos (another type of boat, which is much smaller and less powerful) out in teams of four and the idea was that each person in the team would go round the course once each. So when it was my go I was awful, I just kept sailing into wind, I think, and getting no where. It was so embarrassing! Especially as it was in front of the entire club. But never mind it was fun.

To try and improve our chances in the third race we all sat on the boat, which is not a big boat let me tell you, so we were basically sitting in the water and each time we completed a lap of the course one of us would jump off the boat. This saved us time on swapping people on and off the boat but lets be honest it didn't work I think we may have come fairly near last. Thankfully the race official managed to get boats mixed up so we came 4th overall, apparently.

If you weren't on the boat there was still ways to help you're team out, for example you could detach the rudder, or run off with the dagger board. All parts needed to sail happily. My pump stays on while I sail, thankfully its waterproof.

However when I go out on the catamaran I find my sugar levels drop and I don't need the pump on, but if I'm sailing something smaller then my sugars are fine. What I think is the problem is that when I sail the Cats I'm a lot more excited and nervous as I haven't done nearly as much of that compared to sailing smaller boats. I could be wrong.

Rhona x