Have been in sunny Cairns for 8 days and if this is winter I could get used to it. Average temp is mid to high 20s and lows of 16.
The Cairns Yacht Club offers free sailing lessons on Saturday afternoons and today was lesson #2. Smart ass instructor asked if perhaps 90 degrees was a different measurement in Canada when I failed to tack properly.
I can barely type, my wrists and hands are so sore from letting the sails in and out all afternoon. Had my turn on the tiller and by the end of the afternoon had pretty much stopped screaming when the boat heeled over and water started coming in. Every other Sunday they have races that you can sign on for so that's the plan for tomorrow. The boats are J24's (24 feet in length) and the instructors are determined to make racers out of all of us. On Fridays they have a BBQ and twilight sail and Wednesday afternoons there's a social sail so I'm bound to get my fill of sailing.
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