My friends and I went on a sailing trip on my friend Matthew's yacht with his parents. We sailed from Mombasa to Pemba Island in Tanzania and back. There were four of us crew members on board the Safarini: Matthew, Arno, Alberto, and I. The yacht is a 10 man yacht, so it required a lot of work to sail for 5 days. This was my first time learning to sail on a yacht, I had been on a yacht before, but I was young and just a passenger on board. But on this trip, I was actively involved in many areas of operating the boat. I learnt many things on the trip: how to tie the knots correctly with a security hold, how to position the mainsail, how to raise the ginoa sail, how to plot a course on a map, how to follow the co-ordinates, how to steer the boat and stay on course, read all of the gauges and recognize wind speed and direction. I had other responsibilities on boards as well, including lowering and reeling in the anchor, cleaning the boat, and mooring the boat.
On the yacht I also learnt to fish, throughout the trip, we caught 3 tuna, 1 big one, 2 relatively small ones. We de-boned them, gutted them, and ate them as sushi the same day. The trip was hard work, but a great experience. I had many responsibilities on board, and I learnt that maintaining a yacht is a lot of hard work. Taking responsibility for the important tasks on the boat helped me understand and take responsibility for things off the boat, this proved to be very important as I was just starting the IB program at this time.
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