Re: Competent Crew Course.
- From: soolie <sooolie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:58:19 +0000
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:13:05 -0000, "TonyB" <hatt.j.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"soolie" <sooolie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:35:04 +0100, soolie <sooolie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am due to board in a few days time onto a Jeanneau 36i. Will I be
able to charge my mobile phone and laptop does anyone know? I have
asked the organisers too many questions already to trouble them with
more such as this.
I done 3 days of the course over the weekend. I used my mobile just to
wish my wife goodnight and ensure there were no pressing issues for me
to deal with. I took a book which I never had a chance or inclination
to look at. I used a fleece and a thermal vest. I took a change if
clothing that was unnecessary baggage and much to much cold weather
clothing. I made one big mistake in doing 3 days straight off. It was
much too physical and by the end of one day I was extremely tired. By
the end of the second day I was exhausted and my colostomy was
starting to smell even though I ate only one small meal a day. I was
able to change a pouch on board in my single cabin but I had to leave
the ventilation completely open. There was no way I could change the
flange which had pancaked due to wearing a tight thermal vest.
The course itself was excellent and I would recommend the East Anglian
School of Saiting at Levington to anybody but if like me you are 65
years old, need a wheelchair to get ashore and have a colostomy and
are generally very weak I would recommend you try and do the course
in daily or at the most two dally segments at a time because when you
become exhausted you are concentrating on surviving rather than
learning and you will not be able to enjoy your sail.
I hope this information will encourage other cripples with a reasonably
amount of mobility to also try sailing and then work on to become an
instructor in a disability sailing club where many are completely
paraplegic but still enjoy a ride.I shall be completing the course next weekend
by finishing my last two days.
Blimey Soolie, you didn't say you had all that to put up with!
The advice on the group may have been slightly different if we had known.
Glad you enjoyed it though, and thanks to your recommendation I shall
look into that school for my Yachtmaster practical. I have been looking
at Trafalgar Sailing in Gibraltar but with the flights it may become a
little pricey.
I am, however, something of an expert on colostomies and wonder if
you have considered the type with a charcoal filter at all?
I do use charcoal filters and I can only think the flange moved due to
the extra muscular movements I had to make. I have emphysema and
schema too so I paced myself but there were times I was munching heart
tablets as if they were Smarties:-) The course is very intensive as
there is so much to learn and each member of the crew has a go so the
only break is actually when you are eating or sleeping. The School
provides top rate waterproof clothing at £5 per night. The boats are
based near the lightship and it has a Bar and Restaurant
which I never used. The school trains every aspect needed even down
to children's dingy training and it is a very easy going and friendly
family company and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
http://www.eastanglianseaschool.com
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