A day with the navigation students

We went sailing with the grade 11 class from FCAC on Sunday May10th. Many of these students are in my grade 11 math class so I knew several of them. In their navigation class they have been learning many skills and today was the day that they put it to real practical use. They were put into three groups and they rotated around the boat at different stages of the day "being in charge" of different sets of ropes to control the sails, taking different readings (such as wind and travel speed), and throughout the day and everyone took a turn at steering the boat. It is harder than it looks. I was always in correction mode. Haha