First Sailing experience!

I visited Julce and João and I got invitation to go for sailing with João (Alone :-)).  The destination place was other booster for me! It is one of my favorite places in Portugal, Viana de castelo.

FYI: João has 60 years of sailing experience! That I came to know bit later! 

Sunday morning I was ready and bit excited to go for sailing. (Honestly I had no clue how is it going to be!)

So we were at the Marina.  João was preparing everything.

Here we go.  Julce & João. Julce drove us until Marina. I asked Julce if it is fine to go with him alone :-). She said  she is happy for me and interesting thing is she said if it was other woman she would never allow. Positive signal from Julce made me happy :-). So my friends have good trust!

The water looked so clean but unfortunately these fishes are not to eat!

Here I am ready to go! 

João (Captain) was teaching me how to control the boat. He said if I knew how to drive car it is easy. Ha ha ha. When I got my turn I tried to keep the angle I did move steering like in car. I was stupid I should wait for its response (because we are above the water not on the road), instead I was rotating and the boat turned really the opposite direction. Got Good lesson. Now I know how it works.  

Okay. Other interesting thing was I really wanted to take a one pretending photo of me sailing :-). But, what happened was I was really sailing all the time and my captain was instructing me so we didn't find time to take much pretending photos nor found time to eat and drink coffee. (I imagined completely a different journey). But sailing gave me more satisfaction despite hunger.

At first captain instructed me to follow the direction of windmill. It was much easier.

After we crossed that it was very challenging for me to keep the direction. I had to take care of many things. Keep the angle and control the head and main sails, and I should not cross some fishing stuff floated on the water. That was plenty! :-(

On our way, I saw other boat. João said they are his friends. I dont know how could he recognize. But again 60 yrs of experience I had no doubt! 

When they were passing us we said hello and they took few photos of us. I should ask those through João.

It was one of the perfect days João told me. I liked very much the reflection of sun on water. 

Though it was a very warm day I was freezing! So finally we reached the Viana de castelo dock! It was like 5 hours journey! I had good time.

As I said I didn't find time to take photos. May be next time! 

First of all I didn't expect that João would give me his boat (Has three bed rooms) to handle, though I have zero experience. He said I would make good crew and He is willing to take me for more journeys :-). 

He said he can completely trust me because I was listening his instructions all the time! 

Thanks very much you both Julce and João! Your trusts mean a lot to me!