I wanted to take a moment on this beautiful Saturday that God has blessed me with and write down what I did this week. Now that my class is finished with the classroom portion of our training, we have moved into the hands-on, more practical side of things. This week we have been going out on the 41’ small boats, conducting training. It has been a good challenge for me, getting me out of my comfort zone and learning new things.
I was terrified to drive the boat at first, but after taking the wheel and learning how to control the throttles, it actually turned out to be a blast! Yesterday we got a lot of practice driving the boat up to the pier…it is like learning how to parallel park but harder because you have to take the wind and current into consideration along with everything else. We also did a bunch of man overboard drills. We were learning how to maneuver the boat to be able to pick the person up out of the water.
For lunch each day we moored up to Yorktown pier. On Thursday a daycare class must have been out having a field trip to the beach, and they came over to our boats and were thrilled when we gave all the little three year olds tours of our small boats. The kids loved sitting in the driver’s seat pretending they were driving the boat. It was a lot of fun!
We have three more weeks of school here at Yorktown…then I will be heading to Maine! God supplies me with courage and excitement to serve Him there---way up in the northeast!
I was terrified to drive the boat at first, but after taking the wheel and learning how to control the throttles, it actually turned out to be a blast! Yesterday we got a lot of practice driving the boat up to the pier…it is like learning how to parallel park but harder because you have to take the wind and current into consideration along with everything else. We also did a bunch of man overboard drills. We were learning how to maneuver the boat to be able to pick the person up out of the water.
For lunch each day we moored up to Yorktown pier. On Thursday a daycare class must have been out having a field trip to the beach, and they came over to our boats and were thrilled when we gave all the little three year olds tours of our small boats. The kids loved sitting in the driver’s seat pretending they were driving the boat. It was a lot of fun!
We have three more weeks of school here at Yorktown…then I will be heading to Maine! God supplies me with courage and excitement to serve Him there---way up in the northeast!
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