First Cruising Mentoring Session on Akimbo

Trip dates: 
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Trip length: 
1 day
Type of watercraft: 
Sail

I went out with Rebekah and James on Akimbo for 5 hours. Rebekah walked me through the presail checks and other maintenance concerns, the we departed and got some practice motoring backwards, doing pivot turns, raising the lowering the sails, heaving-to, and reefing.