First day as a proper skipper!!! 🤓⛵️

Perrine Louvet

One to remember!! My first time actually being the most experienced person on a boat. Like actually the CAPTAIN. Was I terrified the entire time? Yes. Did I do a good job at hiding it? I think so. Did I want to throw up by the end? Yes. Was it the stress or the 2m beam-on swell? We’ll never know. Lessons from today: don’t underestimate the light breeze when coming out of a berth. Was so focused on the sharp turn out I didn’t go hard enough and the 60 deg wind blew me straight into the anchors of the boats across… made it out mostly unscathed (aside from my ego). Stayed calm and kept the nerves to myself, which i am pretty proud of. Forever life goal is to be a calm and confident skipper. Rest of the day was all good despite pretty gross conditions, heavy swell and no wind on the tiniest cruiser I’ve ever been on. But we anchored beautifully and now looking forward to getting rocked to sleep :)) One challenge closer to being the captain of my own boat ❤️