On Thursday, the twenty-fourth of April, we had a sailing meet at home against Martha's Vineyard. It was a very cold day out on the water that day, but the wind was just perfect. Varsity sailed, and we lost to Martha's Vineyard. Following the Varsity races, we had JV races. I sailed with Emily, who I have sailed with many times before. We communicate and work well together. We started sailing in the race, doing an awesome job. All of our tacks were on point, and we were trying out best to hike as far out of the boat as we could, to keep the boat from capsizing. We were in second place out of six boats which is spectacular, not to mention we were facing Martha's Vineyard who is undefeated. One certain time when we tacked, we went from port tack to starboard tack. As I sprung up underneath the sail to the starboard side of the sailboat, I started hiking right away because the boat was heeling up on the port side. However, I missed the hiking strap with my feet so I fell off the side of the boat! The hiking strap is a strap that goes from the mast area to the back of the boat. This strap is used when a sailor is hiking, or leaning out of the boat to stop the boat from heeling. When I sprung the starboard side, I had to immediately start hiking, as the boat was heeling. I missed the hiking strap with my feet, so I lost control and fell over the side of the boat backwards, into the water. As soon as I realized that Emily was sailing away in the boat alone... I started swimming after the boat and soon enough, when Emily went to un-cleat (unhook) the jib (small, front sail) she tipped the boat over! When I eventually made it over to the boat, we both started trying to pull the centerboard down and flip the boat back up. This is quite a hard task when there are only two light weight girls. So we keep going at it and finally, the boat comes back up! So Emily and I swam around the back, trying to get back into the boat, just to have it tip over again!!!! This time it turtled, which means it was all the way tipped over.