At Gotland Charter, we have recently had two big events. One was a two day regatta and the other was a regatta and team building activities day.The two day regatta was a team building experience for a company that came from Italy. We used four boats for this regatta with about five or six people on each boat. The first day was used as a practice day. On this day all of the participants learned the ropes of the boat and practiced what they would be doing in competition the following day. On the second day the teams stayed the same, for the most part, and we held two races. The boats were paired up together, so the times and places for each boat were recorded at the end of each race. The teams with the least combined score won the competition. This was not only a learning and building activity for the company, but it was also a fun day on the water getting to know a little more about each other.
The second event we held was a much larger event where we had to split the company up into two large groups. We traded the activities with each group, so everybody got an equal chance to do everything. One of the activities held was a ten boat regatta where the teams worked together to win the race, while building the unity of their company. While one group was doing the regatta out on the sea, the other group stayed on the docks and particpated in two different workshops. The first workshop was a drum workshop, where the participants learned how to play a different type of drum. They worked together to get the correct drumming patterns and sounds. While some participants were drumming, the others were working together to build a table from scraps of wood, tape, string, cardboard, and more. During the table building workshop, the participants had to work together to make a table out of various materials, and use their heads to think of the best way to make this table as sturdy as possible.
