Meet up with James and Ellie

On Monday morning, they were forecasting 31 mm of rain.  By Monday afternoon, that went down to 80% of about 5 mm of rain.  I figured it would start lightly at 2 and get stronger.  I planned to be back by 3 or eearlier if we saw rain clouds.

Several people cancelled.

James did not have Internet at home I had had to stay in contact with him by phone as to if we go or not.  Ellie showed up a little later.

Jame had never been on a boat.  He had told me that he was a pilot, but later said that he never did it because his wife got pregnant. Some other strange stories, but he was really an odd-ball and did not enjoy the trip and complained a lot.

The winds were excellent and there were many signs of the sun giving us a very warm day.

We put up the sails as we left the harbour about 10:20.  We had a tight tack to get through the Gut, sailed to Dowker back about 3 times.  No signs of rain, got back about 2:30.

Leeway with Michael and Scott was coming out of the club as we were coming in.  

James left without helping to tie up the boat.  No thank you.  Ellie and I tied up the boat.

Peter was supposed to be having a coffee with Angela at the club at 3PM, but he did not show up.

Rain started at 4

I did an oil change and washed the boat and got to the clubhouse for a beer just as the rain came in.


Overall a nice day.  I deserved a medal.

The warmest September on record: Environment Canada

Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips says the average temperature in the city this month was 18.8 degrees — well above the seasonal norm of 15.5 degrees.
The hottest day of the summer was on September 7th when the temperature hit 31.8 degrees.
In addition, Phillips says there were only seven days of rain this past month.
Phillips says even with a forecast high of only 13 degrees today, September will still end up being the warmest September since the weather office began keeping records at Trudeau airport in 1941. The record high average for September in Montreal was the 18.6 degrees recorded in 1961.
And the country's top weather forecaster has even more good news — he says there will be an Indian summer in October, and that this coming winter will be warmer than the last two.