Sunday, July 30, 2017

Sunday and Monday sailing

After Jimmy and Tilda left, we got up the next day and had breakfast of sausage and eggs.

We set sail as we left the club.  Nice day.  We did several rounds of the lake and about 5, we anchored at Grand Anse.

We had chicken and wine and cauliflower on the BBQ.  The aluminium foil we had turned funny and we had thrown it out.

Nice nite with a gift from James.

Squall on Lake St. Louis
The next day we stayed anchored.  We took an afternoon nap and then noticed that the boat was rotating around the anchor.

Daniele looked out the hatch and we had rotated 180 degrees and there were ominous clouds ahead.

We got up and evaluated the situation.  We turned on the VHF and there was a call for a boat near the RSTLYC entrance.  Then there was a mayday relay for a platoon boat near Dorval Island.

Apparently, there was a squall on the lake.

Missed it by that much


The sky was much better where we were.


Fine in Ile Perrot














Squall in Pointe Claire











After the weather cleared up, we set sail for some place closer.  We ended up motoring to the sandbars and anchoring there.

Supper was pork chops that had been frozen aboard two weeks earlier.  Not bad.  Awesome Sunset



Tuesday morning, we motored back to the club, washed down the deck and headed back to work at 11AM.


Saturday, July 29, 2017

Fun day with Tilda, Jimmy and Lisange

I got up early to get some groceries.

Jimmy and Tilda came to the club and waited for us at the lawn, wondering if we were going to take one boat or two.

We all went out on Bellum.  Winds were very light.  We motored to the gut and sailed around to Beaconsfield and then back when the wind died. We snacked on the way back.

Then we anchored at the sandbars and had a lazy day with Zig Zag and Fugu and their swan, flamingo and dinosaur.

We sailed to the gut and then motored in the dark through the channel.  Not as easy as one would think.






Friday, July 28, 2017

Friday Fun Race Nigel and Lilian

A great race for Bellum with Lilian on the helm and Nigel coaching

Although we were second to last, our time was very good.  Just the funny handicaps hurt us.




Thursday, July 27, 2017

Quck sail with Daniele


I got up and tried to work at the club.  I tidy up the car and locker a bit.

I tried to help Rob fix a repeater to help Hynes wifi.

Daniele decided to come sailing before picking up MF and Alain from London.

We emptied the sail locker and I tightened the shaft packing and throttle cable friction. There was over 6 liters of water in the bilge in two hours of motoring.

After tightening the packing I took some thermal pictures of the shaft.  No warm spots

We sailed on just the jib to Baie d'urfie and back to the club.  About half way between the gut and the club it started to drizzle and we motored back to the dock.

Daniele and I rinsed down the boat and she went to the airport and I drove to the office to write this blog.




nice easy sail with just the jib




















Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Wednesday race on Naomi


Jimmy had not taken his boat out this year.

We met at the club at 2, installed the BBQ and left.  We sailed to Baie'd Urfie and back.  We saw RC about 5 and sailed around until the race started.  It turned out we were late but then we realized that there were 3 starts.  We did a port start with Talisman and Tara II.going starboard.

It seemed that we were doing very well but eventually we could not keep our lead and came in third.

Supper at the club and I slept over, since my apartment was flooded.


Sunday, July 23, 2017

Briditte and Max

We got up at Alan Point and motored back to the club for showers and breakfast.

Daniele did the groceries.

Bridgitte and Max arrived about 11:30.  We reviewed safety and motored out to the gut and put up the sails.  Winds were light and time was limited since I had an AQVA meeting at 5PM.

We sailed, Max helmed for about an hour before the winds died.  We sailed to the sand bars and swam and had snacks of vegies, pate and cheese.

Chaos anchored near by.  David was at the meeting with me at 5.  So when Chaos leaves, we would probably leave.  He left about 4.

We left about 4:15.  Winds picked up.  We docked and I left for the meeting as Audrey and Jimmy came in to dock.

Later I heard Briditt was a little sea sick.


Saturday, July 22, 2017

Duggan CUP NOT

We slept in.  We did not know anybody went to the race.

I met Stephan at the lawn and he had gone out to Dowkers to make sure nobody was there.

We had breakfast aboard and then we sailed to Baie d'urfie and back to anchor outside Alan Hill.

The winds were light so we tried out the spinnaker on a broad / beam reach.  Not bad.


We had the hamburgers and went to bed.


Friday, July 21, 2017

Friday raft up without raft up

Jimmy and Daniele and I sailed the Friday pursuit race.

Jimmy helmed.  Daniele suggested going to the start line and running out for 1/2 the time out and then tack and come in.

We headed out and came in a a different angle and came in too early and we veered of.  Then we tacked and messed that up.  We tacked again and stalled in irons.  We tried to get out of iron and we accidentally tacked.  After a couple of minutes we drifted through the start line and tacked heading for RC.  I told Jimmy that we were over and duck behind the RC.  I told RC that we crossed the line and they agreed we were OVER.

We headed to SL 43 but it turned out the be SL 42.  We went towards SL43 and came back to see if it was not SL 43.  We passed Chaos and determined that it was not SL 43.  We followed Chaos through the course.  Daniele and I were fight about focusing on the courese during the race.  That did not help.

When we finished, nobody was rafting so we went back to the dock.  Jimmy did not stay for supper aboard.  Daniele and I discussed the evening and skipped the hamburgers she had planned.


Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Yet another rained out Wednesday race sans wind avec Mary and Jimmy,

Daniele and I got to the club early to try out the new bow roller.  It did not fit.

I exchanged stuff with Redline before their European vacation.

Mary planned to come out with us, after several years of invitations.  I met Jimmy on the lawn and invited him to come out and race.  It was Jimmy's first time on the lake.  It is July 19th!

We motored out to the starting area and drifted in light winds of approximately 4 knots.  We drifted at 1.2 knots.

Then we hear thunder and motored back to the club.

Jimmy and Mary did not stay aboard for supper.  We BBQ the Moishes flattened chicken.  It was pretty good.

Slept aboard and waited until 10'ish for Vince to get back to the shop so we could have adjustments made to the bow roller.  I cleaned out the locker and installed a dock roller on the dock.

On the way home, Benoit was feeling bad and Daniele took the Outback to bring Benoit to a clinic.


Saturday, July 15, 2017

Single handed to Grand Anse with Redline

Redline took off

I followed her on sails from the club channel

Nice sail close hauled to Grand Anse.  circled around and then tied up to Redline.  They had fish and I had two hot dogs.

Later we separated and I anchored about 150 feet away.  Next morning I did and zero carbon departure back to the club in a run.

We stay ahead of a small rain cell





Rick and Laura helped me dock.

Rode my bike back to the office and wrote these blogs.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Friday race with Nigel and Lilian

The weather was iffy but it was decided we would race this Friday.

Lilian had the helm.  We towed a shark out and as we cut her off, the race had started.  There were no flags and the radio was low and RC was making count downs for each minute and we thought it was the countdown to the starts.

Lilian had to do 3 false starts.

Finally, we came in fourth, but it was a very good race for us especially our lousy start.


Saturday, July 8, 2017

Single handed race

The annual single handed race.

Winds were very light, sky was dark.  Skipper Meeting was at 9:30.  I got out of bed at 9:45.  I did not want to race, but I bugged Luc for a chart and time as he was heading to his shark.

I tried to get the 150 but was too lazy to install it, especially since Daniele and I were going to go sailing afterwards.

The course was 10.07 knots.  Start time was 13:35.  I had a pretty good start and winds were in my favour at the start.  I caught up to a few boats.

JP had the 150.  I was jealous.  Jason had a horrible start, behind the fleet.

I make some mistakes in navigation that let Sylvie and JP pass me.

At AD28, the winds were very quarky and I had to avoid Sylvie because she we in trouble.  I did not protest.  Then I almost had to start my engine to avoid nosing the bouy.  In the meantime, Jason caught up.

Then a small squall came up.  Jason furled, Sylvie partially dropped her main.  I furled my jib and kept an eye on Sylvie.  Jason unfurled, so I unfurled.  It was a two man race.  Patrick finished and came back out to watch over Sylvie.

It was a race between Fugu and Bellum.  Fugu tried to push me on the other side of RC,but I refused and passed 3 seconds ahead of Fugu.

The teams all had some Samual Adams at the clubhouse.










Full moon at Dowkers - vacation.

After the single handed race, Daniele came and met me after driving MF and Al to Dorval.

We took off sans groceries, some cheese, chips, pasta, canned clams and had a feast.  The full moon was not so great due to cloud cover.

Apparently, this was our one week vacation.  I called to make appropriate changes to

We went out sailing on Sunday and ended up at Grand Anse.  It was nice there.  So nice we spend three days there.  It rained Tuesday and we set up the cockpit tent.

















They on Wednesday morning there was a strong wind and we motored back to the club.  We had supper at St Hubert and then got the anchor plates form Polvige and then got the groceries for 5 days.

I tried the anchor bow roller plates with some help from Norm.  I bought the plates back to Polvige and came back to the club.  Daniele was not keen on going out, but I convinced her to follow the races and maybe do a run through the start line.  We did not.  The winds were from the North and variable.

We anchored at Dowkers South for Wednesday night.  The winds were from the East and we were open to all the waves across the lake.  We sailed back to the club. We spend the Thursday overnight there.  Daniele did not want to go out again so I sent her home.


















Friday, July 7, 2017

Friday Fun race not completed

Winds were light, the risk of a thunderstorm.

I invited Norm who had family obligations, Daniele was visiting parents, Jimmy was working late, Catherine was busy, Connie did not answer, Alec had Sarah looking to crew.

Might not have gone out without Sarah.  Sarah just finished Adult Sailing.

We towed JP out at high speed. We were barely ready when the 5-minute sequence started. We got out sails up and motored to the start line.  At 40 seconds, we shut off the engine and sailed through the start line on port and then tacked to starboard, approaching Fugu who was on port.  We veered off without protest.

Tacked after Blue Nuit.  then the race was cancelled due to lack of winds.  Maybe 10 minutes into the race.

Towed JP back slowly.

Had some drinks at the bar with Sarah, Alec and Odessa.

Had a night cap on Goucho and came back to write this blog aboard Bellum


Garbage on Sunday morning

 Disgusting garbage on Sunday morning