The boat that Ian Built

The amazing success story of the Laser, a thirteen-foot sailboat built by Ian Bruce of Pointe-Claire, Québec, and of Performance Sailcraft, the company he formed to produce and market it. Simply designed, durably built of fibreglass, it is a pleasure craft that has brought summer sailing within everyone's reach on coastal and inland waters around the world.

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Haul Out 2021

 

Season Summary

• 77 trips\
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• 26 single-handed trips
• 24 races
• 25 no logs
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• 1082 mM
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• 105 Liters
• 138 Hours

Last Outing - Sunset with just the poles

In the morning was a dressed rehearsal with Diane at PDA.  Then we had lunch on St Catherine where my favourite Indian restaurant Chennai Express was closed so we had Chinese noodles.  

I was thinking of taking down the sails as the weekend was supposed to be a washout.  Diane was willing to come out to help me so we went to the Penthouse to pick up the car and drove to the club.  

I helped Redline dock and I had to decide if I wanted to take down the sails or go for a sunset sail and then take down the sails.  We took down the sails and about 4, we motored out to the gut, turn off the motor and drifted WEST with a 15-knot wind from the East.  We did as much as 1.9 knots SOG. With the wind chill, it was cold.

We waited for the sunset drifting towards the church.  About 5:20 we motored back to the club arriving at 6:10 and rapidly packed up and headed to my Meet up at le Canal, dropping Diane at Fairview.  

After supper, I went to the club to try to take the trailer home but the wiring was not working.  Took Veronica home

Sailing with just the poles

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Spontaneous outing / sunset

After working on the Up Paper proposal, I went for a bike ride and ended up at the club and sailing...  I would have anchored overnight but the forecast was for 4 degrees.  It was actually 1 at 8AM.

photos to come

The 420's were out.

Forecast to be 4 overnight

In reality it was 1

Final Frostbite - avec Sylvie Maud Claire

Wow, we did all 12 races!  DNF one race!  

In the first race, we did poorly.  Second race we beat Slow Dancer, the Third race wind dies at the start.  We could not get to the start line for 15 minutes.  The course was shortened to one sausage and we made it back in as last.  But we did not abandon.  Two races were dropped.

The weather was forecast to be 3 C at 9am but it turned out to be 6 and got quite warm.  I did bike to the club in the morning.

After the race, I helped Redline and Flow Control put away their sails, pump out, refuelling and we took a dinghy ride on Redline's dinghy around the range and Dorval Island to discharge my Torqeedo battery.

Bellum is still rigged in the hope of more sailing for 2021.  Because I can.

It was balmy ... for October

The third start was a pain.  15 minutes to cross the line.

We win for particaption!

Wine tasting - an evening with Bill Zacharkiw

Calendar mix-up.  I got a message from Jason asking if I was coming.  I accidentally scheduled this for Saturday.  Made it to the club in 19 minutes from the penthouse to the dining room.

A fine time with fellow gourmand sailors - Helen, Pierre, Bridgitt, Jason, Mike, Kelly and Ed.

Short run for a gorgeous sunset

It was cold in the morning after I turned off the two heaters earlier in the morning.

I got up about 7 ish but was not out of bed until 9.  

I reassembled the trailer, helped Northern Sun investigate his charging issues, tidied up the locker (a little), examined some Yanmar parts left behind by Maurice, tried to take the dingy out to discharge the Torqeedo.  It was a little wet but Norm came aboard and the boat sunk.  Came back to dock immediately.

I took Bellum out to see the sunset and full Hunter moon.  I motored out about 1/2 mile and drifted back to the club.  Sunset was great, it was cloudy on the east so there was no moon to be seen.  I motored back to the club and biked back home.

First sail with Diane

Diane had never been on a sailboat so we planned to meet at 3:30 PM.  While biking to the club I picked up some salmon steaks at Lachine IGA and came on lakeshore blvd and saw strong west winds with serious white caps.  I wanted to cancel but decided to head to the club anyways.  

Winds were lighter at the club but apparently, it was over 20 knots earlier.  

Diane showed up at 3:30 and I decided it was fine to go as the winds declined and were forecast to decline further.  We had 15 knots of winds from the west and we had the 155 on.  We motored to the but and the 155 was a little difficult to handle. I probably should have used a partial genoa.  We sailed to Baie-D'Urfé and ran back as the winds were slowly declining.  By the time we got to the gut, we were doing 3 knots decline to 1 knot near the club.  

Perfect docking and we BBQ the salmon with roasted peppers and potatoes and onions in foil.  Diane went home and I slept aboard with two heaters which kept the boat very toasty.  Never used these two heaters before ... I guess the heaters will become the standard equipment now.

Love my new phone - cinematic 

Frostbite Race 7 8 9

 Sylvie was under the weather and it was just Jimmy, Maud and I

The weather was nice enough. The winds were light and very fluky.  In fact, RC cancelled the second race shortly after the start. 

Bellum still had the 155 but we had lots of problems keeping up with the shifting winds.

We were so behind in the first race, we abandoned so that everyone did not have to wait for us.  But the shark from BYC insisted on racing despite being so far behind.

We were last for the second and third races but at least we did not DNS.  "DNF is better than DNS"

An awesome upcoming week again, but...

 Last week was unusually warm as is the upcoming week.

But no winds on Thursday or Friday.  

And lots of rain Saturday

Single handed anchored outside the club - Thanksgiving

The forecast was wrong

After sailing with Rachel, I went out again. 

I drifted in the channel in very light winds. There were supposed to be winds in the evening but they were wrong, very wrong.

I passed Fugu and Zig Zag as they were returning to the club.

The sunset was fabulous.  I sailed deep into the bay beside the club.  

Zig-Zag took some nice pictures of us sailing into the sunset and at the bay beside the club.

Sailing into sunset

Fugu

Dorval Island

Bellum sailing into the sunset - photo by Mike

At anchor - photo by Mike

 

The next day was windless so I went for a nice bike ride to Access and Addisons