Cancelled GNS Tuesday

At 2:30PM, I cancelled our Tuesday race.  Supposed to rain at 7-8 PM and be fairly windy.  I took a walk in NDG, and it was much windier on Monkland than in the penthouse.

NIght at Grand Anse

After a day at the club washing the dinghy and reinstalling the dock wheel, the winds declined; I departed the harbour at 7PM and sailed on one tack to Grand Anse, arriving at 9 PM.

360 Photo

Zero carbon anchor and sautéed sausages with onions.  I forgot I had peppers and tomatoes.  

The next morning I lingered till 2PM and sailed into the main lake in a run. Before the gut, I turned and beat it to the southwest and northwest and decided to return to the harbour, arriving at 3:30.

Chris showed up with a wheel puller, and we pulled off the wheel from the binnacle.  It has seized since our Bahamas trip.  It came out easily with the puller.

I disassembled and washed out the Raymarine wheel drive.  It seemed to work reasonably well, with the broken screw holes discovered in January 2025 in the Bahamas.

Chris and I went to check out Tara's water, and we put up Chris' head sail.

I bugtek the boat, dinghy and dock and biked home.

Sunday Maud Cup - NOT

Sunday morning, I got up early and biked to the club, rushed to the boat, got her ready, and checked the club website to make sure the race was not cancelled.

I departed the harbour at 9 AM with a reefed main, but she was hard to control so I opened a reef jib, and it was still hard to control.  I checked my email and found the race had been cancelled at 8:49.  I turned back and returned to the harbour in shame.

I spent the day at the club, cleaning the dinghy with Tocade's pressure washer and reinstalling the medium dock wheel.

At 7, the winds declined, and I went out again.  See next log entry.

Sailing with Rachel, Daina and Barry followed by race on

I brought the car home to empty it at the locker, picked up Rachel, Daina, and Barry, and we set sail at the club, departing at noon. Nice sail; tacked to the gut and sailed to 1:15, anchored, had lunch and sailed again to 4-ish. 

I decided to stay at the club and offered Rachel the car to bring everyone home, but the logistics weren't working out, so they took the BMW, and I stayed for the FFR and found a place on Winged Hussar with Joe and Brian..

Brian

Fugu

Boat cleaning

I picked up some industrial Q-tips, which were great for cleaning the teak edges and louvres on the teak doors.

I also got these drill brushes from Temu, which were great for cleaning the non-skid

Windy Thursday Race

Scarlett, Maud, John and Natalie joined us for Series 3, Race 2 in windy conditions.

Tuesday Race Cancelled

 At 2, I decided to cancel the race.  Tornado warnings, etc.

AT 17h32, the Racing Organizer cancelled.  Scarlett went out with her crew on the J.

Rachel sailing and then single handed to sandbars

After morning yoga, Rachel came, and we set sail with both the main and the jib, since the main had not been put away the night before.

The winds were great.  We sailed to the gut and had to do one tack at the red, then a second tack to get through the gut, and it was easy sailing through the TRY regatta.  We had lunch while sailing, and then the winds died and became very fluky.  It was difficult to follow the fluky winds.  It kept changing directions.

We sailed by the Pleasurecraft Raft Up and then sailed on.

It turns out that I had emptied the water tanks while washing the Friday BBQ dishes.  There lots of dishes.

At 5, I dropped Rachel off at PCYC to take the 211 back into town. The service dock was quite busy, and I had to tie up near the mast crane.  A safety officer from the TRY regatta helped me dock as I had problems getting close to the dock. Rachel threw the midship line to him, and we did a fairly elegant docking.  The safety officer was wearing goggles and a big hat.  It turned out to be Jerome!  

I walked Rachel to the 211 bus, and I returned to the club and tried to get permission to stay a while or the night.  Nobody could give me permission, so I hung around for an hour and then took off.  I headed towards the west, but winds were too light, and I limped to the sandbars, passing Dissidence.

Saturday fluky winds

The next day, Sunday, was a lazy day.  Fugu, Dissidence, and Zig-Zag were rafted up nearby.  They had not invited me, so I did not ask to raft up.  I sailed by and shot some photos.

I sailed back to the club and cleaned up the bugs from the night at the sandbars.

Made a BBQ from leftovers from Friday and biked back home in the evening.

Sunday winds - very light

FFR Jesica and BBQ

Jessica, Romain, John and Eugenie came to sail in the Friday Fun Race.  

Romain has never been on a sailboat. Eugenie is taking a sailing course, and she is a pretty amazing kid.

We had great winds. John helmed most of the race.  A little rusty, but he has only been sailing for a year.

After the race, we anchored without the engine near the pin and had a BBQ and then hauled anchor without the motor and sailed back through the channel and then started the motor as it was 10:30PM

Corrected time, we came in 17th out of 18

Thurday GNS cancelled

Chris drove me to the club.  We thought it might clear up for the race, but it did not and at 3PM, it did not look good, so I cancelled, and at 6 PM, the Race Organizer had cancelled the evening race.  Chris drove me back home.

Heather and Jennifer

Heather had asked me to take her out on BELLUM.  Her husband Nick was always too busy to take their boat out. She brought her friend Jennifer along. 

We departed at 10 and returned about 3.  Had a great time.

Sunday solitude, Monday solitude, Tuesday Shark

On Sunday morning, I had coffee with Anne, then biked to the club with the SUP board trailer, hoping to raft up with JT and company.  

I did my photographic duties at the club Open House, 

I discovered the house batteries were not charging.  I troubleshot and discovered the 12VDC always-on busbar had corroded and overheated, killing the battery and starting to thaw the fridge.  I tightened the screws, found that a fuse holder had overheated, and replaced it.  Finally, at 5PM, I took off, sailing to the GUT, passing ZIG-ZAG and tacking through Lake St Louis, checking in to FUGU at the sandbars.  I continued towards Dowkers and anchored there at 7.  

I spent the night and a good part of Monday there.  At 4 p.m., I set sail slowly through the lake, anchoring at the Sandbars.  

The next day, I sailed back to the club.  I found the 40 Amp fuse for the DC-DC charger had blown, and I changed the fuse at the club. More tidy up of the locker, and at 4PM, I took Shark 1 with John to make him comfortable with her.  He was quite comfortable helming and heave-to.  We returned to the harbour and John bought me supper. at the club.

Met Bob at the yard and he was cleaning his locker and gave me a bunch of boat stuff that he no longer needed.

Stitch with Christine

Saturday morning, I got the new boat inspection sticker from the Coast Guard

I set up a let's-go-sailing group on Stitch, and only Christine registered.  We departed at 1PM and I tacked up the channel through the gut to Grand Anse and ran back. Before the gut, we decided to return to the club at 4, and we made it back to the club at about 5

It was a lot of fun.  Great winds.  Andre went out an hour earlier and decided it was too rough.  Glad we did.  Had a great time -  just the two of us.

I lingered around and then biked home.  Difficult to decide whether to take the bike or the car.  Took the Nikishi bike home.  I had a coffee date with Anne at Cafe Mercati on Sunday.