GNS Fall R2

Norm went to Champlain to help Chris demast.

Audrey says she had too much crew.  She offered me crew. Then she showed up very late and her crew was waiting for her.  Some of her crew wanted to race.

I took Maud, Sola and Mona.

We got to start line very late, we raced and abandoned the race.

Maud wanted to go back home to do groceries.

We did not do the second race.

Audrey did not race at all.

I stayed around to tidy up and did some labeling of the PI wiring.

A slow day of ...

Sailing with Jeff

After talking about it since spring, I finally got to take Jeff out sailing.

A nice day out. Light winds in the beginning and white caps when we finally came in.

Adam was invited too, but he could not make it.

Note: Speed transponder was stuck.

Thursday with Earendil 1 -

Norm and I got to the club at 5 to sail Earendil with Bob.  Nathalie had to cancel - meetings

Norm took the helm.

Very exciting start = we got to the start line as the race was about to start.  We tacked to starboard between several boats.  Chaos came very close to us.  It was crowded and Earendil  stalled the headsail in a big traffic jam.  Denise avoided us and we fouled Slow Dancer.  We did our 360.

The rest was not so exciting.  Results were 8 out of 11



Came back to the club and had supper with Maud and Audrey who were alone on the Laser 28.

I slept aboard.

Friday Single handed

Thursday night, I stayed aboard to rest and do some boat work

Friday morning, I cleaned the deck, improved the pick up line pole, tied down loose wires in locker lighting, cleaned dinghy and inflatable kayak put the kayak away for the season

Then in the afternoon, I went for a sail

Yes, there is a main sail under the cover

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Confused path

Dorian giving us east winds

Windmill Point Shield race with Chris and Frank

Frank from PCYC wanted to race with us.  I invited Chris. 

Chris was supposed to pick up me up at Reno Depo.  He did but had an emergency with Erika's wheel chair and we had to drive to WHS to bring her home and then rush to the club. 

We motored out fast and made the race with time to spare. 

Came in dead last.

By the time we got back to the clubhouse, the other crews had finished supper and left the club.

Single handed afternoon

I slept aboard and got up early for a pump-out, gaz up and clean the windex of the bothersome spider's web.  All single handed.

There was a Sabre and two Chris-Craft cruisers at the fuel dock  Nice boats.  We think they were part of the wedding Saturday night.

I lounged around, did not find any crew and took off at 1 for some single handed sailing in 12 to 18 knots of west winds.  Gaucho and Chaos were out there.  Did several circuits checking out the SLVRA marks and played with new Axiom software.

I decided not to anchor out since the temperature was dropping to 12 C.

Came back about 5.  Dropped in on Redline and had T-bones (steaks).

Later I biked out to check the scene at Kelly's Orchard and come back to sleep aboard.  Next morning, I took off for Museum Day and Diana's Porch Fest.

Last FFR with Shelley, Karen, Peter and Carole

T;s the last Friday Fun Race of the season.

Shelley showed up then Karen and Peter was walking to the dock with his wife.  I invited her to join us.  She accepted.

There were only four boats Airway, Slow Dancer II and us and Globy arrived late - one start.  One long triangle.  Marks were far and a little hard to find.  Carole surprised me in that she had raced in a past life.

We did well, but came in a second.  We had several sailing handling issues with an inexperienced crew - especially with releasing and removing the winch handle that caused us to move from first to last at the windward mark.

Nice evening.  Nice sail back with drinks and chips.