Racing NOT, Viewing the Perseid meteor shower on the lake, anchoring overnight.

I biked to the club on Tuesday with many things to do.  First complete issues with Shipwright and EB Spar.

I warned Scarlett that there was not much wind, and she could cancel. She did not cancel.

I motored to PCYC to pick her up, and we waited for the RC to determine if we would race or not.  The race was eventually cancelled.  We had supper.  Scarlett departed, and John M came to sit with me to talk about his career. 

I departed PCYC to raft up with FUGU to view the Perseid meteor showers. Mike, Karla, Jason and Jenn were there.

I've done this on the water several times and never saw any.  They saw 21, and I saw 1.  

Also saw an interesting phenomenon (UFO) behind the clouds.  It was not flying a direct path as you would have expected from an aircraft.

Fugu departed about 12:30, and I anchored to spend the night.

Next morning, I hauled anchor at 7 and motored back to the club and got a pump out.  There was a new hose set up that was fantastic. Pump out, flush, and pump out with just two valves, no need to switch hoses - very nice.  Sent a message to David to compliment him on it.

Went back ot my dock and washed the boat during the rainstorm.  Had to reinstall one corner of the solar panel where the line holding it down broke in the high winds.

I went to the clubhouse and updated the Wi-Fi bridge repeater for BELLUM and installed it on BELLUM.

Was unable to activate the Globe water detector and door sensor.Took it home to work on it.

After the rain, I biked home.

Carole, Suzanne and Laurie

 A lovely day of sailing, swimming and night sailing with some lovely ladies.

Sailing with Anna

Andreanna did not respond to my messages. Apparently, she was sick.

Anna was very complicated.  Scheduling issues and then changes. Tried ot schedule her for Sunday, but it was too hot for her.

So it was just Anna and me.  We motored to the Gut and sailed to Baie d'Urfie, and sailed back as I prepared for the White Gala at 4PM.

Voilavie was at the gut, motoring out as we returned.

White Gala

 

A fun evening in white

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Friday night at Grand Anse

I biked to the club on Friday.

Worked around the club, went for a swim.  Fugu and Dissidence were thinking of doing the Sandbars, as there was no wind.  

It was sweltering hot.  About 4, I took a dip in the pool.  Met at the FFR meeting, and the winds were supposed to pick up.  I departed about 5:30, sailing in a south wind-beam reach.  Passed Dissidenc,e who was returning.  Then I passed Fugu; she, too, was returning, but as the winds picked up, she came out for another circuit.  I made to RC and reported not racing as winds picked up I headed towards Dowkers. Winds picked up more from the south and were forecast to be gusty overnight.  It wasn't

Smoky sunset, fair Sturgent moon.  

Got up at 7 and motored back to the club for Yoga and sailing with Anna and Andreanna. Did some WOT.

Voilavie

I got up early to fix Therapy's No 2 head sail and Voilavie's sail cover.

I was supposed to fix Karyne's sail cover, but she convinced me to go sailing.  Nice sail, uneventful.  

Later I sewed her main sail cover and made some replacement boat blanket protection for the furler base and pulpuit.  And a new BBQ cover for the Magma Kettle.

Then went to Jason's to make new handrails for the BELLUM deck.  They look great.  5 1/2 hours

Dropped them off at the club and gave V a lift home.

Windmill Point Race with Sylvie and Scarlett

Winds were stronger than expected.  

I decided to change the head sail from 155 to 135.  A good thing.  Winds were supposed to be under 11, but were over 15.

We did a quick sail change with Hugh and set off to the channel, where we raised the 135.  

We tried a reef of the main, but we decided that it was hindering us, so we shook out the reef.  The new boom rebuild made the reefing much smoother.

We tacked around and were too far to hear the start, but the RC gave us our starting time.

We had a good start.  16 nm starting about 11AM, finishing at 3PM.  

Fourth place

Sylvie left for her supper, leaving her HH foul-weather gear behind.  Scalett and I had a beer, and she departed.  

On Sunday, I thought Carole was going to come sailing, but I had mistaken her meaning to be the following Sunday.  I decided it was a good day to bike to St. Eustache, and I did it.