Bellum wash and inspection. New standing rigging, raced SeaScanII and initial sail on FUGU

On Tuesday at 12:30, Bellum was hauled out for bottom washing and inspection.  

Shipwright was invited to look at her, but never responded.  

I moved some sails and sewing stuff to the Redline locker to make space for my stuff.  

Picked up Explorer Charts from Mark O.

Bellum's bottom was relatively clean, considering she had been in the water for 440 days since May 4th

I also used Toilet Bowl cleaner to clean the ICW Mastashe.  Worked very well.  Probably removed some of the wax.

The anode was changed to Magnesium.

I slept aboard Zig-Zag and relaunched on Wednesday morning.

There was a heatwave in Montreal.  On Wednesday afternoon, I spent time at the pool and then had a burger and Oatmeal stout with Sylvie and grand grandkids at the pool.

Afterwards, I installed the new standing rigging on the mast and went for a drink with Sylvie, which was cut short due to an infestation of mosquitoes.

Helped Fugu raise her mast afterwards

Thursday, I worked on the rigging turnbuckles on the deck.  I was not happy with the turnbuckles and ordered 4 new ones from EB Spar.  I would like to install the mast on Thursday or Friday, so I drove to Hudson to pick up the turnbuckles.

But Shipwright was not ready to install the bow plate until Monday.  They had not replied to my previous emails and one phone message.  The drive back was very wet, and if I had known the bow plate wouldn't be installed on Monday, I would have preferred to ride to Hudson on the weekend by bicycle.

I was test-fitting the new turnbuckles when Chris came by and told me that I should install the turnbuckles unthreaded so that both sides would be equal when I install the mast.  I was fumbling with the locking ring on the toggle, and he said I needed to flip the ring to the other side so the locking side of the ring could go through the hole.  Captain Obvious is so obnoxious when he states the obvious.  I wished him a happy anniversary, but he hadn't realized it was his wedding anniversary!  I later saw Erika at the clubhouse alone.  I reminded Chris that she was not allowed in the clubhouse alone.  He said she was 19, thinking that she was at the bar.  I had to remind him that, as an adult, she was no longer considered a family member of the club.  ZING!

I later had drinks with Rick and Lise as they had dinner.

Friday, I had to grind one of the toggles to fit the starboard chain plate.  

I biked out to Leslie ot have an "urgent" meeting about NB.

Later, I raced on Seacan II with Sven, Michel and two others.  We came in third.  The boat rigging worked very well.

Saturday was a major cleaning and reorganizing day for BELLUM and the locker.  I fixed the holding tank monitor alarm system.

I was going to go home and help Jason raise her jib.  He had been reinstalling the boom, sails, and bimini after changing the rigging to Dyneema.  Jason decided to take Fugu for her first run.  Mike and I weren't doing anything, so we took her out and tacked and jibed her in 10 knots of wind, and all checked out.

I drove home for my second BBQ on the balcony.

Fugu Mast

EB Spar

Raft Up

On Friday, Heather cancelled the FFR so I took off with the dinghy to the Sandbar for tomorrow's Cruisers' Raft UP.  I was challenging for BELLUM since she did not have a bow plate.

The sailboats, consisting of Zig Zag, Tara II and Dissidence, arrived. Fugu did not.  The cruisers rafted up separately.

My New floatie

Bring Beneteau from Valleyfield to Pointe Claire YC

Ian had just bought a Beneteau and needed help to bringing her back to PCYC.  Eventually, she is going to QYC in Quebec City.

I slept aboard BELLUM and got up early to meet Ian at PCYC, where his father drove us to Valleyfield.

There were no navigation instruments or a depth gauge, and when I took the helm, I hit a rock.  I was outside the channel.

We took the zig-zag channel since Ian was concerned about the depth at the windmill point channel.  

The day was hot.  Upon arrival, I went to Addison's and the boathouse to get new screws for my compass housing.

Single Handed Race on Shark 2

I booked Shark 2 and took off with the Torqeedo, but it failed before reaching the GUT.

The RC waited for the two sharks before starting.

The sharks, consisting of Sharks 1 and 2, were scratch boats, meaning they started the race from a 'scratch' or 'zero' position.  We did okay,  and I managed to keep up with Shark 1 throughout the race.

St Jean to PCYC

I took Bellum without her Mast to PCYC with the plan to see the St. Jean Baptist fireworks.

Walked through Alexandre-Bourgeau Park, which was rather lame.... I came back to the PCYC club, had a beer with Lorezo and then had supper with Bruce and Ron.

Bill came by to invite us to his boat to see the fireworks.  I took him up on it, and we rafted up to Genesis and Lorenzo for the fireworks.

Return to the Pointe Claire Club and stay overnight there at the dock.

The next morning, I lingered over a free PCYC coffee and eventually returned to the Royal, where I worked to tidy up Bellum some more.

FFR with Heather and Francois on TARA ii

Before going to the club, I went to the locker room and changed my winter tires for summer tires.  Took only 20 minutes for the Honda

With the BELLUM mast down, I participated in an FFR fun race with Heather and Francois on Tara II.

Lots of wind, No. 1 jib.  Heather helmed

Supper at the club and cocktails on Zig Zag and breakfast on BELLUM, followed by Yoga.

Completed a significant amount of work, including cleaning and decluttering, on Bellum.  Helped Norm move the dinghy to the foredeck to fix his floor    

Returned to Montreal

I returned to Dorval at 1 PM with Jessica and Jeromy as the crew for the Seaway locks.

JPC was hogging the sheer leg, so I was not able to use Jessica and Jeromy to remove the mast from BELLUM

I stayed around to tidy up and move things to the locker and then returned the BMW.  It was a long bus ride.  The buses were on strike but were running for the F1 weekend.

Sunday, Jason and I removed the mast, and I did some major tidy up, putting frame into the car to bring back to the locke.r

Monday, Will and Evett were available to inspect and prepare quotes for boat and mast servicing.  I rode my bike 55 miles.

Sooo busy