FFR with Heather and Francois on TARA ii

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

Lots of wind, No. 1 jib.  Heather helmed

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

Did a lot of work, cleaning and decluttering on BELLUM.  Helped Norm move dinghy to foredeck to fix his floor    

Returned to Montreal

I got back to Dorval at 1PM with Jessica and Jeromy as 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 things up and move stuff to the locker and then took the BMW back.  It was a long bus ride.  The buses were on strike but were running for 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 locker

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

Sooo busy

Departure on a great adventure

Brian and I departed the Royal on a great adventure 

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Systems check with Chiheb and Brian

Norm bought me an 8 HP Johnson/ 

Saturday Brian came up from Vermont.  Chieb came helped prepare BELLUM for her big adventure.

Set up new chocks for docking lines, installed dingy towing patches and dinghy tow rigging 

Chris was lingering around and we were busy so I assigned him to install a carbon water filter for the boat tanks which he succeeded in.

Sunday we tested the new systems - sailed to the sandbars, had some steak hache and came back.  Chris showed up and we had some MMHA beer at the club.

Single Handed to Pointe Claire

On Monday afternoon I loaded the car with mast frame and other stuff to the club in the afternoon to work on the boat.  

I ended up helping Northern Sun whose Yanmar 3GMD was not turning over.  She was stuck at Dowers and ended up sailing back to her dock. The problem was a weak connector to the panel.  Quel Surprise.

I set off motoring in a West wind to the Gut, checking out the new drive chain.  She worked flawlessly.  I anchored outside the Pointe-Claire church.  BBQ my pork chop, slept and got up the next morning to sail back to the club.  I decided not to testify at Jessica's TAL hearing. She was poor at communicating about the issues in the case.  I was not clear what I was going to be witnessing. 

I got back to the dock at 10, changed the sails,  inflated the new dingy, organized the boat and locker and went out to test the dingy.

On Wednesday, I biked out to Boathouse, Home Depot and the new Addison's in Pointe-Claire to get screws, cables, fuses, clevis pin, plumbing for water filter.  I biked back to the club, intending to bring the Argon 24 bike back home, but the U-lock no longer worked.  It had been there all summer.

The Bellum splash

Bellum is splashed with a new strut and shaft at 12:30.  All systems go.  Packing adjusted. No leaks from the new transducer. Transducers work

Chiheb was going to be driving his wife to the airport and we decided to get together for a beer.  Instead, we went sailing with a south wind, we beamed to Beaconsfield and back in the dark for a two-hour cruise.

Amalia J100 - Shelby

 I had rigged Shark 2 to race with Scarlett.  Shelby walks by and he is sailing without crew so I decided to join him with Scarlett and de-rigged the shark

Nice sail with the 150, which unfortunately ripped on the way back after the race.  We came in last :(

Supper at the club. I bought a pitcher.