Haul out

Early haul-out on Wednesday at 8:30.  Got up at 6 and got to the club before sunrise at 7.  No wind, just -2 C, so it was easy to drive to the travel lift single-handed.

Sunrise

Frosty

Empty the last of the perishables and the V-berth cushions for recovering.

Hauled out at 8:10, all good.  Some mud on the rudder, some heavy muck on the boot strip, but she was fairly clean.  

Quickly winterized everything.

Came home about noon.

Almost 14,000 nM

Drop main, Clean dinghy and go sailing and Masquerade party

On Saturday, I did a routine locker swap and went to the St. Laurent 400 presentation.  

After the presentation, I reorganized winter frame stuff, took down the main sail myself, and then dreaded cleaning the dinghy.  She was pretty bad and, to make matters worse, I had only used the dinghy about ten minutes this year.  After that, I decided to take her out for what is likely a last sail of the season.  

I had booked the haul-out for Wednesday, November 28, since I was planning to go to Antiqua to survey Peacekeeper.  That got cancelled.  I might have liked to keep the boat in the water since the weather was looking nice.

I departed at 1:50, sailed close-hauled to Pointe Claire, and gybed back to the club at 4PM for a final pump-out and to dock the boat.

Boat tachometer says 700 RPM

I checked the Yanmar tachometer and found it was reading about 30% low.  

Went to the Masquerade party at the club

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No race - tack to Grand Anse Cira, freeze and a run back

On Saturday, we agreed to cancel the Sunday Frostbite due to cold and lack of wind; it was too cold and busy.  

Sunday turned out to be rather nice, cold and windless.  The race cancelled due to lack of wind.

I unpacked the car and loaded it.

At 4PM, I departed into the channel, passed Bonita, who took a nice photo of BELLUM touching the cloud.  I subsequently put up the 155 head sail, tacked around the lighthouse and zig-zagged to Grand Anse using less than 15 minutes of diesel power.  It took3 1/2 hours to get to Grand Anse

Supper was liver and onions. 

I gave up trying to enter Grand Anse, but the wind was reasonable, so I anchored outside the Anse.

Anchorage

Well dressed

The next morning was cold, 4 at 7AM, but it warmed up fast. Winds were 15 knots.  I hauled anchor and drifted very safely into Lake St. Louis, unfouled a reefed genny and sailed back to the club to haul out Sedna VIII, Tara II, Redline and winterize Astri.

The track

 

Thanksgiving weekend, Frostbite NOT

Saturday afternoon, I did Yoga at 3, Arkavan and then headed to the club.  I had the car packed with winter cover and more, getting ready for haul-out at the end of the month.

I got off to a start a little past 18:00. I motored to the club channel and set sail for PCYC.   Tried out my new iPhone 18 PRO camera.  Night mode was great.

PCYC was empty and closed around 20:00.

I didn't feel like cooking, so I picked up a submarine sandwich at GiGi.  They were closing, so I took it back to the boat. 

I connected to shore power and got a good night's sleep.  Not too cold.

For the Sunday Frostbite, Nathalie joined us since Matthew decided not to race.  Maud was in Gaspe.  Mark and Shawn came out too.  We changed from 135 to 155 at the dock and set sail to the race area.  After over an hour, they cancelled the race due to a lack of wind.

For McGill Sailing, compliments of PCYC

We returned to the harbour, and I went out again. The winds were pretty much dead.  After 2 hours, I started the motor and couldn't decide whether to head back to the club or the Sandbars.  I went to the sandbars, anchored, and napped for a couple of hours.

I weighed anchor and started sailing to Dowkers. I anchored in the dark, made my pork chop and potatoes and garlic bulb.  I was out of aluminum paper; the roll I had was welded into a single aluminum core.  Arg.

I got up early and made a zero-carbon departure back to the club to haul out Redline and Tara II.  It was a very nice sail back to the club in a dead run.

 

Diesel from water separator

I got to the club at 9:15, pumped out, and fueled up.  I realized the haul-out was for Monday the 19th.

I serviced the main and spinnaker winches. It was messy.  I drained some diesel as a solvent/lubricant.  There were some small particles from the fuel separator, but no water.  Nothing major.

I tidied up the boat and removed some stuff.  I departed the club for Costco as the rain started.

Frostbite Norm, Scarlett and Maud.

The crew met at 8:45 and set sail to the Frostbite race. We tried to raise the main, but one sail tie was still attached, tightly knotted to a reef point.  Took a bit of effort to untie it as we sailed between Dorval and Dorval Island.  Once we released it, we tacked and motor-sailed to the race area.

Norm helmed the first two races, and we beat Slow Dancer in the second race. Maud helmed the third race, which was shortened to one loop.

We sailed back to the club with some brew, and I did an oil change after 67 hours since the last one.

 

I also tried to rig the boom kicker to keep it from falling out again.