Cancelled GNS Tuesday

At 2:30PM, I cancelled our Tuesday race.  Supposed to rain at 7-8 PM and be fairly windy.  I took a walk in NDG, and it was much windier on Monkland than in the penthouse.

NIght at Grand Anse

After a day at the club washing the dinghy and reinstalling the dock wheel, the winds declined; I departed the harbour at 7PM and sailed on one tack to Grand Anse, arriving at 9 PM.

360 Photo

Zero carbon anchor and sautéed sausages with onions.  I forgot I had peppers and tomatoes.  

The next morning I lingered till 2PM and sailed into the main lake in a run. Before the gut, I turned and beat it to the southwest and northwest and decided to return to the harbour, arriving at 3:30.

Chris showed up with a wheel puller, and we pulled off the wheel from the binnacle.  It has seized since our Bahamas trip.  It came out easily with the puller.

I disassembled and washed out the Raymarine wheel drive.  It seemed to work reasonably well, with the broken screw holes discovered in January 2025 in the Bahamas.

Chris and I went to check out Tara's water, and we put up Chris' head sail.

I bugtek the boat, dinghy and dock and biked home.

Sunday Maud Cup - NOT

Sunday morning, I got up early and biked to the club, rushed to the boat, got her ready, and checked the club website to make sure the race was not cancelled.

I departed the harbour at 9 AM with a reefed main, but she was hard to control so I opened a reef jib, and it was still hard to control.  I checked my email and found the race had been cancelled at 8:49.  I turned back and returned to the harbour in shame.

I spent the day at the club, cleaning the dinghy with Tocade's pressure washer and reinstalling the medium dock wheel.

At 7, the winds declined, and I went out again.  See next log entry.

Sailing with Rachel, Daina and Barry followed by race on

I brought the car home to empty it at the locker, picked up Rachel, Daina, and Barry, and we set sail at the club, departing at noon. Nice sail; tacked to the gut and sailed to 1:15, anchored, had lunch and sailed again to 4-ish. 

I decided to stay at the club and offered Rachel the car to bring everyone home, but the logistics weren't working out, so they took the BMW, and I stayed for the FFR and found a place on Winged Hussar with Joe and Brian..

Brian

Fugu

Boat cleaning

I picked up some industrial Q-tips, which were great for cleaning the teak edges and louvres on the teak doors.

I also got these drill brushes from Temu, which were great for cleaning the non-skid

Windy Thursday Race

Scarlett, Maud, John and Natalie joined us for Series 3, Race 2 in windy conditions.

Tuesday Race Cancelled

 At 2, I decided to cancel the race.  Tornado warnings, etc.

AT 17h32, the Racing Organizer cancelled.  Scarlett went out with her crew on the J.