Sailing with Rachel, Daina and Barry

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 Joe's boat.

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

Rachel sailing and then single handed to sandbars

After morning yoga, Rachel came, and we set sail with both the main and the jib, since the main had not been put away the night before.

The winds were great.  We sailed to the gut and had to do one tack at the red, then a second tack to get through the gut, and it was easy sailing through the TRY regatta.  We had lunch while sailing, and then the winds died and became very fluky.  It was difficult to follow the fluky winds.  It kept changing directions.

We sailed by the Pleasurecraft Raft Up and then sailed on.

It turns out that I had emptied the water tanks while washing the Friday BBQ dishes.  There lots of dishes.

At 5, I dropped Rachel off at PCYC to take the 211 back into town. The service dock was quite busy, and I had to tie up near the mast crane.  A safety officer from the TRY regatta helped me dock as I had problems getting close to the dock. Rachel threw the midship line to him, and we did a fairly elegant docking.  The safety officer was wearing goggles and a big hat.  It turned out to be Jerome!  

I walked Rachel to the 211 bus, and I returned to the club and tried to get permission to stay a while or the night.  Nobody could give me permission, so I hung around for an hour and then took off.  I headed towards the west, but winds were too light, and I limped to the sandbars, passing Dissidence.

Saturday fluky winds

The next day, Sunday, was a lazy day.  Fugu, Dissidence, and Zig-Zag were rafted up nearby.  They had not invited me, so I did not ask to raft up.  I sailed by and shot some photos.

I sailed back to the club and cleaned up the bugs from the night at the sandbars.

Made a BBQ from leftovers from Friday and biked back home in the evening.

Sunday winds - very light

FFR Jesica and BBQ

Jessica, Romain, John and Eugenie came to sail in the Friday Fun Race.  

Romain has never been on a sailboat. Eugenie is taking a sailing course, and she is a pretty amazing kid.

We had great winds. John helmed most of the race.  A little rusty, but he has only been sailing for a year.

After the race, we anchored without the engine near the pin and had a BBQ and then hauled anchor without the motor and sailed back through the channel and then started the motor as it was 10:30PM

Corrected time, we came in 17th out of 18

Thurday GNS cancelled

Chris drove me to the club.  We thought it might clear up for the race, but it did not and at 3PM, it did not look good, so I cancelled, and at 6 PM, the Race Organizer had cancelled the evening race.  Chris drove me back home.