Nice October Friday, no crew

Its a nice day... no crew

Tuesday with Chris

Nice warm October, 24 degrees.  Good winds.

Chris and I met at the club and we went out in about 10 knots of Southerly winds.

Nice sail to Dowkers and back.  Left about 4, back about 7. 

Installed the Actisense to interface the Standard Horizon AIS data to the Raymarine network.  The GPS sentences came through, but the AIS sentences did not come through.

Supper  at Ye Old Orchard.

Pas de deux

Daniele and I did one of our favorite races, the Pas de deux hosted by PCYC

Therapy and Chaos and Bellum represented the club.

We left the house late.  Highway 20 was closed for construction near the 20.  Had to drive to Cote St. Luc and back down.  Got to the club and raced to the boat and set off to the course.  Saw Therapy just after the GUT with motor problems.  Turned around and offered to tow her.  She declined. She was fine.

We waited about 20 minutes for the wind.

The course was

31(start gate)-33(P)-42(S)-44(S)-32(finish)

We thought we were too early for the start, gybed and we ended up quite late for the start.

Winds were light.  Later the wind was very shift (shitty).  We got to 33 and 42, but everybody had problems finding 44.  And the winds were so shifty, it was hard deciding when to tack. Sometimes the winds would bring you to the mark when you were 90 degrees off the mark.  Interesting.  It lasted 3 1/2 hours.

Got back to the club and Daniele raced to Linda's father's funeral while I changed the engine and transmission oil.  Forgot about the oil filter.

Shark Sailing

Only Dissidence needed crew... I was walking to Kelly's boat when Audrey asked if I could crew with them.  Oh well, never raced a shark so here we go..

3rd place Frostbite PHRF

Another cradle reunited with her child

I promised to help Andre bring her cradle back from Kingston.

Saturday was supposed to be a miserably rainy day so it was a good day to move the cradle.  If it was not so bad, we would both rather be sailing.

The cradle was about 3 feet bigger than Bellum's.  But we manged to get her loaded with just the two of us with crowbar and a hydraulic jack and some Egyptian engineering.
Met at 0830 and got back at 1830