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Norm, Maud, Frank and Jean-Luc joined us in light and fluky winds

Tried the spinnaker sock and it was badly twisted.

Conventional spinnaker worked.

First race, we messed up.



Second race, on the second circuit, the winds were very fluky and we drifted and made a big circle around the windward mark.   We could not finish and abandoned the race.

We tried to fly the spinnaker back to the club. 

The winds shifted to the east so we reversed under motor filling the spinnaker.  Interesting.


Turns out they did try a third race.  A very short race.

Afterwards, we put up the mast on Flow Control.

Very very flaky winds

Mast is up

Meet-up repeat

Nice sail.  We hike on Dowkers and had supper while sailing.

Present were Phébé, Alex and Iwona

Flambe

Dining under sail

Single Handed weekend.

After the meet-up, I got up and went to the boathouse sale.

New Cockpit tent

Got a Ronstan AAir AIR ARCH Inflatable Boom Tent. Been wanting one for a long time.

Went to the fabric sale at the church at 1300 Carson. Got a BBQ chicken and had some chicken at the boat.

I cleaned up the boat from the meet-up.  Tidy up the locker.

Set up the new cockpit tent - pretty nice.

Nice tent

Went to Gaucho and had a beer.

I took a nap.

Watch Chris and Norm bring Flow Control to the club.

Went out to the bay beside the club and put the tent back on.

Had a swim - water warmed up to 19C

Saw Fugu go out.  He reported 4 knots of winds at the sandbars.

Nice sunset.  Zero winds. Had a good sleep.  Got up the next morning.

Cindy cancelled our sailing.  I called Jimmy to tell him it was too windy for sailing.

Winds were suppose to be light and then 15 gusting 30.  I sailed to the channel and stood still for about two hours as the four Laser 28's passed me.

Eventually I was drifting precariously so I motored to the main lake and drifted some more.  Around  noon the winds picked up and I was sailing.  Not a concern in the world except for the 30 knot gusts in the forecast.  About 1:30, the winds got to 18 and then down to 15 and I decided to head back to the club.  Peter passed me the docking line.  Good thing in a west wind.

Hung around the club, tidy the locker, moved some stuff between boat and locker

Had a beer on Gaucho. She had bent her spinnaker pole.

Forecasted wind for the afternoon

Chris came in and we helped him stow the mast.

Afterwards I washed the deck and filled the starboard water tank.

I tried washing Flow Control coach roof.  It was pretty disgusting.  Got some dirt off.

Actual winds

Meet-UP

Phoebe, Alex, Iwona and Natalia come out for nice afternoon of sailing.

Winds were good.  Sailed around and we decided to stay later to have a BBQ, loud music, watch the sunset and someone smuggled a bottle of Gray Goose. <geeze>

A great night sail back.  Ran aground north of the Gut.  There was sailboat anchored will full anchor lights there that obscured the Red Buoy. I did not double check the chart plotter. Was able to motor out.

We got back at 12:30 and I cleaned up the boat the next day.

GNS Fall R2

Norm went to Champlain to help Chris demast.

Audrey says she had too much crew.  She offered me crew. Then she showed up very late and her crew was waiting for her.  Some of her crew wanted to race.

I took Maud, Sola and Mona.

We got to start line very late, we raced and abandoned the race.

Maud wanted to go back home to do groceries.

We did not do the second race.

Audrey did not race at all.

I stayed around to tidy up and did some labeling of the PI wiring.

A slow day of ...

Sailing with Jeff

After talking about it since spring, I finally got to take Jeff out sailing.

A nice day out. Light winds in the beginning and white caps when we finally came in.

Adam was invited too, but he could not make it.

Note: Speed transponder was stuck.

Thursday with Earendil 1 -

Norm and I got to the club at 5 to sail Earendil with Bob.  Nathalie had to cancel - meetings

Norm took the helm.

Very exciting start = we got to the start line as the race was about to start.  We tacked to starboard between several boats.  Chaos came very close to us.  It was crowded and Earendil  stalled the headsail in a big traffic jam.  Denise avoided us and we fouled Slow Dancer.  We did our 360.

The rest was not so exciting.  Results were 8 out of 11



Came back to the club and had supper with Maud and Audrey who were alone on the Laser 28.

I slept aboard.

Friday Single handed

Thursday night, I stayed aboard to rest and do some boat work

Friday morning, I cleaned the deck, improved the pick up line pole, tied down loose wires in locker lighting, cleaned dinghy and inflatable kayak put the kayak away for the season

Then in the afternoon, I went for a sail

Yes, there is a main sail under the cover

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Confused path

Dorian giving us east winds

Windmill Point Shield race with Chris and Frank

Frank from PCYC wanted to race with us.  I invited Chris. 

Chris was supposed to pick up me up at Reno Depo.  He did but had an emergency with Erika's wheel chair and we had to drive to WHS to bring her home and then rush to the club. 

We motored out fast and made the race with time to spare. 

Came in dead last.

By the time we got back to the clubhouse, the other crews had finished supper and left the club.