Single handed

Wednesday was rainy.  I cancelled our sailing with Shelley.  I sat around the club cleaning up and napping.

About 5 the second rainfall came through and although there was still a weather warning, I took off to Dockers.  Tried anchoring three times before being somewhat satisfied. Had a pork chop supper about 9.  Some lightening but no real winds.

Thursday set off through he windmill point channel and tacking towards Solange, but the radio blared Gale Force warnings so I ran down the seaway and motored across the zig-zag and when on the other side winds were nice and I sailed for several hours in good winds awaiting the Thursday DNS single-handed.


The weather looked very dark over Dorval and very nice West so I went west. The winds did a 180 right after the race so I ran West.  Peter suggested that he was at Dowkers so I went to Dowkers to find that he was tucked deep inside with his centreboard up.  I ended up on the outer edges of the bay. Supper was porkchop. A very nice day of sailing in good winds.

East

West

Friday I unhooked and slowly sailed back with the plan to help Redline remove her batteries.  Peter motored back as I was caught unexpectedly.  The winds died and I motored a bit and then the winds picked up and I sailed some more.  Tried to find out what time Norm was coming to the club but I could not reach him so I sailed a circuit around the lake did an informal race with Slow Dancer and came back to the club to do some paperwork with Jocelyne.  Norm made it eventually and we took out the batteries and tried installing new ones but he was missing the battery terminal screws.  We drove out to Ile Perrot to get the screws and I bought a new Bolt hybrid battery Group 24 for Bellum.

The Friday race was cancelled and we had a nice supper at the club with Norm, Jimmy and Maud.  Chris came and put his boom and mainsail on.

After Norm and I visited Jameson and I slept aboard.

Tuesday race with Glen

We were considering sailing with Glen and his wife and daughter for the Tuesday race.  But it was too windy.  Talisman went out to before the Gut and turned back.

We tried the full main, but we were overpowered.  1 reef was needed for 15 knots of wind.  Glen took the helm.

After the first circuit, I shoked off the reef.

We came back in and I had a pork chop and slept aboard.

Saturday with Investors Meet-up group

On Saturday morning, I biked to pick up some Somosa for our guests from an Investment Group.

Robert, Romy and Catherine had a great sail to Grand Anse for a swim and had supper followed by a sunset and a night sail back to the club.

Everyone had a great time.

Engine battery had problems starting again.

I slept aboard and biked back to the office to catch another meetup on bonds and update my blogs.

FFR Jimmy and Morgans

Jimmy Scott and John came to race the FFR.

Jimmy took the first triangle and John took the second triangle.

Boat only had the 135 but with John there, the boat came in third against boats with larger headsails.  A great evening.

I left the battery selector to the engine battery and the engine did not start.  Started on house battery.

Jimmy, John and Scott stayed for supper  

Thursday Race with Yanick and Sylvie

Yanick wanted to race before but there was no space for him.  Norm planned supper with Family and MHA and the weather was nice so it was a good opportunity to take Yanick and Sylvie out racing.

Nice race.  We did poorly.  Winds were light.  We had the 135 headsail.  We had a good time.

Tuesday two hour race with Maud

Winds were light.  

RC set a long course

Most boats DNF.

David gave me the code to open the gate.

Slept aboard and biked home Wednesday evening to work on Thursday.

Soulange

Garfield, Lidia, Athena and I set sail for Soulange at 10:45.  Nice sail from the Gut through Wind Mill Point to Point des Cascade. 

Rafted up to Redline.  Zig Zag showed up later followed by Fugu.  Gaucho ended up at Dowkers.  Munching on Chicken Salad sandwiches.

Swam and pretty much everyone stayed on their boats in COVID isolation.

Our supper was hot sausages and caesar salad.

About 10:45 we separated and Zig Zag had problems anchoring and after three attempts, they went back to Dorval.  Fugu and I had no problems.

I got up at 6:30 on Sunday morning and saw Fugu had left and Redline was preparing to leave.  I

checked the weather and there was a small bit of rain coming and then gale-force winds 

I decided to wait out the rain and capture the pre-gale winds. We had bagels and scrambled eggs.  

At 11 we pulled anchor and motored to the seaway and back through the zig-zag channel.  There was no wind.  No Rain.

The guest departed and I lingered around the pool and club.  Cleaned up the boat.  Re-oiling the teak that was messed up by sweat of the guest.

Winds did eventually picked up in the afternoon.  

Chris showed up to install some electronics (VHF and chart plotter) and I installed his new blue fenders.

Chris drove me to the amboise locker with my bike and a piece of 4 x 8 plywood that Maurice gave to me.  Then he drove me to the office and the rain came down hard so he drove me home.

FFR with JImmy Dan and Denise

Jimmy, Dan, Denise and I raced the FFR.

A fine time for all.  Jimmy, Maud, Audrey and Michel had supper at the club.

Single handed calm and very windy tomorrow with lots of weed

After lingering around after sailing with Stephanie and Athena, I decided to head out in low winds.

Met Redline on the way to the Gut. Winds were light so I decided to anchor in Valois Bay near Venture.  

After anchoring a large patch of seaweed floated onto Bellum fouling her rudder and propeller.  It was a mess to clean.  I raked much of it off and I had to dive to get the rest off. 

Supper was Beef Kebabs.

Thursday winds were 10 knots from the south.  I got up had breakfast, feeling q little queazy and lazy but got rigged with the full rig and sailed doing 6.5 knots in 15 knots for SE.  Sailed for about 3 hours as winds picked up and I came back to the club.  Texted Yanick to help me dock with the southerly winds.

The rain came in hard and Norm and I decided not to race.  Slow Dancer did go out and RC did not even come out. 

I had planned to dive to clean the propeller on our way to the race but never did that.

Lingered around the club, chatted with Veronica and then sleep aboard sans supper.

It rained Friday morning so I attacked the sub-panel fixing the Bluetooth adapter to the rear output and wired up the water tank gauge.  I checked the AM FM wiring but it was fine.  Eventually, it turned out to be a finicky subpanel switch on the main panel.

I BBQ the rest of the beef kebob for lunch.  

From the photo logs, I seem to have hauled Norm up his mast to replace the PTZ camera. Memory is not so good when you don't update your logs.

I motored the boat to the service dock for diesel and pump out and cleaned the masthead.  

Sat on the lawn enjoying a McAdam Cider waiting for the FFR.

Sailed with Stephanie and Athena

A nice day sailing with Athena and Stephanie.  Returned to the dock at 4.

I lingered around the club and decided to out sailing single-handed afterwards.

DNS Series 1 race 2

I biked to the club to race the Tuesday night race with Maud.  I think we did fairly well


We tackled back to the club.  I was hot and Maud was cold.  Maud went home and I had some wine and sushi aboard Smoke on the Water.

I slept aboard,