Single handed to Grand Anse

 After the final DNS race, I packed up the stuff to do an oil change and decided to go sailing instead.

Nice sail from the club south, then through Valois Bay the gut and then to Grand Anse where I thought I heard an emergency call from Dowkers but it was from Lake of Two Mountains.

I anchored at Grand Anse and had a nice night. Finished off the last duck leg.  

The next morning was windless so I motored back, doing an "Italian tune-up" and changed the engine and transmission oils

Biked back to the office but light showers diverted me home

DNS with Chris and Norm

 Chris Norm and I sailed the final DNS in relatively windy conditions.  

Finished last on both races.Thinking of taking up golf,

Saturday with Natalia

We are going through a mini-heatwave in the last weekend of September in Montreal 

I had supper with Toni and the next morning, I biked to the club hoping for a great weekend on the boat.  There was no wind so I waited a bit before departing when Natalia called and said she wanted to go sailing so I waited for her on the lawn while reading Scott's Gazette.

Winds were light, very light but it was hot, not bad for the end of September.

She arrived and we motored to the gut, tried to sail but there was not much wind and it was hot so we swam in 17-degree water.  It was nice.

Wishing Jason a happy Birthday

We sailed to Grand Anse and had a vegetarian supper due to her pancreatic situation.

Natalia

The next morning we motored back to make it for the final Fall DNS with Norm and Chris.  Norm helped me dock in South Winds.

Redline mini boys trip

Norm and I took off for a boy's trip.  We anchored overnight at Dowkers.  Monitored Richard doing a boat maintenance course.

Fixed the dinghy winch control and replaced the dinghy blocks.  Visited Gordon's former fort and hunted for poison ivy..  We had a slow return to the club.  

Friday I redid my winches and installed wash down switch in the anchor locker.  Had supper with Toni at Taklamakan and then decided to come home.  I decided it was too late to head back to the club.

Afternoon sail with Laure

After the single-handed race, I went out for a nice afternoon sail with Laure.

Single Handed Pursuit Race

I woke up in the penthouse, I did not feel like racing - it was cold and winds were light, but Jason’s FB post convinced me to go .. by bike.   

The race started late waiting for winds. 

The race started at noon.  I was ahead but messed up at the first mark, forcing me to jibe to make the mark.  

Got bad luck against the second mark, but gots a lucky lift at the third mark AD28 with a lift.  The downwind was uneventful, my $600 whisker pole let me pass Regalia and Flow Control, but could not catch up to Fugu who was well ahead.  

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Club Championships 2 - insane winds

 Norm and I took Shark 4 for the second seedings for the club championships.

Winds were supposed to be strong with gusts to 23 knots or so.  We watched Shark 2 go out at 4:45 and it looked a little tough.

We got out at 5:30.  The winds did pick up at 6 and were quite wet by 6:30.  It had fun.  Pierre's shark lost the halyard at the beginning of the first race.

We got the boat to plane.  It was awesome.

We were last but we did our course.  The final gype into the harbour was a little haphazard as we struggled to un-cleat the main. 

I changed clothes and decided to ride home on my bike but on the way to the bike, I went to say Hi to Mike and was invited to supper of marinated pork chop and macaroni salad.  

I slept aboard and biked to my meeting the next morning.

final results 

No sailing with Laurie

 I was supposed to go sailing with Laurie but the winds were light, the temperature was 14 to 12 and there were some showers.  So I cancelled it.

Club Championships Race 1

Norm and I raced Shark 3.  We raced two races.  5 Sharks. Finished last both times.  But we made it to the Club Campionships!

Sailing with Ola, Mich, and Tom

Tom wanted to go sailing for the first time in his life.  He had registered for the Adult learning program but it was cancelled by COVID 19.  He had been studying with the ASA sailing app.

Ola has been with us last year and had her 8-year-old son Michael.

Arrived at 10:40.  Nice winds, went around the lake with a downwind start from the channel.  

When we return to the harbour about 4:30, Tom produced a Bowmore 12-year-old.  Ola and Mich left as Tom and I reviewed the sailing.  We almost finished the bottle. (It was a small bottle)  Chris showed up and power washed Flow Control and gave me and the Cube a lift home.

Friday nite at anchor

After the shark, Norm was having supper with family so I motored out to the bay beside the club to spend the night.

Very pleasant evening, even had wifi access to the club.  Not really as cold as forecast.

Shark No 2

I booked Shark No 4, but we were giving Shark No 2 since the key for No 4 was apparently misplaced.

Norm showed up at and we sailed her to 5:30 and had her packed up by 6.

Nice sailing...Used the Torqeedo to get back into the harbour ... because we could.

Left a reed bag and windbreaker aboard which I retrieved the next morning.

Hugh Kennedy Race

 After a busy week at the office from Sunday to Thursday, I was hesitant about going to the club due to the light wind forecast.

I delivered my accounting to the accountant by bike, visited Rachel for tea and then biked to the club arriving 5:20, prepared the boat without taking off the sail cover - not expecting winds.

Norm and Maud joined us and apparently, there was a skippers meeting with Chaos, Espresso and Bellum.  Jack Rabbit start, 31 33 starboard, gut AS15 but that was changed to 42, 32, gut, AS15 while underway due to changing wind conditions.

The winds really picked, we didn't do a great start, but at least we were starboard at the start.  Light pelleting rain came in as we were beating into the channel.  Seemed Norm go the worst of it at the helm and wearing glasses.

We were third and had supper inside the clubhouse with Pierre at the other table.

Winds seem stronger than what Sailflow recorded

We raced well, great competition

Last and final Friday Fun Race Pursuit and raft up 2020

We lost the RC so Bellum stood in to be RC.

It took almost an hour to get the fleet off and then I sailed up pass SL 43 when I saw Regalia on the downwind leg so I started heading to AS15 by sail and then by iron sail to finish the race.

Naturally, I was taking pictures all day.

We had a great raft-up party of about 10 boats.  Lara and Gee came aboard Bellum. Tara, Dissidence and Bellum stayed until 10:30 and returned to a very calm harbour single-handed.

Monday wind forecast 

The next day was super windy from the south so I did not stay out overnight for Labour day.  I cycled home on Monday morning killing the battery on Shrebooke and Westminister.  90 km on a nearly full charge.



It turns out I have fans on this blog.

This certainly will not help my FFR finishing position ;)