Saturday sail with Rachel

 I had a good night's sleep aboard with the hatch covered.  Got up at 8 and tidy the boat and did Yoga which started early.

Rachel showed up about 10h45 and we sailed out of the channel tacking to the gut.  

Rachel had difficulties holding a course and while guiding her, we came close to many underwater hazards. Especially concerning was we passed over the one that got damaged the boat from PCYC just southeast of PCYC. We did not hit bottom.

We anchored near the sandbar and Rachel prepared a giant niçoise salad for us with carrot green soup.  We did not have space for dessert until after we got back to dock at about 17h30.  

As usual, we motored very little and mostly sailed.

I took Rachel and the e-bike back home.  Much better winds than the previous outing with Rachel.

Private Lessons and a cancelled FFR

I went sailing with Nicolas and Melanie on Friday morning for 2.5 hours and Tim in the afternoon for 2.5 hours.  These were the first private lessons I gave.  In the afternoon, I reefed the main using lines from Bellum.

My regular Friday Fun race crew all abandoned me.  Asked about 8 persons and nobody was available.  I got two from Adult sailing graduates.  

In the end, the race was cancelled due to excessive winds.  

So I chatted with Paul and Audrey and had supper at the club with them.

Bette Noir, Treize and Slow Dancer went out.  Michel and Nadine went out with Bette Noir.  Temperatrure was about 17 C

Morning sailing with Darla

I was supposed to go home Wednesday to do some office work.  Woke up at 6:30 to pack up but the weather was so nice, I texted Darla if she wanted to sail.  

She showed up at 8 and we sailed in light winds from the club channel on a run to the gut and broad reach to Baie d'Ufie sitting together on the foredeck.

We sailed back past PCYC AD20 and started the engine to get back for noonish.

Passed Marin on the shark after the Gut.

The afternoon was supposed to be windless but far from that.  Sailflow fails again.

I did laundry at the club, lingered around until the final Adult Education exams, 

Had a beer on the lawn with the daytime adult sailing school.

We had not reserved for supper and there was no space at 5 so Liam and I had a Lief aboard Kalassi.

Then had a beer with the class and drove Veronica back after she had a very very had day.

Awesome Tuesday GNS with Sylvie and Maud

Maud and Sylvie showed up at 5 and we took Bellum for a pump out and towed Scott and Phenix's shark out to the racecourse.

Winds were forecast to be very low, but it was excellent.  Sailflow fails, Environment Canda had it right.

We had an excellent start, kept up with the fleet and then we fell behind.  

Sylvie lost her right stand and we had a great time doing a Shoe Overboard.  

At the finish, Siberian pushed us up at the final leg - twice, probably because he did not like our big sails blocking his wind.  

It was a very long race, about 1 and a half hours.

Returned to the club almost in the dark. Sylvie uncomfortably bought Bellum into the harbour as Maud and I put on the mainsail cover.

Bad day on shark, Good day on shark

I was not supposed to teach daytime Adult Sailing, but I volunteered to do Monday and Tuesday daytime courses due to communications issues.

I just got back from Redline trip and intended to do a couple days of homework.  - duty calls.

Monday sailing was a disaster.  I got caught in the weeds and could not get out.  The crew was discouraged on their first day.  Maggie abandoned the ship.  Geoge was very unhelpful, in fact he was very disruptive 

When we finally got out, I found the bottom pintles for the rudder had come out as I was heading out of the harbour in strong winds.  I quickly did a U-turn and headed back into the club.  With minimal steering, I hit got to the wrong side of the service dock, hit a platoon boat, and managed to dock her.  

The evening sail was much better - We had two great races with great students.

On Tuesday I took another shark out with students and one of them was Geroge and the young lady who was with me on the Monday sail. We did fine.  George was a pain in the ass. 

At least my confidence in sailing and teaching sailing was intact.

Redline from Kingston to Dorval

Met with Redline at Confederation Basin.  Swapped crew.  

We planned to sail back slowly

Axiom was functionally badly and eventually blew the breaker.  We ended up using an iPad for navigation.

Met John at Gano

One day of sailing from Stave to 

We had the Sailrite so we replaced straps for the bimini and resewed the weakened stitches on the dodger.

Ate well, slept well.

We planned to return Monday but made it back on Sunday night July 25

weekend with Darla and Natalia

I had invited Natalia and Darla to sail on Saturday. They came late - about 2PM. 

There was no wind so we motored out. We had thought of going to St. Annes but decided on the sandbars.

Swam, tunes, Glenlivit, Bud lime,a BBQ trout and other stuff Natalia bought.  We got drunk.  Darla fell asleep at 8 and did not get up so we spent the night at anchor and Darla was up at 5, we chatted had breakfast.  It rained
overnight and we bought the boat back to the harbour.  

The girls left and I did a quick tidy up of the boat and went to Real and then Kingston to meet up for crew change on Redline.

Friday Fun Race with Michel and Nadine and David

Jimmy had an accident and was in the hospital getting stitches on his head.  He could not race so I called David to join Michel and Nadine who just inherited a shark and wanted to learn to race.

We had a great time.  Lots of fun.  Supper afterwards.  

Single handed to IPYC after lots of chores at the club.

Wednesday I got dressed up for a meeting on Trans Canada in Dorval.  Took the car in as it looked like a risk of rain and may not be back home until after Redline's return,  The meeting was quick and I did some errands on Doneganni and got some food from Adonis.  

I emptied the boat of extra sails and other stuff.  I put the battery charger on Cygnus, She is in pretty bad shape.  Dirty and very wet.

On Thursday I lounged around, setting up the big clock on Perception, waited around for Patrick to finish his meetings so we could look over Cygnus.  He was discouraged too.

Winds picked up a bit, it was hot so, at 4PM, I motored out, ending up at the west end of the bay beside the club.  I anchored and went for a swim and nap.  About 5, a hovercraft came by to inspect the groundings reported to them near AD14.

The winds picked up, I sailed south and then tacked towards the gut.  I almost hit a powerboat that was being boarded by police.  They were in my blind spot behind the sail.  Pretty cool collision avoidance by the cool captain.  Not even a blink.

I passed or was passed by Ghost Owl, Erindale, Chaos and Gaucho on the way to the race.  I decided to race so I put up the main and raced to the start but was too late and it was too crowded to have a have respectable opportunity to start so I just sailed around the windward and gybe marks watching and avoiding the competitors.  

Later I sailed to Ile Perrot and decided to dock at IPYC at 9:20 because the forecasted winds were high overnight.  The gate was locked.so I did not / could not check-in.

Nice evening, heavy rain overnight.  Left at 10 back to the club in a broad reach and run.  Arrived at the club at about 12:40.

Adult Sailing - Crash boat

I want one of these!

 

Anchor at Sandbars and then single handed race

After the new member cocktail party, I motored out to the Sandbars.  Zig Zag, Fugu and Don't Panic were there.  Only Don't Panic spent the night

On Sunday morning, Darla came to visit. We tied up.  She had engine problems.  We detached as she limped back to watch soccer (Italy vs Britain) as I did the single-handed race.  

Luc sent me the course and start times.  The race lasted 3 hours of light wind sailing - most of what was fetching. 

I came in 9th out of 12, but I did well. 

post race

The race was followed by some beer on the lawn and I biked back to the office to rid myself of the credenza.

Cancelled Strathcona - Sailing with Syvlie

The Strathcona race was cancelled due to a lack of wind.

I did my Yoga class and Sylvie and I went for a sail to Pointe Clair and back.  Observed Shark No 4 bypass the gut, reported it to Liam and Brian.

We did the new member cocktail with Maud and Sylvie.

Forecasted winds

Friday Fun Race with David

I took the bike to the office to clean the credenza and picked up the new mainsail for Strathcona.

Installed the mainsail and Jimmy helped fold and stow the sail.

David Jimmy and I had a nice light wind sail to the start.  The fleet arrived late and we only did a single triangle.  David was a new member, learning to race.

We were late for the dining room so everyone went home and Chris and I had some chicken aboard Bellum.  He had sailed with Nancy.

Peter raced on Gaucho with Audrey and Maud.  We had fun playing tag with her.

Wednesday on Slow Dancer

On Wednesday, I was lingering around the club, got stung by what I think was a bee on the toe - on the lawn.  Not feeling too great.  

I was reviewing what was needed for the cradle pads, evaluating the charging of Cygnus batteries and Brian invited me to sail on Slow Dancer with Scott and John.  I went sailing as Scott was tuning Slow Dancer's rigging.

Later on, we did Wednesday night Adult Sailing, practising Anchoring with Tony and Eric.  We grounded and got out without problems.

I gave V a lift home.  Thursday was a rain day. 

Sunset sail with Syvlie

After taking a short nap. I got up and saw a squall warning for lake St. Louis.  A line of rain was coming in from the North West on the radar map.  Without the squall warning, I would not have thought much about it.

Sylvie showed up and we decided to wait out the squall. We went to see her new Fintail. Very nice boat.  I tried to talk her into going VC-17, but she wanted to go with green CSC.  In the end, there was no CSC in stock and she went with VC-17.  

Frank from PCYC called to let us know that the race was delayed due to the storm warning.  I passed the message to Smoke on the Water and to Richard who passed it on the other racers.  Smoke on the Water Had already gone out.

Sylvie and I sat it out in the cabin and when the rain stopped, we went out for a nice sail, watched the race and had sunset sail back.

Tuesday Sailing

After delivering Cat Condo to Lindsay's I took the car to the club and did the Monday night Adult Sailing.  A nice evening of sailing into the sunset.  

I slept aboard and Tuesday looked story in the late afternoon. About noon, I took Bellum out with the intention of sleeping aboard at anchor.  As I sailed to Dowkers and Grand Anse, the storm looked like it was coming in later.  I decided to sail some more and Sylvie wanted to race, so I decided that it would be better to sit out the rain at the club so I went back to the dock and took a nap

Disappointment at Duggan Cup

I worked hard at trying to make the Duggan Cup race a race to Soulange but low water and concerns about the condition of the walls at Soulange as well as low water and not desiring to anchor caused us to race on Lake St. Louis only. 

Disappointing.  But it was good racing.

At 9h30 I was the only person who showed up.  My crew showed up late.  Jason said he could race Fugu at 1PM.  Luc called Patrick to convince him to come.

We started at 1PM near AD14.  Sylvie had assumed it was a Pursuit race and assumed Jason would let her in but Jason was also starting.  Sylvie was over early.  

Bellum moved well and led the pack but the handicap placed us a second.  The racing time was about 2 1/2 hours.

We decided to raft up at the bay near the club for protection from North East.  

Sylvie had picked up a lot of weed but Patrick had to dive into 20-degree water to de-weed.  We rafted up had some wine, supper and drafted.  

Tara II hit a rock and sat on the rock overnight.  The next morning when Luc came out with a club boat to tow him out.

Jimmy Maud and I had breakfast and lounged around at anchor until 4ish when we motored back to the club, had a  pump out and everybody returned home.

Friday Fun Race with Jimmy Nancy and Alison

 Jimmy Nancy and Alison came racing in a windy and energizing FFR race.  

The girls had a good workout in 15+ knots of wind.

Nice night at Valois Bay

 Winds were light.  Sylvie cancelled the Thursday GNS cos her sister was visiting. 

So I took advantage to go spend the night at anchor.  Packed the dinghy with me and departed at 3:40. I tacked through the channel and sailed to Pointe-Claire church when the winds died  I drifted around and at 5:30, I started the engine and anchored at Valois Bay and took the dinghy to tour Venture. All the boats had masts.

Exactly as forecast, the night was rocky with winds from the North gusting to 26.  At 7h40 it was challenging to pull anchor and rocky ride back to the club.  I had an easy docking with the dinghy alongside, northeast wind and a well-sheltered harbour.