Prizegiving

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Last Sail

Sunday morning, I dropped off boat stuff at the locker and picked up the boat frame, and loaded it onto the locker.  Sylvie and I organized her boat until 4PM.  

Then I drove to Confederation park to join a hike, but it turns out the hike was at 2, not 4. I drove back to the club. Chatted with Andre Baby and Mark Eisenberg,  bought a bottle of MMHA from Veronica and set sail into the sunset without any wind.  Motored to the waters east of the lighthouse anchored, cleaned the anchor rode, and had St Hubert Ribs (the one with minimal sauce) and potatoes and onions.  Read a bit and went to bed early as I was tired. 

Woke up at 7:30 in the morning, not winds so I motored back to the club and rotated stuff between the boat, the dock, the locker and the car.  Took down the headsail.  Eventually, we hauled out OS and then Bellum about an hour later than scheduled. 

I stayed to winterize the head, washdown, and raw water system.  Cutting the pick-up hose made things easier.   Packed up the food from the fridge, removed a stanchion base of Polvinge and drove home.

Not much wear and tear on the keel bottom after so many hits this year.

82 hours on the engine

approx 300 nm - to be checked.

84 trips from the dock, 32 were single-handed.

Total log 6777 nM.  1074 nM

Spontaneous sail with Sylvie

 After an information meeting about the club capital plan, Sylvie and I went out for a sail.  

We motored to the hot and sailed to Baie d’urfie and back to the club. 

I loaded up the car with locker and boat stuff and trailer and drove Veronique home. 

Emptied food at home and other stuff in the locker.

October 26 - Anchor DRAG

I departed the club at 11:30 with some help from Chaos.  A glorious day of sailing in 23C weather

Chaos

Chaos

I tried to anchor at Dowker’s but I kept hitting bottom, even as I tried to get out of the bay.  So I went sailing around the lake one more circuit and anchored at Grand Anse, ready for 15 knots gusting to 30. 

Sailing into the sunset

The forecast was for a windy night

Overnight was unnerving.  

The anchor alarm came on a few times as she dragged a few feet. 

At 5am the expected gusts came up to 28 knots from the North and the anchor dragged south 400 feet.  Then she dragged 1/2 nM to the shallows in the southeast.  I came to the cockpit, started the engine, and tried to keep the boat from drifting.  

At 5:45, I let out another 50 feet of rode for 130 feet, which seemed to stop the dragging. I was now in 8 feet of water. The initial anchorage was 6 feet. 

In theory, the west wind forecasted would have dragged her safely into the main lake. 

Drifted from Original anchor to Final Anchor

At 9 AM, I started to pull the anchor in 15- 19 knots of winds.  It was a slow delicate process of moving the boat forward, pulling in some rode, clearing the rode from under the windlass, moving the boat forward, repeat.  Naturally, there was a large bunch of weeds and we were close to shallow water.  

Motored out of Grande Anse and sailed back to the club in 15 knots WNW.