No racing, the weather was wet and windy. I had the 150 on and only Sylvie was there. I had no desire to change the head sail in that wind.
Brian was light on the crew and invited us aboard. Sylvie decided not to go and I did. We motored to Pointe Claire when the race was cancelled due to "poor visibility". We sailed back on the main.
Rod gave me a lift home since I was on the bike and it was rather wet.
Sunday morning, Egan departed, and I went to clean mom's apartment. A lady came by looking at a dresser but it would not fit in her car, so I offered to bring it to her home in Montreal West on my trailer. It turned out to be on Ronald drive, past Ville st Pierre. At this point, I decided not to return home and head directly to the club for some badly needed recreation.
There was no wind and several boats headed to the sandbars. I rafted up to Mike and Scott. Lori was with Mike. Audrey joined us later. Jason was a few feet away so we swam there to meet up with them on Fugu.
Mike provided chicken and beef shish-kebob.
They departed about sunset and I anchored at the sandbars for the night.
Tuesday morning I departed at 8 am with a west wind - running at 6-6.8 knots getting back to the club at about 9:10.
Nice three days alone or almost alone.
Changed the sheets and left the trailer in the yard, came home, unpacked the car, and finished cleaning mom's apartment, and came home.
Sylve convinced me to come to the club. I biked to the club.
In the end, the weather did not look so good so I hopped on Slow Dancer, and motored to Pointe Claire where AJAX declared the race abandoned so we sailed back to the club. Rod gave me a lift home.
Very light wind racing with Maude and Sylvie. Bet $4 against Ryan on Slow Dancer.
We lost by 1 minute 28 seconds corrected time.
It started raining as we were approaching the club channel and we got drenched.
Supper at the club. It stopped raining but I slept aboard getting up early to cycle home about 9AM in preparation for mom's services on Friday.
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Due to very poor late planning, I had almost zero crew for the AQVA race. In the last week, I must have called 25 candidates and no one was available. Audrey had an extra crew and she gave me Glen. During the FFR, Mary joined along with Jocelyn. In the morning, Mary asked if she can move to Liam's boat and I approved it. Then Jocelyn cancelled last minute and Glen came late, we rushed to switch head sail from the 135 to 155 due to light winds forecasted.
We motored to the course and had a reasonable start. at 11:30 from the scratch boat. We made it to the first two marks and got caught in the crowd after the second mark.
I had promised Glen that we would be back by 4 so we returned to the club and had a dip in the pool.
Supper with Patrick, Sylvie and Peter.
Bowmar at the bar and aboard Fugu after the bar closed with Ed and Kelly, Mike and Karla and Jason.
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I biked to the club Thursday PM.
Christine jumped ship to sail with Jocelyn on Silence at the very last minute. Seemed there was a misunderstanding on what boat she was going on. I had not known Jocelyn was looking for crew.
Mary helmed the first circuit and David helmed the second. Many mistakes were made but great learning experances.
It was an excellent learning experience for both of them.
Mary stayed for supper. Jocelyn asked if he could join Bellum for AQVA and I accepted.
I biked to the club on the Norco, for the first time this year. I need to do it more often. I just met Pat for a haircut and swam a bit.
I warmed myself up and took Bellum out at 8PM, anchored at 9 behind the church and before BYC. It was a North wind. Made my Italian Sausages.
The next morning, I got up slowly and weighed anchor, drifted out and then sailed back to the club, and packed the car with stuff for home and locker. I put the inflatable Kayak and 155 in Norm's locker. Drove to the funeral home to make arrangements for mom;
After dropping off the guest, I took off at 7:40 PM sailing to the gut, towards the sandbars when I saw Zig-Zag returning so I headed west instead of the Sandbars. I ended up at outside Dowkers where I set the anchor avoiding going deeper since there seemed to be several boats sans anchor lights. No supper as I had eaten BBQ earlier in the day
The next morning I set sail at about 11. Patrick sent an email asking to confirm buoys existence for the AQVA race. So I went hunting for the buoys all over the western lake, eventually to Ile Perrot.
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After Dowkers, the wind died and my battery was low so I motored to St. Anne and walked around. Newman was there.
I motored back, deciding not to stay near IPYC since it was no longer listed in Active Captain and there was no wind on Monday. I anchored in Grand Anse after passing through the channel south of Dowkers.
Monday morning at 11, I set sailing or drifting for 40 minutes when I decided to start the motor and went back to the club.
I helped Patrick set up the AQVA spreadsheet, washed Bellum and cycled to Mom's to find an unpleasant surprise.
Andréanne cancelled last minute and I invited Darla to join Ola and Miche. Natalia had work to do so she could not make it. Ola bought burgers, chicken burgers and chicken legs and we had a feast after sailing to Baie'd Urfie and then the sandbars for swimming and BBQ.
At 7 I motored back and dropped off the guest and departed for an overnighter by myself.
I biked to the club a little later than planned to help Peter raise his mast. But they were not ready and the docks were occupied so I cleaned up a bit.
Mast went up with a few problems that were eventually fixed with a hammer.
Several last-minute crew changes were done and in the end, it was Krill, Felix, Natalia, Scott and John, the father of Scott. John and Scott were really last-minute additions. John was really amazing at the helm.
Winds were forecast to be light (about 4 knots, but we got up to 9 and RC extended the windward mark for the second leg.
Supper at the club and we visited Felix's 41-foot power boat.
I slept aboard.
After I arrived aboard Redline and Sylvie worked hard on her boat, we both were eager to go out for a race.
We took off at 17:20 and motored to the Gut with little expectation to race due to a lack of winds, the winds did pick up and we had a good race in.
I helmed.
The first leg was tough on the downwind leg even with a good start, AdLib ran port in front of us. We got to the windward mark a little behind Just Now, which was not bad.
But the downwind was miserably slow up to 1.6 knots.
The second upwind leg as fluky due to shifting winds. We decided to tack and got a big lucky lift making it to the mark when we were not expecting it.
On the downwind leg, we decided to put up the whisker pole and we got up to 4 knots. Quite a difference, but we were the last to complete the race.
We motored back on autopilot in the dark and put everything away underway, docked and had supper with Ghost Owl crew.
Sylvie drove me home so I could bike back to the club the next time.
It was nice to be under command on the water again after ten days on the QEII.
Brian and I departed the Royal ona great adventure Follow BELLUM at https://bellumicwbah.blogspot.com/
