October weekend - Warm week - del Sol Harvest Moon - Pas-de-deux, first Frostbite - SPI

Have not been on the boat since Monday.

After Yoga on Friday I picked up the DELSOL to drive Anna to the club.  Met with Katie at the club who drove her parents to the airport.  At 3:30, we took off to PCYC, chasing / following Redline. Winds were very light  Cloudy for full moon, but clearing for the sunset.

PIcked up Dine and Lucie at PCYC at 5:30 and set off sailing west into the sunset.  In the dark we rafted up with Redline at Dowkers South.

Dropped off PAX at PCYC and spent the night at the PCYC dock.- complicated but it all worked.

Saturday morning, Maud joioned me for the Pas-de-Deux which started about two hours late due to lack of wind.  

Good race.  I helmed, first time in a while.  We had a good start at 9m 09s.  Natually the Echelle and AdLib passed us.  We were competing with the Kelt and Friendship / Enemy Ship for the second half of the race, beating Friendship when he went for the wrong finish line.

I dropped Maud off at PCYC, sailed around, but could not get west, so I stayed at the sandbar with a great Haravest moon apres.  Winds were ten knots, which was more than expected.  The winds were whisling on the rigging.

Sunday at 7, I pulled anchor and sailed to PCYC to pick up crew - Norm, PAT, NAT.  Winds were light and we agreed to fly the SPI.  First race, we headed to the wrong mark. SPI was poorly raised on both downwind run.  Second race was cancelled - RC decided there was not enough wind.  

me bad - did not scroll down to last page of SI

We sailed, trying to to get upwind so we could fly the SPI, but we were just wearing a North South track in front of BYC.  We did get the SPI up again but winds shifted bringing us to shore.  But we did dry the SPI.

Major screw ups, but we were doing the SPI

We motored back to PCYC (Not BYC) and I hit a rock at about 4 knots, but it was hard.

Dropped off the crew and I went back to the Royal, tighted the throttle cable, changed the oil, packed the dinghy and drove Vero home, dropped off the dingy 

Anchor, Chilly Bowl Race, Vaclav’s mechoui and those crazy Russians

After Yoga with Shiela, I motored to PCYC to pick up Eric and Scarlett for the Chilly bowl race.  

The next two weeks are supposed to be fantastic weather.

I never got my email for the start time for the Chilly Bowl race.  Eric did. It looked like there were only four boats, but there were many more.  The winds forecast were to be very light.  I bought along the spinnaker to play with if there was no race.

Eric's email

We changed head sail from the 135 to 155 to accomdate the light winds forecasted.  

RC was not really with it .. not paying attention when I tried to register or confirm my registration.  The race was postphoned with the postponement flag, but the horn signal was a single horn instead of the customary two horn

Eventually the race started.  I had the wrong firt mark and I realized that when the fleet was heading west and I thought the first mark was 31 to the east. My start time of scratch boat plus 12 minutes and 60 seconds  <sic> but it was well timed.

Scarlett helmed the first couple of marks and then Eric took over.  Eric does not listen to instructions, deviates the steering and keeps trying to see marks that marks that were too far to see with the naked eye.  He does not trust the crew for collision avoidence.  We eventually finished, last.

We had supper at PCYC's Vaclav’s mechoui Pig Roast.  I have been trying to get to this event for years without success.  I finally made it to this prestigages event.

This is NOT Royal

the band

I spent the night a the PCYC dock. 

the dock

Not much space for Jerry

Peacefull night except for Jerry

Sunday morning Ola, Mich and Yuliya joined us for a day of sailing.  MIch was ten years old.  Yulria was a friend of Ola.

Yulria 

Ola Mich

Mich

We watched the GNS races.

We sailed, swam, picnic, sailed and return the guest to PCYC.  

I escorted them out and then had to move Bellum since she was blocking Perscrption from leaving the harbour.

The sail back to the club

Full moon coming

Monday's forecast was 15 knots so I decided not to take that with the 155 so I came back to the club.

Monday's forecast

Monday was very windy

 

Chatted with Jason, Chris and Mikey - bitching about the club.

I biked home.

Night at anchor

Yoga got cancelled. I biked to the club, picked up my regular favorites at Falafel St Jacques and set off to anchor at sunset.  Expresso and Andre's Nonsuch went out about the same time.  Nice evening.  

Saw Dine and Lucie on the shark with their new motor.  We exhanged photots

Bellum from Shark 5

Shark 5 from Bellum

Got an general call from the coast guard on 16 asking for assitance for a 19 foot boat anchored near Dixie Island with a dead battery.  In the end, they did not need any assistance so I anhcored outside the club near where I had lost my anchor.  Cooked my rice and  pork chop and a tomato.

The next moring, I motored back to the club, fixed my windex, and did the last Yoga class with Shiela.