After a cool week at Tupper Lake and at home, the forecast was for a one-week heatwave, so I decided to spend the week on the lake.
I called up Cindy, whom I had not seen in years, and we went to the club on Friday evening for the Saturday FFR with Scarlet and her BFF, who was in town for a few days.
I asked Scarlet for confirmation for FFR, and she was too busy, so we cancelled.
Cindy and I drove to the club and had supper there. And we played pool.
Saturday was cool, wet and windy, so the FFR race was cancelled.
So on Saturday morning, Cindy and I did Yoga with Sheila, and we took an afternoon nap. About 5PM, it cleared up, and we sailed out to the sandbar and anchored there.
Sunday morning was nice, so we decided to go to St. Anne's. We had ice cream and then set sail for Soulanges to see the Aurora Borealis peaking on Monday night. We spent two nights doing nothing. Unfortunately, we did not have a dinghy with us, so we could not visit the shore. The sky was clear both nights, but we saw nothing in the sky.
We had the following malfunctions on BELLUM.
The fridge thermostat wire broke, and I jury-rigged it to run manually.
The head was full, and the water tank went empty. We had never intended to be out for so long.
Cindy opened the curtains, which had not been opened for years, to discover there was a lot of black mould on the inside window edging.
On Tuesday morning, we departed for the club, going through the Seaway by motor and taking the shortcut - bypassing the zigzag channel.
Cindy showered as I repaired the radar reflector, filled the water tank and did a pump-out.
We were heading for Lachine's Quai 34, one of Cindy's favourite spots. We went for a walk, did some shopping and dodged some scattered showers. I went out later to find supper. I got a rotisserie chicken from Metro.
On Wednesday, Cindy went for a walk and got some Timmy's. About noon, she decided to head home by BMW. I motored back to the club, cleaned the mould on the portlights, did some laundry, and tidied up the boat.
I cleaned the windows and washed the curtains.
I helped Gerald take his mast down in preparation for his trip to the Bahamas.
I brought the Niskie bike back home in the Honda.
We had a great spontaneous week of six nights, with no wind, warm weather and good company.
Meals were fish and chips, strudel, sausages, pork tenderloin, ribs, confit de canard, chicken and ramean. Mostly emergency rations.
Later in the week, I picked up a new NTC temperature probe for the fridge and fixed the thermostat.
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