Stitch with Christine

I set up a let's-go-sailing group on Stitch, and only Christine registered.  We departed at 1PM and I tacked up the channel through the gut to Grand Anse and ran back. Before the gut, we decided to return to the club at 4, and we made it back to the club at about 5

It was a lot of fun.  Great winds.  Andre went out an hour earlier and decided it was too rough.  Glad we did.  Had a great time -  just the two of us.

Friday Fun Race at PCYC

 At noonish, I set sail to PCYC.  The winds were strong, and I had to motor the final 2 minutes to the gut.

I sailed around for a while, and at 3PM, I docked at PCYC.  The docking was difficult and took 3 attempts. to successfully dock. Alex helped tie the last line.  I lingered around the club, went to Wild Willies for Praline and Cream.  

John showed up, then Calyso and Alex went to the Royal.  The race was cancelled, and we waited for Alex and went out for a nice sail.  

Eventually, we were close to the Gut, and I decided it was easier to dock at the club and drive everyone back to PCYC.  John went home, and Calipso, Alex and I went to Ye Old Orchard for supper.

It was nice sailing.

Thursday race - Squall

On Canada Day, I unloaded the car at St. Amboise and went to the rental increase protest in the East End. I had my hot dogs, and the rain started, and I took the BMW back to my car near Atwater, did some groceries at Aubut and drove to the club.  

The weather looked bad, so I cancelled the Meet-up.  During a calm about 5PM, I took down the 155 and Mark E helped me fold it.

On Tuesday, I biked to RB Packing and Seal to  pick up O-ring to fix the outboard tank gas cap. On Wednesday, I fixed the gas cap (hopfully).

The day was rainy, and I pan-fried hot Italian sausages with Uncle Ben's prepared rice.

Thursday morning, I fixed the dock wheel. 

Karyne invited me sailing on her boat, so we took Voilavoile out to Baie d'Urfe and back to the club.  Karyn handled the boat very well.

Maud and Scarlett showed up early, so we sailed to the race area going around the lighthouse, and we made it to the race area in the almost sametime as Espresso, Espresso-X, and Shelby's boat. The weather and forecast looked great. We discussed how to look for a squall - rolling clouds 

The race started very late.  We were about 25 seconds late for the start, worried about barging Espresso.  About 30 seconds before the start, I determined we were not in a barging situation, but Scarlett hesitated to move towards the line.  We were fine, and the other boat was much closer to the RC boat.

At the windward mark, we were fairly close to the fleet, but thereafter, we fell behind.

The squall was building up. RC was making VHF broadcasts that were difficult to understand.  Sounded like a strong Pakistani accent.  I asked for a repeat, and it was not decipherable.  At the leeward mark, we decided to abandon the race.  We ran back to the club.  I saw winds peak at 27 knots, which is not too bad.  But the rain drenched us.  The winds calmed down in the harbour, and we had a good docking.  We were all wet, trying to dry up in the cabin while drinking some well-earned beer.

We had supper at the club and discussed the crew bank and the AQVA supper.