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.
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.
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