Tupper Lake Boathouse

 

Voilavie

We took Karyne's new boat out for her first FFR race.  She wanted to go out on Saturday, but I was not available.

John from Adult Sailing and a friend of Karyne a 420 sailor from PCYC joined us.

Lousy start, going the wrong way and not hearing the radio at the start.  We were not the only boat that did that.

A nice evening.  I went back to the boat and finished last night's pizza and had a Glenfiddich aboard Fugu.

The White Gala

 

A fun evening in white

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Voilavie

I got up early to fix Therapy's No 2 head sail and Voilavie's sail cover.

I was supposed to fix Karyne's sail cover, but she convinced me to go sailing.  Nice sail, uneventful.  

Later I sewed her main sail cover and made some replacement boat blanket protection for the furler base and pulpuit.  And a new BBQ cover for the Magma Kettle.

Then went to Jason's to make new handrails for the BELLUM deck.  They look great.  5 1/2 hours

Dropped them off at the club and gave V a lift home.

Mast Up, Sails Up, Power Point

I came to the club to prepare and raise the mast on Bellum.  Claude's boat was at the sheer legs.  Dave and Luc moved it.  

Present were Chris, Andrey, Jason and me.  Erika was roaming around and taking pictures of us.

Fugu came in first to reinstall the lower shrouds, and he fell into the water while trying to get off Fugu.  Lost an expensive pair of glasses ... and a bit of pride.

We got the shoulds installed and then proceeded to put up BELLUM's mast.  Very successful.

I spent the night aboard, and the next morning I single-handedly installed the boom and sails.  It was very tiring.

Then I presented my trip to the Bahamas to about 60 club members.

Sept aboard and at 6:30, I biked home.  I was tired, and it was going to get windy.

Bellum wash and inspection. New standing rigging, raced SeaScanII and initial sail on FUGU

On Tuesday at 12:30, Bellum was hauled out for bottom washing and inspection.  

Shipwright was invited to look at her, but never responded.  

I moved some sails and sewing stuff to the Redline locker to make space for my stuff.  

Picked up Explorer Charts from Mark O.

Bellum's bottom was relatively clean, considering she had been in the water for 440 days since May 4th

I also used Toilet Bowl cleaner to clean the ICW Mastashe.  Worked very well.  Probably removed some of the wax.

The anode was changed to Magnesium.

I slept aboard Zig-Zag and relaunched on Wednesday morning.

There was a heatwave in Montreal.  On Wednesday afternoon, I spent time at the pool and then had a burger and Oatmeal stout with Sylvie and grand grandkids at the pool.

Afterwards, I installed the new standing rigging on the mast and went for a drink with Sylvie, which was cut short due to an infestation of mosquitoes.

Helped Fugu raise her mast afterwards

Thursday, I worked on the rigging turnbuckles on the deck.  I was not happy with the turnbuckles and ordered 4 new ones from EB Spar.  I would like to install the mast on Thursday or Friday, so I drove to Hudson to pick up the turnbuckles.

But Shipwright was not ready to install the bow plate until Monday.  They had not replied to my previous emails and one phone message.  The drive back was very wet, and if I had known the bow plate wouldn't be installed on Monday, I would have preferred to ride to Hudson on the weekend by bicycle.

I was test-fitting the new turnbuckles when Chris came by and told me that I should install the turnbuckles unthreaded so that both sides would be equal when I install the mast.  I was fumbling with the locking ring on the toggle, and he said I needed to flip the ring to the other side so the locking side of the ring could go through the hole.  Captain Obvious is so obnoxious when he states the obvious.  I wished him a happy anniversary, but he hadn't realized it was his wedding anniversary!  I later saw Erika at the clubhouse alone.  I reminded Chris that she was not allowed in the clubhouse alone.  He said she was 19, thinking that she was at the bar.  I had to remind him that, as an adult, she was no longer considered a family member of the club.  ZING!

I later had drinks with Rick and Lise as they had dinner.

Friday, I had to grind one of the toggles to fit the starboard chain plate.  

I biked out to Leslie ot have an "urgent" meeting about NB.

Later, I raced on Seacan II with Sven, Michel and two others.  We came in third.  The boat rigging worked very well.

Saturday was a major cleaning and reorganizing day for BELLUM and the locker.  I fixed the holding tank monitor alarm system.

I was going to go home and help Jason raise her jib.  He had been reinstalling the boom, sails, and bimini after changing the rigging to Dyneema.  Jason decided to take Fugu for her first run.  Mike and I weren't doing anything, so we took her out and tacked and jibed her in 10 knots of wind, and all checked out.

I drove home for my second BBQ on the balcony.

Fugu Mast

EB Spar