Frostbite One

Chris gave me a lift to the boat.  Maude met us aboard and we departed at 8:50 under headsail to the race area.

I helmed the first race, Maude handled the main and Chris did the winches.  Chris helmed the second and third race.

The headsail had a rip on the leach line cover.  After the first race, the leach line got caught in the spreader and we were forced to take down the headsail and cut the leach line.  We started the second race very late.

We came back in the cold and warmed up with a little rum.  Nobody was interested in the cold beer.

The first race we came in 10th and 11th for the second and third race.

Pas de Deux avec Maud

Audrey was not available so I asked Maud to race the Pas de Deux.  She eagerly accepted. It looked cold on race morning, but she was still keen.

I drove to the club dropping by Maxi to pick up my bike that was left there on Wednesday.

We left the club with the headsail and sailed to the race area.  Chaos was registered, but she did not come out.  Nobody from the Royal came out.

Good start at 9 minutes 9 seconds after the scratch boat.  We sailed okay but came out 23 out of 28 boats.  It wasn't so cold.  Docked at PCYC and had their famous chili.  Bill came by and sat with us.  Frank Ferrara came by and chatted.  We talked about running out of gas and aviation and it turns out that Frank took ground school with me (Teacher was Huguette) and he remembers me giving him a drive from the airport to the Metro in my old Volkswagon with the fuel management system back around 1981!  Last week we met Todd Riley from WHS.  Who's next?

We left PCYC about 5 and motored back to the club and had a glass of wine and headed back home.

Maude accepted coming again tomorrow for Frostbite 1.

Single handed windless Wednesday

I left the office at 3 to do some sailing.  It was windless and suppose to pick up about six.  Biked to the club. Thursday was supposed to be cold, very windy, and rainy.

Motored past the gut, put out the sail, drifted, pulled in the sail, drifted towards gut, motored past the church, put up the sail, did not work, furled sail.  Got cold, put layers of clothing including Mustang.  It worked.  Drifted some more, too cold to cook on the water, winds picked up, pulled the jib and nice sail back to the club.  Had a scotch, burger, and beer.  Chatted with Veronica and Norm.

Biked to Duffy's to meet up with Shana and GiGi but they could not get there because they were paving the service road.  I biked to Dorval Ave and took the 211 home, leaving the bike at Maxi's.

A quiet day.

Rum Runner Race on d'ad-lib

William called out for crew for the Rum Race at PCYC so I took him up on it.

The crew consisted of Bill, Gaby,  Deirdre, me and Todd who has not sailed for 47 years and went to WHS with me in grade 7 and 8.  Blast from the past.

My tasks were mainsheet.  The race started late because there was a power failure, delaying the launching of dry boats.

We came in fourth but we won the other bottle of rum as part of the lucky draw.

Our Captain

After the partying, I went back to the club.  Was not successfully retrieving my dingy anchor.

Took a nap and went to Bombay Palace Restaurant at 5PM.  Sunday I went to the club to help Jimmy fuel up, pump out and remove the sails.  Too cold to sail. 
Went to PCYC AQVA meeting and then loaded up the car with stuff to take from club to St. Amboise.

Friday sailing on Redline and Pasta night

Nice sailing in light winds.  Pasta Night apres.

White Sail Results 2018

We missed 12 races and still came in 3rd.

GNS Fall 3 - Final race

Norm and Chris joined me for the last Fall GNS race in long pant weather.


Winds were oscillating slowly but consistently.

We came in 4 out of 7 and 6 out of 8. Allan helmed both races.

Near contact with a Shark at windward mark on the second race.  His bow on our starboard aft corner.

Laser 28 championships were happening at the south side of the lake.

We came back to the harbour very slowly as the mercury rose.