First sail 2015

Norm and Chris and I were going to race Wednesday, but the fleet did not go out due to strong winds.  The Lasers went out.

I came to the club early to finish the washdown pump installation.  There were problems with the water intake nipple. 

Since the fleet was not going out, we went to boathouse to get some fittings.  The fittings did not fit.  Norm had a fitting that fitted. 

Chris and I wanted to go out and Norm was against the idea.

On our way out of the harbour, we noticed Norm's boat had the forward hatch open.  Had been opened since launch.

Norm took the helm, we motored to the gut, buoys were missing, including the gut.  Put up the reefed main and full new genoa.  Nice tack to Baie-D’Urfé and ran back to the club in time for last calls.

New sail, new instruments worked great.

Had supper and drained and cleaned the forward locker.

Nice to be finally out sailing.

Prize Giving Shark with Audrey

3rd place Frostbite PHRF

Major upgrades to Bellum

Saturday October 25, we took down the mast for major upgrades including



Washed all lines

installed new halyards, swapped red jib halard to become spinnaker halyard
Spinnaker halyard was shortened to become pole up

Extend back stay line, Updated Backstay adjuster blocks to harken blocks 308

Replace all boom lines

Installed Harken Mark IV Furler and SCHAEFER Halyard restrainer


Installed Lazy Jacks

Replaced Compass Cover Screw

Straightened anchor light

Replace mast halyard, electrical wires and coax and plugs

New antenna - problems - old was loose mast, new bad solder connection, short connector, used old connector

New wind instrument - Raymarine Mast Head Unit

mast top - tapped 10-32 instead of metric thread which was stripped.

reversed pole car up / down

Fixed mast head cover - new 10-32 screw

Put the mast back up Sunday, November 2 in cold weather.

Thanks very much for your help, James, Bill, Pierre and Armelle, Keith, Daniele and especially Norm for his relentlessness assistance in planning and installing the furler, PL259, demasting, masting and so much more.

Nice October Friday, no crew

Its a nice day... no crew

Tuesday with Chris

Nice warm October, 24 degrees.  Good winds.

Chris and I met at the club and we went out in about 10 knots of Southerly winds.

Nice sail to Dowkers and back.  Left about 4, back about 7. 

Installed the Actisense to interface the Standard Horizon AIS data to the Raymarine network.  The GPS sentences came through, but the AIS sentences did not come through.

Supper  at Ye Old Orchard.

Pas de deux

Daniele and I did one of our favorite races, the Pas de deux hosted by PCYC

Therapy and Chaos and Bellum represented the club.

We left the house late.  Highway 20 was closed for construction near the 20.  Had to drive to Cote St. Luc and back down.  Got to the club and raced to the boat and set off to the course.  Saw Therapy just after the GUT with motor problems.  Turned around and offered to tow her.  She declined. She was fine.

We waited about 20 minutes for the wind.

The course was

31(start gate)-33(P)-42(S)-44(S)-32(finish)

We thought we were too early for the start, gybed and we ended up quite late for the start.

Winds were light.  Later the wind was very shift (shitty).  We got to 33 and 42, but everybody had problems finding 44.  And the winds were so shifty, it was hard deciding when to tack. Sometimes the winds would bring you to the mark when you were 90 degrees off the mark.  Interesting.  It lasted 3 1/2 hours.

Got back to the club and Daniele raced to Linda's father's funeral while I changed the engine and transmission oil.  Forgot about the oil filter.

Shark Sailing

Only Dissidence needed crew... I was walking to Kelly's boat when Audrey asked if I could crew with them.  Oh well, never raced a shark so here we go..

3rd place Frostbite PHRF