Sunday and Monday sailing

After Jimmy and Tilda left, we got up the next day and had breakfast of sausage and eggs.

We set sail as we left the club.  Nice day.  We did several rounds of the lake and about 5, we anchored at Grand Anse.

We had chicken and wine and cauliflower on the BBQ.  The aluminium foil we had turned funny and we had thrown it out.

Nice nite with a gift from James.

Squall on Lake St. Louis

The next day we stayed anchored.  We took an afternoon nap and then noticed that the boat was rotating around the anchor.

Daniele looked out the hatch and we had rotated 180 degrees and there were ominous clouds ahead.

We got up and evaluated the situation.  We turned on the VHF and there was a call for a boat near the RSTLYC entrance.  Then there was a mayday relay for a platoon boat near Dorval Island.

Apparently, there was a squall on the lake.

Missed it by that much

The sky was much better where we were.

Fine in Ile Perrot

Squall in Pointe Claire

After the weather cleared up, we set sail for some place closer.  We ended up motoring to the sandbars and anchoring there.

Supper was pork chops that had been frozen aboard two weeks earlier.  Not bad.  Awesome Sunset

Tuesday morning, we motored back to the club, washed down the deck and headed back to work at 11AM.

Fun day with Tilda, Jimmy and Lisange

I got up early to get some groceries.

Jimmy and Tilda came to the club and waited for us at the lawn, wondering if we were going to take one boat or two.

We all went out on Bellum.  Winds were very light.  We motored to the gut and sailed around to Beaconsfield and then back when the wind died. We snacked on the way back.

Then we anchored at the sandbars and had a lazy day with Zig Zag and Fugu and their swan, flamingo and dinosaur.

We sailed to the gut and then motored in the dark through the channel.  Not as easy as one would think.

Friday Fun Race Nigel and Lilian

A great race for Bellum with Lilian on the helm and Nigel coaching

Although we were second to last, our time was very good.  Just the funny handicaps hurt us.

Quck sail with Daniele

I got up and tried to work at the club.  I tidy up the car and locker a bit.

I tried to help Rob fix a repeater to help Hynes wifi.

Daniele decided to come sailing before picking up MF and Alain from London.

We emptied the sail locker and I tightened the shaft packing and throttle cable friction. There was over 6 liters of water in the bilge in two hours of motoring.

After tightening the packing I took some thermal pictures of the shaft.  No warm spots

We sailed on just the jib to Baie d'urfie and back to the club.  About half way between the gut and the club it started to drizzle and we motored back to the dock.

Daniele and I rinsed down the boat and she went to the airport and I drove to the office to write this blog.

nice easy sail with just the jib

Wednesday race on Naomi

Jimmy had not taken his boat out this year.

We met at the club at 2, installed the BBQ and left.  We sailed to Baie'd Urfie and back.  We saw RC about 5 and sailed around until the race started.  It turned out we were late but then we realized that there were 3 starts.  We did a port start with Talisman and Tara II.going starboard.

It seemed that we were doing very well but eventually we could not keep our lead and came in third.

Supper at the club and I slept over, since my apartment was flooded.

Briditte and Max

We got up at Alan Point and motored back to the club for showers and breakfast.

Daniele did the groceries.

Bridgitte and Max arrived about 11:30.  We reviewed safety and motored out to the gut and put up the sails.  Winds were light and time was limited since I had an AQVA meeting at 5PM.

We sailed, Max helmed for about an hour before the winds died.  We sailed to the sand bars and swam and had snacks of vegies, pate and cheese.

Chaos anchored near by.  David was at the meeting with me at 5.  So when Chaos leaves, we would probably leave.  He left about 4.

We left about 4:15.  Winds picked up.  We docked and I left for the meeting as Audrey and Jimmy came in to dock.

Later I heard Briditt was a little sea sick.

Duggan CUP NOT

We slept in.  We did not know anybody went to the race.

I met Stephan at the lawn and he had gone out to Dowkers to make sure nobody was there.

We had breakfast aboard and then we sailed to Baie d'urfie and back to anchor outside Alan Hill.

The winds were light so we tried out the spinnaker on a broad / beam reach.  Not bad.

We had the hamburgers and went to bed.