Friday Fun race with Scott

I stumbled to find crew for Friday.  Scott was confirmed and I was trying to find a crew with the calibre to race with Scott.  In the end, it was just Scott and me.

I spent the day at the club sewing - Gerald's cover and various things on my sewing list.  Gerald's cover had two ripped zippers and he repaired it with duck tape that left a lot of glue which fouled up the Sailrite.

sew baby sew

Had a great race with Scott with the new 135.  We missed the start signals but snuck in on good time.

Thursday race Scott, Emma and Sylvie

Rod from Obsessive Scientist and Scott and I changed the 155 to 135.

Sylvie stayed on the foredeck as I helmed and Emma and Scott handled the sheets.

As always, Scott was an amazing sailor.

Sailing with Mary

Robyn was supposed to sail with me with her son, I had tried to change it to Thursday to accommodate Maria, but Robyn did not respond, then on Wednesday, she scheduled something with her daughter.  

I invited Mary out and it worked well.  Mary did sail with her parents in Senneville, Creg Quay and Lake Champlain, on a Mirage 32, but she obviously never participated in the sailing.

I biked to Esposito to pick up some salad and the office to pick up  my mail and then the club We departed at noon, sailing through the Allan Hill bay to Baie d'urfe and around, leaving Mary off at PCYC 

I sailed around in light winds, eventually anchoring in Grand Anse.

The next morning, I sailed back to the club, slowly.

No Tuesday race for Bellum

The day looked a little wet, with some showers coming in.

I was catching up on office work. Maud was tired from driving back from Gaspe, Sylvie had too much work to do.  Brian invited me, but there was not enough time to get to the club and I still had "stuff" to catch up on.

Ryan reports it was a nice sail, a little rain

SH July 4

I lounged around Sunday evening after the Duggan Cup weekend.  Peter brought me some calamari for my supper, with red wine.

On Monday, after tidying up the boat, I finalized the Duggan results and fixed Patrick's portable VHF.  

Sylvie was very happy with the VHF and the fact that she won the Duggan Cup.

At 11, I set sail beating it to Baie'd Urfie and back,  Canadian Empress passed us in the seaway. 

I returned to the club at 14h30.

Reorganized some locker stuff and rode to Mom for supper.

Tuesday, the crew was too busy with work or tired and there was not much wind and some light showers, so we did not race.

Awesome Duggan Cup

Participants in the Duggan cup were Tara II, Bete Noir and Slow Dancer 2.

Sylvie accompanied me to race.  

We sailed very nicely tacking to the gut and had some depth issues at the south end of the lake giving us shallow indications where it should have been clear.  We made it through the windmill point channel and relaxed as we casually snacked on veggies and dip while we were on autopilot.  Then we had a depth alarm and quickly tacked to avoid a one-foot shallow area near the seaway.  whew!

Got to Pointe aux Cascade and rafted up with Slow Dancer and Tara II.  We were entertained by a couple of boats that had lots of floating toys that dragged their anchor and drift towards Tara II.  There were lots of skimpy-clad bikinis on board and it was quite a mess that she had to put away in order to untangle and depart. The skipper was nervous and obviously not familiar with the vessel.

Bete Noir showed up much later as she decided to do a Sail Week race while on her way to Soulanges.  

After a BBQ, Bete Noir and Bellum anchored separately as Tara and Slow Dancer stayed rafted up.

The race started reasonably for the four boats.  Winds were a strong 12 to 18 knots mostly in a run.  We ran interference with Nukumi leaving Beauharnois.  Got 5 horns and a long one.  I was in the channel.  Bete Noir was on the other side of the channel and crossed in front of the ship.  She missed AS 38, went towards the windmill channel and returned to make AD 38.  In the meantime, Slow Dancer fouled Tara II and Bellum fouled Slow Dancer at great risk of collision as Slow Dancer had backed her jib as did Bellum.  Bellum started her motor and got out of there.  

Later Slow Dancer started her engine to make it through the windmill point channel.  Both boats furled their genoas until we got through the channel, we turn off our motors.  Bellum had abandoned the race but did the course for fun and we took photos. Slow Dancer seemed to continue to race.   

We finished and had drinks aboard Bellum.

Brian reported losing two hats.  Sylvie and I both lost our Tilleys and recovered them. not a good weekend for hats.

FFR with Darla and Mary H

Darla bought groceries and beer.  Mary bought some veggie snacks and dip.

We set sail for the first pursuit race of the season with a planned raft up at the sandbars using a course that Luc and I set up on Thursday.  The winds were very light. The race lasted over two hours.

Antanzas, Earendil, Regalia and Bellum came to race.  Peter from Don't Panic showed up on their new Tanzer 26 but did not race. Antanzas first, Earendil second Bellum third and ReGalia abandoned.

Darla and Mary were relatively inexperienced in racing. 

Since no one was rafting up, we decided to anchor close to Pointe-Claire.  Nice fireworks.  After the fireworks, we BBQ the pork chops and feated. Came back to the club at half past midnight. 

A long day of racing. Lasted 2 1/2 hours.