CS34 Grounding

After moving the boat again to Trident Yacht Club for the summer, we were thoroughly enjoying all that the Thousand Islands has to offer.

This all changed on Saturday August 9, 2025.

We were on a ball overnight on the north side of Camelot Island.

We left the ball at 09:49am (start of track).

Our destination was Endymion Island just around the corner.

Conditions were light winds 6-8 knots.

Sunny and hot.

We ran aground just off Netley Island:

Here is the view from deep water:

We were travelling from left to right in this photo.

The private ROCKS warning buoy was about 50ft to our port.

No sails up, motoring at approximately 5.5 knots, to a dead stop.

Time was approximately 11am.

Here is the track from later when we took the photo:

The private ROCKS buoy was approximately on the lowest + symbol above. 

Four people on board:

• Bart (wheel)
• Rita (below by v-birth)
• Andrew (port cockpit)
• Janette (starboard cockpit)
• Shadow (dog)

No injuries.

I was thrown into the steering wheel and have some abrasions on my shins

Rita was thrown into the v-birth.

Andrew & Janette pushed forward into the blue fold up chairs leaning up against the bulkhead.

The dog was with Janette.

 

We were able to back off the rock.

 

Some of the floor boards had lifted (even though they were screwed down).

The companionway steps had come loose bending the fasteners.

 

After ensuring everyone was OK, and the boat was in safe water, I put Andrew on the wheel and went below to see if there was any internal damage and if we were sinking.

No water intrusion.

Moved the companionway steps (engine cover) back in place, and put the one floor board back down.

The impact had cracked the fiberglass structural grid in several places.

We decided to motor over to some friends who were anchored about 2 miles away.

They had snorkeling gear.

We dove several times to assess the damage.

Big impact crater on the front of the keel:

The keel was also separating at the rear of the keel:

We did not see any fiberglass hull damage on the bottom of the keel.

The impact forced the rear of the keel up, the hull flexed cracking the internal  fiberglass structure supporting the keel.

There are 13 keel bolts; don’t see any water coming in from them.

We motored over to Mulcaster Island and anchored for the night.

The following day (Sunday) we returned our guests to their car at Trident.

We anchored at Lindsay Island the next two nights with another boat from Whitby.

We contacted the insurance company on the Saturday, leaving a voice message.

They called back on Monday, we decided to head back to Whitby for repairs after filling in an online damage report.

The boat was motor sailed from Trident Yacht Club to Whitby Yacht Club (130 nautical miles).

We did the inside route stopping at Picton overnight, then at the west end of the Murray Canal.

Every couple of hours I would vacuum out the keep sump to see if the water intrusion had increased.   The sump would have about ¼” of water in the keel sump in 30 minutes.

Arrived at the Whitby Yacht Club on Friday at about 4:30pm.

Saturday, removed EVERYTHING from the inside of the boat.

Sunday, dopped the mast.

Monday, August 18, the boat was hauled out at Port Whitby at 10am

CS34 Still Time Update

Its been a while since I have posted here.

Lots of work has been done to the boat:

• Headsail restitched
• Injector pump rebuilt
• 100W flexible solar panel on bimini
• Rebuilt rudder ($3,000)
• New speed transducer ($250)
• New depth transducer ($250)
• New autopilot display ($400)
• New bottom ($6,000)
• Bottom sanded
• Epoxy filled 102 blisters
• 5 coats of interprotect 2000
• 2 coats of Micron CSC bottom paint
• All through hulls replaced
• New hull stripes ($500)
• New binnacle cover ($400)
• New below deck hydraulic linear drive ($1,000)
• New Raymarine ACU-200 autopilot brain ($1,400)
• New Seaward water heater ($1,200)

C22 Prep for Launch and Sale

Poor little Still Time: she has not be sailed much since before Covid.

I was planning on selling her last season, but I was too busy with the RBC Canadian Open, the Newport Bermuda, racing on ZAMBONI, and moving the 34 to Trident Yacht Club.

First step was to take the vinyl name stickers off with a heat gun:

Proceeded to wash/buff/wax the hull:

Even after several hits with polishing compound, you can still make out where the decals were. 

Got about half of the bottom painted before I ran out of steam at 7pm.

There's Still Time!

CS34 14 Days to Launch

Whitby launch is two weeks away.

The weather has been cold and rainy, so this is first chance I got to get the boat ready for 2023.

It was sunny and warm (over 20 degrees celsius).
I was going to tackle painting the bottom, but as I looked at the weather for the next 7 days, it was going to be cold and wet the entire time.

We have had a couple days of dry weather, so the cover was nice and dry, so I decided to get the cover off and into the truck.

I power washed the bottom, as I missed a couple of spots in the fall.

Proceeded to wash/polish/wax the hull.

Turned out pretty nice!

The frame will come down sometime next week.

CS34 Engine Hours and Fuel Consumption

Putting the boat to bed for 2022, I try to remember to record the engine hours each year.

Here are the engine hours when we got the boat in 2012:

637.8 hours

So that is an average of ~30 hours over 22 years for the previous owners.

Here are the engine hours after launch this year:

1046.2 hours

So that  is 508.4 hours in 10 years, an average of ~50 hours per year. 

Hour meter after haulout:

1211.3 hours

So we have put 65.1 hours on the motor this season.

We tried to sail as much as we could, but there were many windless days.
With the deliveries to/from Trident, we did a lot of motor sailing in light winds.
The trip back from Mimico was a motor all the way.

When at anchor, we would run the motor every couple of days for an hour to charge the house batteries.

The Yanmar 2GM20F diesel engine has been reliable.
It has not burned or leaked any oil.

Yesterday I filled the diesel tank:

Gauge showing full on fuel tank in starboard lazerette

Took 80L (qty 4 20L gerry cans).
That is about $200 of diesel @$2.21 per litre.

I did fill the tank this year at TrentPort marina for like $100 (40L).

So that is about 120L of diesel for the season.

So Still Time burns about 2L of diesel per hour.

The fuel tank is approximately 100L.

CS34 Cradle for Sale

Anybody need a 4 pad folding cradle?

CS34 Winter Cover

Another perfect day to be working on coving the boat!

Stopped at Princess Auto to get a package of zip ties to attach the frames to the toe rail.

Stopped at a gas station to get 20L of diesel.
Still Time's tank was down to 1/4 full. 
I always try to fill the fuel tank to avoid condensation putting water in the fuel.
Will need another two 20L cans to fill it.

Finished putting up the cover frame, and installed the cover:

Other tasks:

• dropped the anchor to the ground
• ran electrical chord for shore power
• cleaned the waterline scum with Barkeeper's Friend
• power washed a couple places I missed on the bottom
• put the boom under the cradle
• put the bimini frame under the cradle
• winterized the motor

Here you can see the repair from a partially deployed anchor a couple of seasons ago:

https://svstilltime.blogspot.com/2021/08/cs34-can-you-sail-with-anchor.html

https://svstilltime.blogspot.com/2022/04/cs34-anchor-ouch-repair.html

View of Still Time's cover from the pumpout dock:

Couple of tasks still to complete:

• fill diesel tank
• tie cover down to cradle
• remove food from cupboards
• empty fridge (drink the beer)
• drain hot water tank
• winterize water system
• winterize head
• winterize washdown pump
• charge and isolate house batteries