ACE Toronto Round the Island Race

Worked on the CS34 in the morning with Rita and I headed to National for the annual Round Toronto Island Race.  Being the holiday Monday, I was concerned about traffic, but it was light, and I basically did the speed limit all the way to National; THAT NEVER HAPPENS.

We quickly hooked up the refurbished mast instruments and shoved off.

The B&G processors for some reason would not come on while the motor was going (uh oh).
They started working when the motor was off.

We could not figure out why the B&G display at the chart table the new B&G mast head displays would not work.  The one at the chart table would not even power on, and the mast head units powered on, but were not getting data.

Need a work party to clean up the wiring.

On the boat

• me (bow)
• Kris (driver)
• Jenny (runners)
• Mike (runners)
• Michael (pit)
• Peter (main)
• Christine (jib)
• Barb (jib)

Winds were 6-10 knots from the SE, we had a great day on the water.  The forecast was for rain and it held off, and the sun even came out.

We had a great race, but can't keep up downwind in light airs to the boats that beat us.  Our new oversized spinnaker should help, but we didn't have the new oversized pole to fly her.

We got pretty good at gybing the spinnaker on the downwind leg.

We finish 3rd of about 20 boats in the race

Trip Odometer: 12.00 miles
Moving Average: 5.1 knots
Moving Time: 02:30:00

GPS batteries died half way through the race. so this is a guestimate.

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2015/20150518.kmz