CS34 Black Rose and Cobourg Rib Fest

We had breakfast on the boat, and basically vegged the entire day.
We did venture into town and did some shopping.
Rita booked a pedicure for 1pm.

I was on the boat listening on Channel 68 for Otto's boat to come in.

Their boat is 41ft, and I figured the only place they could put them is on the end of the pier that we were on.  Sure enough at around 2pm, the call came in, and they were assigned to the end of F dock.

Don, Judy, and I helped them dock Black Rose.
I introduced myself and Don/Jude, and let them getting settled in and registered.
Rita would not be that long.

When Rita got back we all went over and got the tour.

Black Rose is the most beautiful, well thought out, and best outfitted yacht I have ever been on.

She is a Gozzard 41, hull #3 built in 2003:

• beautiful lines
• standard mainsail with two reefs
• stack pack
• hard windshield dodger
• hard fibreglass bimini (new)
• cutter rig
• electric halyard winch (new)
• electric furler (new)
• self tacking inner furling jib
• teak toe rail 4" wide
• wide decks with gunnels that make you feel secure
• huge cockpit
• mainsail winch is on the cockpit table (no traveller)
• 25,000 lb displacement
• dingy with 15hp motor on davits
• liferaft
• EPRIB
• raised stainless arch to support dingy, radar, solar panels, and wind generator
• the list goes on and on

And then we went below; ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!

Otto and Corrine Bulk live in Dunville Ontario.  They are sailing Black Rose to Owago NY, where they are dropping thier mast, going down the Erie Canal, down the Hudson River, to Norfolk Virginia.  They come back home for 6 weeks, then are sailing in the Caribean 1500 to the BVIs in October.

Otto is the brother of Rita's sister Debbie's husband Hans.

Otto was having touble with his hot water heater when hooked up to shore power.  He went to see Martin at Port Whitby Marine, and he had the replacement thermostat and high temp sensor he needed.  However, Otto is not comfortable doing electrical work.

I jumped in the the lazerrette and took a look.  We had to go into town to the marine store to pickup some electrical connectors to fit on the high temp sensor.  So we all walked to Dean Marine, and bought two crimp connectors for 94 cents with tax.

The STOWAWAY

Notice how the winch handles and other hardware fit underneath the lazerette lid.

Everything in the locker was layed out nicely: water heater, two 12v fridge compressors, water maker, water pump, etc.  I asked Otto if he had a wiring diagram because we had a couple of extra wires.  He got it out and told me that the 110V feed to the water heater should be labelled "121"; sure enough it was!  The extra wires were there if you wanted to run the water heater off of 12v.

The Stowaway above decks

Don and Judy

Otto and Corrine



Checking out the rig!

Cutter Rig

Nice touch

Love the stainless dolphins!

Cobourg was having their annual ribfest this weekend, so the six of us walked over the Victoria Park and had some BBQ ribs, chicken, and corn.

Don and Rita corning it up for the camera

Rita and Otto

Everything was excellent.  Corrine said it was the best corn she has ever had.

After eating, I went and got a blooming onion: whole onion cut, dipped in batter, and deep fried.  YUMMY!

There was an excellent band playing the bandshell.