CS34 2020 East Cruise Day 01 - Cobourg

We had been planning to spend much of August cruising the 1000 Islands, but we has a family wedding on Aug 14, spent the weekend getting the boat ready.

• Food
• Booze
• Clothes
• Fuel/oil/coolant
  
• Propane
• dinghy
• fill water tanks
• extra drinking water jugs
• organize below

Here is the back of the truck loaded with provisions:

Brought the boat over for a pumpout. 

It was much easier to load the boat with provisions at the pump out dock (rather than lugging them down the length of the dock).

As I was bringing the boat to the pumpout dock at my usual 2 knots speed to keep steerage, I went to put the boat in reverse to stop it, and the motor made all kinds of noise, and no reverse thrust.  I jumped off the and stopped it with a spring line before it hit the commodore's boat!

DOH

Came within 6 inches of hitting the boat shown above.

There have been problems with the power on our dock, and the batteries were a little low (12.2V).
So what happened here is the high output 120amp alternator had kicked in just as I was shifting into reverse!  The motor was bogged down putting close to 100amps into the batteries!

87amps!

NOTE TO SELF:

When coming into the dock with low batteries, be sure to turn the ignition off so the alternator doesn't kick in at inopportune times.  The regulator has a 5 minute delay before asking the alternator to give as many electrons as the batteries will take.

We got underway just before noon.

See you later Whitby

Motored just past Thickson's Point

Winds were 12-16 knots from the SW, so reefed main and 110 jib got the boat going almost 7 knots with no motor.

Pretty comfortable

KEWL dog

The forecast called for scattered thunderstorms, so we were on the lookout for cells heading our way.

This is just past Courtice Road

Here you can see the storm on shore.

Rigged up a gybe preventor:

Winds were diminishing, and just past Darlington Nuclear Plant we furled in the jib and motor sailed as fast as we could to outrun the storm cells.

The wind swung to the NE and diminished to 5 knots (close reach).

We got majorly rained on:

We past Peter Rock:

Reminds me of one of our first sails on Still Time:

https://svstilltime.blogspot.com/2012/05/cs34-shakedown-cruise-to-cobourg.html

Then on into Cobourg Harbour were we turned and dropped the main.

You can see where we dropped the main

We were dock by 17:45 in slip G189

On our dock were some friends from WYC who have moved their boats to Cobourg:

Harvey and Sherry Lynn
Hunter 38

Yvan and Kim
Catalina 320

Trip Odometer: 35.73 miles
Avg Speed: 6.2 knots
Max Speed: 9.8 knots
Moving Time: 05:48

After we got checked in and made some diner, we spent over an hour cleaning the decks.

She was filthy! 

We had a visit from old friend Oleh Perun; was nice catching up with him.

Night Night