I made the usual french toast and bacon breakfast for the four boats.
Shortly after 10am, we loaded up Still Time with Mark, Peter, and Mike and headed over to National for another Ahmen race on ZAMBONI. Kris and Dave met us and we went out and did the race with 5 of us.
Shortly after returning to the dock around 3pm: Mark, Peter, and I headed home back to Whitby on Still Time, while Michael and Kris cleaned up ZAMBONI.
We motored through Toronto harbour and out through the eastern gap.
We turned the corner to Whitby and hoisted the spinnaker sans main turning the motor off making 4-5 knots of boat speed.
Winds were 9-10 knots from the west almost dead downwind. After about five minutes, we hoisted the full main and sailed under autopilot wing on wing almost Pickering. Set the autopilot to sail at 170 degrees to the wind to avoid an accidental gybe.
Winds swung to the NW, so we gybed the spinnaker and sailed her conventionally all the way to Whitby Harbour keeping our speed over 6 knots the entire way.
Hooking up the sheet, we attached a pair of Mark's underwear for some extra speed:
We covered the 25 miles from Toronto to Whitby in 5 hours completely under autopilot.
We doused the spinnaker about 1/4 mile from the harbour entrance.
It was an intense and fun 4 days of hard sailing.
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