1990 Canadian Sailcraft CS34 Shoal Draft
Sail #8268

1982 Catalina 22 Fin Keel
Sail #10506

1994 MUMM 36 ACE
Sail # 29206

Saturday, September 25, 2021

CS34 MUMM36 ZAMBONI Out in a Blow

 After spending the night on Hanlan's Wall on Friday night:



We had a community breakfast with all WYC boats.

We loaded up Still Time with Dave, Mark, Peter, Bill, and Phil and headed over to National Yacht Club for a sail on ZAMBONI.

Here we are bringing ZAMBONI over to the wall by Still Time:



Where we met Michael, transferred some gear and the 7 of us went out for a sail.

It was blowing 20+ knots from the WSW with 5-6 ft waves, so we rigged a reefed main and #3.

We sailed closed hauled out into the lake and tacked toward Port Credit.

As we got closer to shore we noticed a storm cell approaching from the west, so we gybed, and hoisted our smallest chute and flew back to Toronto avoiding the nasty stuff.  We hit 14.1 knots surfing down a wave!   It started the rain just as we got to the dock.



Phil and Bill had smiles from ear to ear!

We flaked the main, and stuffed the wet #3 and spin down below.
We had a couple of beers below on Still Time while major rain and wind pounded the area.
After about half an hour, I motored back over the Hanlan's Wall:

Michael also joined us for the night.







  

Sorry no GPS track

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