Sailing Vessel Still Time: August 2022

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

CS34 Squally Drive to Trident

Back home to do some domestic things!

We did manage to see the Professors of Funk in downtown Oshawa:

KARS on KING is always a fun event.
Most of the downtown is shutdown with classic cars.
My mom actually had one of these:

1982 Buick Regal

Also had a great time at my daughter's house party:

Live band "The Doozies"

MEGA JENGA

...and a trip to Reptilia in Whitby with grand daughter:

Time to get back to "the cottage".

There was a squall watch notification on my phone.

Driving past Cobourg on the 401, we could see the cumulous clouds building:

Major dumps of rain just north of us:

Then we got hit with the rain. Had to slow down to 20km/h as the windshield wipers could not keep up!

It was weird, this dump of rain, and blue skies just south of us:

Pretty wild! Took us an extra half hour to get there.

Winds were howling 25+ knots from the west:

I checked on all the boats on our dock, as fenders and lines were being stressed in the blow:

We were treated to a sunset/moonset:

Neat shot of the boats in the Trident basin:

To the south of us there was sheet lightning:

We watched it from the stern of Still Time for several hours.

Saturday, August 20, 2022

CS34 Navy Islands back to Trident

Up a little after 7am, Rita was up first:

Notice how the boat had swung 180 degrees:

We were now is 6.5 ft of water; no problem!

Off to Mulcaster for Shadow:

We went for a long dingy ride around Downie Island.

...and back to Still Time:

Notice how the anchor ball showing that the anchor is underneath the stern.
The anchor chain was holding the boat on the bottom.

The anchor and chain was buried in the weeds on the bottom.

We did some more paddle boarding and swimming:

After lunch, we hoisted the main before hoisting anchor.

We said hello to Shawn and Nancy on their new georgeous Jeanneau 410 called Stealing Summer:

Notice the StarLink dish on the bow!

We motored sailed North to Ivy Lea club, before heading down the main channel to Endymion and Camelot Islands.

As we got closer to the US border, we notice just ton of motor boat traffic. Big cruisers, bow riders, cabin cruisers, cigarette boats, and SeaDoos. Noisy and lots of wake!

The 8-10 knots of breeze was pretty much on the nose, so we just motor sailed with the main.

How foolish is this:

The anchorages and mooring balls off Endymion and Camelot we jammed full of boats and people.

The weather was forecasted to turn with lots of rain and risk of thunderstorms overnight.

We decided to head back to home base Trident.

Trip Odometer: 16.3 miles
Trip Start: 13:32
Trip End: 04:52
Trip Duration: 03:20:00
Average Speed: 4.9 knots

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Friday, August 19, 2022

CS34 Lindsay Island to Collier Island

We were up before 8am, and the first order of business is to take Shadow for some morning relief on MacDonald Island.

Prescott Coastguard Radio, this is...

You can see the anchor ball marking the location of Still Time's anchor:

A little after 10am, The Beckoning pulled anchor.

They are picking up some family members in Gananoque and heading to the Navy Islands.

We left shortly after, but the winds were very light (less than 4 knots from the south), so it was a motor.

Beautiful classic wooden yacht going west:

Passing Gananoque:

Passing cruise ships in the narrows just east of Gananoque:

We anchored off Collier Island part of the Navy Islands:

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We anchored in 9ft of water. Winds were supposed to swing from SW to the SE over night, so we had to be aware of the depth after this swing.

Its funny, you pull in to an anchorage with like two dozen boats.
I knew over half dozen of them:

Tom/Kim on Manana from PEYC (previously Whitby)
Jim/Katherine on Kia Ora from PEYC (previously Whitby)
Kieth/Heidi on Courageous from PEYC (previously Whitby)
John/ on JPSea from Trident (previously Whitby)
Shawn/Nancy on Steeling Summer from National (previously Whitby)
Walter/Colleen on The Beckoning from Whitby