CS34 Motor with Commodore Berry

The Whitby Yacht Club sailpast is next weekend.  As Fleet Captain, I have to organize a sail past in which we get as many boats on the water as we can to go single file behind me the Fleet Captain, to pass the anchored Commodore's yacht.  In previous years we had it out by the race course.  This year we wanted to move it closer to shore so the public and members who could not get out on the water could see the spectacle.

WYC has its first weekend race on Sunday.  The two handed race is a medium distance race and usually runs from the race course to the Ajax weather buoy and back (12 miles).  I wanted to make sure the mark was there and that it is at its same co-ordinates as last year.

No wind, so John and I set out and looked at depths near shore by the clubhouse.  I think we have figured it out.

The track we took above, we have over 10ft of depth.

We then motored out to the Ajax weather buoy, which is about 6 miles SW of Whitby.  I got the chance to check out the new autopilot in goto waypoint mode.  It took us right to the buoy.

The buoy was there, but has shifted 0.3 miles to the SW.  Not that much, but might make a difference in fog.



Ajax Buoy is where it was last year
001 is where it is now

Nice night on the water, but cold.

The boat motored well; no issues.

Trip Odometer: 12.50 miles
Moving Average: 5.6 knots
Moving Time: 02:13:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2014/20140529.kmz

C22 Whitby Single Handed NOT

Race called before we left the dock because there wasn't ANY wind.

We would have had four boats.

So I added a decal to my car:

C22 WYC Race Night NOT

Warm, sunny, but windless.

Race called after motoring around for half an hour with less than 2 knots of wind.

Trip Odometer: 4.59 miles
Moving Average: 2.9 knots (mostly under motor)
Moving Time: 01:33:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2014/20140528.kmz

Cunningham

I am teaching my daughter Melissa all the sailing terms when we are out racing on Wednesday nights.

Tonight I showed her the Cunningham.

To which John replied "isn't that clever lunch meat"?

No John:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_(sailing)

But it is referred to as a "Smart Pig"

Port Credit Spring In Water Boat Show

We attended Kevin and Jan Williams daughter Maegan's wedding in the morning, and had several hours to kill between the ceremony and the reception.  What a better way to spend a couple of hours than to look at boats!

Weather was BEAUTIFUL; sunny and warm.

We had a nice lunch at Snug Harbour restaurant adjacent to the show.

Then onto the boats!

My favourite was the Blue Jacket 40

Nice layout, nice finish, great overall boat.

Could be ours for the boat show special price of $420k

Best of all it had a working head!

I love our CS34.

C22 Whitby Single Handed

First singled handed race of the season.

Had to have the autohelm working, so I picked up a pin to put in the new tiller from Nat's Marine.

Winds were forecast 18 knots from the NW with gust in to the upper 20s.  At the dock, wind meter showed 20 knots constant.  Hooked up double reef main and #3.

Ross on Gruntled is out of town.
Rob from Firebird II came by and said his boat is not ready.
Andrew from Berserk has not been racing this season.
Surprised that Chris from Iris was not out.

Still Time and Cam from Cheeky Monkey.

Blowing hard out there, I had the right amount of sail for upwind and reaching. 

Course was set to 3 medium.

Autohelm would not keep a course and was wandering all over the place, so I could not use it.  I guess that is why I was given this unit.  Going to go back to my old unit.

Upwind I could keep up with the Shark, we were right with each other at the windward mark.  The downwind second leg was difficult for me.  Cam had all his canvas up and pulled way ahead of me.

The new rudder is awesome.  However, when you do get over powered in the puffs, you could feel the rudder lose its bite as the boat rounded up, but there was NOT a lot of weather helm.  Different than the old rudder which had TONS of weather helm.

I think I made some ground on the reaching and upwind legs.

Finished about 4 minutes behind him.

Coming back from the race course was close hauled, I regularly kept 6 knots of boat speed with the Shark right with me.  With the double reef and #3, the boat was upright with no weather helm.

Coming in the wind was howling up the channel, so I started the motor.  About half way up, it stalled and wouldn't start, so I was tacking up the channel.  Cam was doing the same, and during a tack, his tiller extension got jammed, and he hit the metal wall on the west side of the channel.  I went over to see if he was alright.  Some damage to the stem fitting on the bow.

Turns out my motor was out of gas, so had to do a quick refuel.

Without a working autohelm, dropping the sails was a SHITSHOW. 
Zoom in on the Google Earth track.

Great night on the water.

Trip Odometer: 9.10 miles
Moving Average: 4.2 knots
Moving Time: 02:09:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2014/20140522.kmz

C22 Whitby Race Night

Melissa, John, and I.

Racing main and new #1.

5 boats out in our fleet; course was 6 medium.

Windfinder was saying winds were to die to nothing as the night went on.  Sure enough, there was only 2-3 knots of wind, but no waves.

We had a great start on port tack.  We were 2nd coming into the windward mark, about two minutes behind Cheeky Monkey.  Coming up to mark 6 on port, we had to duck Gruntled coming in on starboard.  We tacked a little too early and were in their wind shadow, so we missed the mark, and had to tack a couple of times.  This allowed Fly Buoy (Thunderbird) and Foxtrot (Shark) to get around us.

Looking at the GPS track, we lost almost 5 minutes getting around mark 6!

Mark 6 may have shift slightly from its GPS co-ordinates
The floating barrel does swing on its anchor chain

The rest of the race was SLOW, many times the GPS reading no boat speed.

We finished 3rd, 19 minutes behind the Shark. 

Don't think we would catch anyone on corrected time.

Trip Odometer: 7.20 miles
Moving Average: 2.5 knots
Moving Time: 02:55:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2014/20140521.kmz