MUMM36 WYC Wed Frostbite Race

The Whitby 100 was postponed due to major weather system coming through.

The forecast was showing 15 knots of wind with gusts to 30.
Would be a quick spin ride to Toronto.
Niagara was showing 19 knots winds with gusts to 40 between 11pm-6am: right when we would be beating to that mark.

Instead of starting at 7pm on Friday, they delayed it until 10am on Saturday morning.
The problem was that many of the boats could not get crew past Sat night.
We were down to 5 crew from 8.
All our competition withdrew, so so did we.

So Zamboni was in Whitby for the regular Wed Frostbite race.

We had 8 on board:

• Me (mast/bow)
• Jenny (runner and spin trim)
• Chris (helm)
• Mark (main)
• Peter (mast)
• Walter (runner)
• Kamil (grinder)
• Mike (grinder)

Forecast was for 7-8 knots from the east.
We went out with a conservative #2 headsail.
Turns out to be the perfect sail combination for the wind conditions.

Course was 7 short. 
The 2nd/3rd legs of the triangle were beam reaches, so we didn't fly a chute.
The 5th leg was dead downwind, so we did fly the "big blue" chute.

Chris did great on the helm.

September sails are the greatest!

I left my GPS at home, so not track or stats.

Peter working mast

Jenny took the helm on the way in

Chris, Jenny, Mark, Kamil, Mike, and Peter

Walter brought some Honey Crisp apples he picked an hour before coming to the boat.

MUMM36 Delivery from NYC to WYC

Zamboni is going to do the Whitby 100 race this coming weeked.

I had planned to do the delivery on Thursday, but the wind was going to be on the nose 12-14 knots with 3 foot waves.  Wednesday afternoon looked better, 7-9 knots from the NW, so a comfortable spin ride to Whitby, switching to the south around dinner time.

• Me
• Michael
• Dave
• Rui
• Kamil

Dave and I took the GO train from Whitby and met the rest at the boat.

We left the dock a little after 2:30pm.

Because we left later, the winds had already swung around to the south.
We went outside Toronto Island, and tried to hoist the symmetrical "Frankenchute".
However, there was a twist the spinnaker (bad packing) and we to partially douse it to get it out.
Winds were from the south and 12+ knots.

We were too close to the wind, and the boat healed over.
We ended up losing the remaining masthead halyard.

In restrospect, we should have hoisted a headsail and wait until we got around the Leslie Spit before dousing to a spinnaker.

Once past the spit, we did hoist the fractional Evolution spin and sailed comfortably for a while.
Winds were dropping, so we did an outside hoist of the larger "Big Blue" and doused Evolution.

After a while the winds completely died, so we doused the spin and motor sailed for about 10 miles.

Dave and Michael

Rui and Kamil

About 5 miles from Whitby, the winds started up again from the North about 10 knots, so we killed the motor and sailed with a full main and #2.

We got into the dock at 8pm.

Trip Odometer: 28.2 miles
Moving Avg: 5.2 knots
Max Speed: 9.2 knots
Moving Time: 05:26:00

For some reason, I didn't save the GPS track.

MUMM36 Toronto AHMEN Race

Raceboat Zamboni has not been sailed a lot this year.
Besides the Susan Hood and Lake Ontario 300, we did not do any other regattas.
The AHMEN series of fall races are put on by several of the Toronto based clubs.
There were about 30 boats out on this day.

http://www.ahmen.ca

We had a full crew:

• Me
• Kris
• Michael
• Ashley
• Phil
• Rui
• Lisa

Winds were from the NNW 7-9 knots (flat water).

We got out just after 10am for the 11:30am start.
The distance to the course off Mimico was just over 3 miles.

We took the time to hoist and douse a couple of our spinnakers.
Masthead symmetrical "Frankenchute" and masthead A2 "Tiffany".

We were the 5th start, and got off well down the line near the pin on starboard.

Spin action going to Toronto

The course was a figure 8 around Humber Bay.
On the leg toward Toronto, we were the southernmost boat.
The wind just shut off about half a mile to the mark, compressing the fleet to the mark.

NYC mark 2

Wind filled in from the North, so we were the last to get the breeze.
Boats only 100 yards north of us were cooking along, while we were parked.

When we did get the breeze back we rounded to the outside of the pack and pass many boats

We finished 9th of 11 boats in our class.

http://ahmen.ca/Results/2019/ahmen2019_3.html

Twas a great day on the water!

Coming back in sans headsail

We picked up our flag for winning the Susan Hood Trophy Race:

Phil Me Michael Ashley Kris

Trip Odometer: 20.02 miles
Moving Avg: 4.6 knots
Moving Time: 04:21:00

GPS Track
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C22 WYC Frostbite Series

Let me start with what a disaster!

1. Had trouble getting out of our slip
2. Blew out our #2 foresail
3. Went to the wrong mark
4. Lost the main sheet
5. DFL

Melissa and Chris came out.
Winds were 12-20 knots from the northwest, so we rigged reefed racing main and #2.
Chris on the helm.
Course was 2 medium.

Getting out of our slip, the wind was blowing 20+ knots from the NW and it blew us into some weeds that trapped our rubber.  The fact that we had the main half way up was a contributing factor.
We had to motor into another empty slip to the west to get control of the boat to head out.

Frostbite series runs for Sept with all boats doing a triangle course.
Out competition in white sail was Silver Shadow and Sandpiper.
Rabbit start which was confusing for EVERYONE, but we got a race in.

Perfect amount of sail.

We were last to the windward mark, but not too far behind out competition.

On the 2nd windward leg, we went to tack to the mark, and the #2 headsail hung up on the spreader and ripped it MAJORLY.

Sad face

We went bareheaded and swapped the the #1 as the winds were lightening.

Heading to the next leeward mark, we went to the wrong mark!
So we turned this leg from a 0.5 mile downwind to an almost 1 mile reach/reach.

Rounding the correct mark #8, we went to power up and the mainsheet let go.
I had re-rigged the mainsheet putting in the reef and didn't tie a proper stopper knot.
SHITTY STOPPER KNOT
Took a couple minutes to re-run the sheet through the blocks.

Tacking the finish line, John Scurr on Viking was finished the race and coming over to see if we wented to get in another one.  However, he was in out path and we were on starboard tack!

It was still a nice night on the water, despite the DFL!

Trip Odometer: 6.91 miles
Moving Avg: 4.3 knots
Max Speed: 6.9 knots
Moving Time: 02:13:00

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C22 Final Race of the Summer

Daughter Melissa had to switch an oncall assignment at work to come out.

At the dock, it was blowing 14+ knots with gusts to 20 from the south west all day.
This was on the 34 with the taller mast.  On the 22, only seeing 10 knots.
Very lump sea state, so we want to go out with a #1 genoa for power through the waves.
Melissa would feather/rag the racing main in the gusts

Once we got out there, the boats was being overwelmed and we rounded up a couple of times.

Decided to put a reef in the racing main.
We hove to and Chris and I put it in.

Racing main with reef

Clew of reefed main

We have never reefed the racing main.
Would have liked more tension on the clew, as the draft of the sail was fairly deep.
However, we needed to get to the start line.

Much better.

We did have to start the motor to get to the start line with 1 minute to spare.
Course was 4 short.
We came in on port tack and had to duck some starboard boats.
Not a great start, but considering getting out late as we did, not bad.

We were last around the windward mark, but not to far behind our competitors.

The reaching legs were both on the beam, and the wind was definately stronger above our mast, and the larger boats with taller masts pulled away further.

We finished last out of 4 boats in our class, but probably came 2nd or 3rd in corrected time.
Results have not yet been posted.

In the afternoon I used some spreader patch material to repair the hole in the genoa:

Worked Well

Glad we got out for the last race of the summer.

We definately came in 2nd in series 4 behind Bananas.

• Series 1: 2nd
• Series 2: 1st
• Series 3: 4th (we missed a bunch of races)
• Series 4: 2nd

Another great night on the water!

Trip Odometer: 5.51 miles
Moving Time: 01:16:18
Moving Avg: 4.3 knots
Max Speed: 7.8 knots

GPS Track
YELLOW is where we hove to for the reef
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BEN45 Whitby Stonehaven Race on Odyssée

This season, Frank is the new owner if a Beneteau First 45 called Odyssée.
He asked me to doublehand with him on the medium distance race called the Stonehaven.

Beautiful boat below and above.
Power winches on the cabintop AND the primaries.

Winds were 10-14 knots from the east.
We went out with a full main and a 110% jib.

We decided against doing a spinnaker or gennaker as it was only two of us.

Me on the helm eating a sandwich

Frank scurried about the boat trimming the sheets and such.

We tacked to head to the start line, and started powering up, the bowline for the headsail sheet let go, and the leeward sheet came out of the car.  The jib was free flying, so we had to furl the headsail in and correct.  We missed our start my 5 minutes.

We decided to go offshore as there was more breeze (16 knots at times).
The forecast was supposed to swing to the south, so we figured we would be knocked to the mark.
Well that didn't happen until after we got to the mark!
We went wing on wing and were last to the mark near Pickering.

Close haul to the Ajax weather buoy, we passed several boats:

We caught up and passed several boats to the finish, but ran out of room to catch the Capri 30 JustinTime.

Great day on the water.

Trip Odometer: 23.7 miles
Moving Avg: 6.2 knots
Moving Time: 03:50:00
Max Speed: 10.5 knots

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CS34 Friday Cruise to Pickering

We have been meaning to take our friends Stephen and Tanya out for sail this summer.  Anytime we setup a date it was either too windy, or too wavy, not the conditions to introduce new sailors to.

Earlier in the week, the forecast was sunny and 10-12 knots of wind from the north, meaning moderate winds and no waves, perfect introduction to sailing.

Went out with a reef in the main, and got the boat clipping along nicely.

I got Stephen to helm the boat for the first bit, then the auto pilot took over.

At the dock beforehand

Beautiful sunset off Ajax

Crewmember Shadow keeping watch

Sunset behind clouds

Me dropping anchor off Pickering

We anchored off Pickering in 10ft of water and enjoyed some shrimp burgers that Tanya had made.

Anchored just east of the Pickering Nuclear Plant

We hauled up the anchor, but the winds had dropped to less than 5 knots, so we motored to the Ajax Weather Buoy and then home, getting to the dock around 11:30pm.

I think Stephen is hooked on sailing, and will get him out a couple of times more!

Trip Odometer: 19.04 miles
Moving Time: 04:39:00
Moving Avg: 3.4 knots
Stopped Time: 01:33:00

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