Winter Wonderland - Dec 2007

We returned from Florida on Monday to a winter wonderland. 25-30 cms of fresh snow had fallen over the weekend putting a blanket of snow over everything. I checked out VICTURA and shook some snow off the cover. There's lots of snow in the yard with some drifts about a meter in depth. The club got the plow through by the time I got down to the yard. The pictures below shots how things are looking at the lake.

Key West, Florida

We just returned from a week at Key West and West Palm Beach where we celebrated our 25th Anniversary. It was a terrific trip with very nice weather. Temperature was in the mid 80's F every day and we saw a lot of sun. Highlights of the trip included dinner at Sunset Key and sailing on the 60' schooner HINDU.
The HINDU hails from Provincetown, Mass and is owned by Kevin Foley who rescued her from scrap and completely restored her. The HINDU was built in 1925 and has been all over the world. We set sail at 5pm for a sunset sail. There was just Barb, me and 2 chaps from Bath, England along with Kevin and 3 crew. Conditions for sailing were great with the wind blowing 15-20 kts and temperature about 80 F. We made 9.5 kts and easily beat the other tall ships in speed.

Dufour 34-P - Factory Pics & Drawings

Some pics & drawings I pulled off the Dufour Extranet. For any Dufour owners out there, the Extranet is worth signing up to and getting access. The French site has far more information on it than the English one. Check out all of the D-34 reviews under technical information. Here in Canada, winter is upon us. We woke up this morning with 6 incles of snow on the ground. Yuck!