Weekend Sailing

We finally got the kids and Chance out for a sail on Sunday. With some storm clouds threatening, we headed out on the lake shortly after lunchtime. We followed our friends Paul and Wendy in Salty Hacker out of harbour and got a nice picture of them with their sails up. We sailed a a few miles down the lake towards Toronto keeping a watchful eye on the weather. After an hour or so the clouds seemed to move off and we had a perfect sail. The wind was blowing briskly from the south at about 12-18kts, and there were a few white caps, but conditions were great for sailing.

Cruise to Port Dalhousie

We sailed over to Port Dalhousie this weekend with 6 other sailboats from PCYC. It was a regatta of sorts as we raced over on Saturday, which was interesting as the weather had a bit of everything, from dead calm winds to light showers, some nice winds to a violent thunderstorm that just skirted us shortly after we arrived at our destination. We placed third in the race (Actually 4th but Vince & Julie who organized the weekend disqualified themselves) which is pretty good considering we did the race White Sail and all of the boats ahead of us flew spinakers. We spend Saturday night at Port Dalhousie Port Marina and had a nice dinner with the group at Port Dalhousie Yacht Club. We returned back to PCYC on Sunday making it about half way under sail. The trip is about 25nms each way and a little more than half way back the wind totally died so we powered the last 10 miles or so. A nice weekend on the water.