Month: August 2015
New tool. Eating healthy.
Daddy daughter breakfast= Pizza at Piearo’s.
Jasmine and I slept in this morning. She got up around 10:45 and I at 11. I checked my email and someone I had emailed yesterday had got back to me. He was selling a lathe. So off we went.
We went over to the shop and got the trailer and went to his place. I looked at the lathe that had rust and didn’t turn on and offered him $20. We settled at $40. I’ve been looking for a lathe for about a year or so. This one popped up on Kijiji and scooped it up. I’m still looking for a Drill press to replace the one I have now. It’s whipped… It still works but is on it’s very last legs… (I may have found one but won’t know until next week.)
It’s a Craftsman 30” lathe. Someone had let it sit outside in the rain once so it had some surface rust on the bed. The table top that it was attached to was particleboard. It goes kind of crazy when it gets wet. It had got wet and expanded to more than twice the original thickness. It didn’t turn on when buddy went to show me how it worked. I got it anyway. On the way home we stopped for a nutritious brunch of Pizza slices and pop. Mmm. If only Heidi was here. We wouldn’t be eating so late and so well.
We got it home and I took it apart. Their was a reason it didn’t start when buddy plugged it in. The switch is broken. It is either on or grounds out the circuit and blows a breaker. I popped a breaker finding that out. I took the top off because it was about to return to the earth as a dry flaky compost. It also made the whole unit easier to carry. It came with a stand with a shelf and a honking big motor. With the cast iron lathe attached to the top of the stand it is very heavy. Too heavy for me to carry.
I’ll pick up a new switch tomorrow. It’s just a simple household light switch.
I cleaned off all the rust with some PBlaster and sandpaper. Then I oiled the bed so it doesn’t rust again. Chances are pretty good that this will stay in the garage at home or in the big shed at the shop. Both are unheated… So tools can rust if not protected properly. I would put the new lathe in the shop but I have some rearranging to do in their first. That will take some time so it’s best in either the garage of the big shed. The oil I put on the lathe is a temporary solution. I will get some beeswax and melt it in a finishing oil and rub the lathe down with that later. That’s the finish coat.
After I tuned up the lathe it’s good as new. It took about 1 hour to do everything. I still need to install the switch. That will take 2 minutes.
When We got home with the lathe Jasmine took off to play with a couple of he little girls down the street. They went to the park, then swimming and she didn’t get back until 8:30 pm. Their was a little break in between to go pick up Heidi from the market down town. She called from a payphone to say she had returned to the city… I tried to call her numerous times today and go the message system…. Turns out she turned her phone off. Simple enough right. Well she didn’t remember me telling her what the buttons do… And she didn’t bother to push any of them…. Had she, she maybe would have turned it back on by mistake….
New tool. Eating healthy.
Daddy daughter breakfast= Pizza at Piearo’s.
Jasmine and I slept in this morning. She got up around 10:45 and I at 11. I checked my email and someone I had emailed yesterday had got back to me. He was selling a lathe. So off we went.
We went over to the shop and got the trailer and went to his place. I looked at the lathe that had rust and didn’t turn on and offered him $20. We settled at $40. I’ve been looking for a lathe for about a year or so. This one popped up on Kijiji and scooped it up. I’m still looking for a Drill press to replace the one I have now. It’s whipped… It still works but is on it’s very last legs… (I may have found one but won’t know until next week.)
It’s a Craftsman 30” lathe. Someone had let it sit outside in the rain once so it had some surface rust on the bed. The table top that it was attached to was particleboard. It goes kind of crazy when it gets wet. It had got wet and expanded to more than twice the original thickness. It didn’t turn on when buddy went to show me how it worked. I got it anyway. On the way home we stopped for a nutritious brunch of Pizza slices and pop. Mmm. If only Heidi was here. We wouldn’t be eating so late and so well.
We got it home and I took it apart. Their was a reason it didn’t start when buddy plugged it in. The switch is broken. It is either on or grounds out the circuit and blows a breaker. I popped a breaker finding that out. I took the top off because it was about to return to the earth as a dry flaky compost. It also made the whole unit easier to carry. It came with a stand with a shelf and a honking big motor. With the cast iron lathe attached to the top of the stand it is very heavy. Too heavy for me to carry.
I’ll pick up a new switch tomorrow. It’s just a simple household light switch.
I cleaned off all the rust with some PBlaster and sandpaper. Then I oiled the bed so it doesn’t rust again. Chances are pretty good that this will stay in the garage at home or in the big shed at the shop. Both are unheated… So tools can rust if not protected properly. I would put the new lathe in the shop but I have some rearranging to do in their first. That will take some time so it’s best in either the garage of the big shed. The oil I put on the lathe is a temporary solution. I will get some beeswax and melt it in a finishing oil and rub the lathe down with that later. That’s the finish coat.
After I tuned up the lathe it’s good as new. It took about 1 hour to do everything. I still need to install the switch. That will take 2 minutes.
When We got home with the lathe Jasmine took off to play with a couple of he little girls down the street. They went to the park, then swimming and she didn’t get back until 8:30 pm. Their was a little break in between to go pick up Heidi from the market down town. She called from a payphone to say she had returned to the city… I tried to call her numerous times today and go the message system…. Turns out she turned her phone off. Simple enough right. Well she didn’t remember me telling her what the buttons do… And she didn’t bother to push any of them…. Had she, she maybe would have turned it back on by mistake….
I have a new blister on my left hand.
It’s from digging holes with my post hole digger.
We went to the village for coffee this morning. The idea was to go to the chiropractor and we did that but after we went to Black Walnut Cafe for coffee. Jasmine had banana bread and water. It was nice to be in the village early on a Saturday morning. The Walnut wasn’t busy when we arrived but soon filled up as we were finishing our coffee. They have a new cafe downtown that I look forward to going to. It’s only 5 blocks from our house. That makes it very easy to wander down to.
After coffee we went to a couple garage sales in our area. I got Jasmine a folding camp chair. At one sale someone gave her a stuffie dog. She has carried it around all day…
We took Heidi to the bus station so she could go to Toronto for her friends wedding party party thing… I think she will have a great time. Especially just being away from the hubby and kid.
Once we dropped Heidi off we went to Gibraltar Trade Center. I needed to get another piece of rubber as I cut the last piece into washers for the keel swing bolt and lock down bolts. I made 16 sets of 4 and am giving them away to the people that own Siren 17’s. I sent out 6 sets yesterday.
I also wanted to take a look at the flea market. I need a new pocket knife and know that FCS sells them as well as some of the flea market vendors.
I checked a few places and finally came across a guy that just sold spring assisted folding knives. Spring assisted means that their is a spring that helps the blade open. Not a switch blade. More like any pocket knife but a lot easier to open. I found one that I liked at the knife shop and got it. It’s 6.25” long overall, all stainless steel and has a blade that is 2.75”. Not too big. Just perfect for carrying in my pocket. I had been looking on EBay for the style of pocket knife I wanted for a couple weeks. This just has a single blade and is thin.
After the market we went to the shop to see how Rick made out with the holes. He hadn’t done anything since I was there yesterday. So much for tricking someone into digging holes for me. The hole he did start was about 18” deep. I finished it off to 3’ and then dug 3 more 3’ deep. 4 holed in total with my clam shovel.
Once the holes were dug I put the posts in them and added ½ a bag of concrete to each hole. Then I set the poles level. Once level I poured water into each hole. The I filled each hole with the dirt I had taken out. Then leveled them all again. Done! It only took me an hour and a quarter to do all that. Jasmine helped sift through the dirt for old broken china. I put it all back into the holes.
We had burgers for supper. Mostly because Heidi is away. We may have them for breakfast too…
We had a party to go to tonight at 7pm. We got their a little late because I couldn’t find the place. I thought I knew which house it was at but was wrong. After being chased out of someone’s back yard I got a call from my buddy Knoal. (Not his real name.) He told me what house it was at and off Jasmine and I went.
We entered the party by walking down an alley between 2 big houses. It led to another set of door. I opened one and walked in. Didn’t get chased away. This was the place.
What a beautiful back yard this guy has! it is all deck. But it has a roof that surrounds ½ of it around the edges. Everywhere I looked things were well placed and neat. each of 3 corners of the yard had a little sitting area that was beautiful. It all was beautiful!
He even has a music house. That’s a dedicated place to listen to music. It’s a separate house behind the main house.
We had a great time. I got to see a couple of my old college teachers. There was live performances and great conversation.
I didn’t have time to return it for my reward…
I found one of the missing cats today! It was outside it’s house wanting attention. It wanted me to pet it! I didn’t fall for it though. I just took pictures. I am pretty sure this cat cuts it’s own hair. It has one bad hair cut! The picture on the lost poster had it with a lion type cut. Today it looked more like the mauled by a lion cut. It followed me down the road a little bit but I was in a hurry and didn’t capture the beast.
I popped by the shop today and marked out where I need to dig holes for the new fence. Rick (The guy that cuts the grass.) was there and I told him I was going to put a fence up and that I needed to dig 4 holes. He jumped at the chance to dig the holes! So I left him with the post hole digger… It’s a manual type one… Like salad tongs.
I loaded up the utility trailer with the old wood that came off the old trailer. I was planning to burn it tonight at the yacht club. 2 birds with one stone. Have a nice family bond fire and get rid of wood. It didn’t work out that way though. The yacht club had a group of dragon boaters there tonight. The wind was going right at the clubhouse too… So I chose not to burn the old wood and instead went for the cut logs from around the club. (Ash trees that the Emerald Ash Borer killed.)
I lit the fire and we cooked weenies and had those as our supper. (My plan was not to use the ld wood to cook weenies but to burn it after supper. Who knows what chemicals is in plywood…) We had a good time around the fire and I put it out after we ate. The girls went to catch things in buckets at the edge of the lake and I packed up.
After packing up I went to the boat to take some pictures of the rudder castle for a Siren 17 owner that just broke his. Also to check the water tightness of my rubber gasket repair.
Dry as a popcorn fart! Yea!
After the yacht club We took Heidi home because she wasn’t feeling good. (She has a cold.) The Jasmine and I went off to a big box store to buy fence posts and concrete. Both for the fence. Then we went to McDonald’s for ice cream. (Don’t tell Heidi.) It was 9pm and the place was full of teenagers. Messy loud ones too. Jasmine pointed that out to me…
We dropped the new posts and concrete off with the trailer at the shop and saw that Rick had dug one 18” deep hole.
He was still there… I told him he was doing a great job and that I would come by and help tomorrow sometime. I’m not sure when I will get time to go by at this point…
Tomorrow Heidi goes to Toronto for a bridal party party for her friend Paula’s wedding. Heidi is one of the brides maids. She leaves at 1 pm and comes home on Sunday some time. I figure that Jasmine and I can install the fence posts in the afternoon on Saturday. Hopefully the 4 holes are finished by the time we get there.
We have a social function to attend Saturday night with some of my friends. It should be fun!
Tomorrow morning Heidi and I are going to the chiropractor in the village. I will take another look for that cat.
New fence.
I now have a fence to install at the shop. I’m going to run it along the South side of the property from the corner of the lot to the end of the house. That will keep people from using my back yard as a thoroughfare.
I picked up a 4’ high chain link fence. I still need to get the posts. I’m pretty sure I have posts at the yacht club. I have a pile of unused posts lying on the shore line. I only need 4 posts. I have 2 already. The end ones from the old 4’ chain link fence that someone drove through. I hope that doesn’t happen again… Not sure when I am going to install the fence. I’ll probably start digging holes tomorrow or Saturday. I’ve never installed a chain link fence so I need to figure it out first.
At one time their was a retail store in the building that I have my shop at. One of the employees kept driving into the deck and the wood fence. She really shouldn’t have been driving… She wouldn’t enter the parking area if there was another car in it. The parking area had room for 6 cars! Her car was a testament to how well she drove. It had dents and scratches all over it. I asked her after she backed into the deck and broke it if she looked behind her when she went backwards. She said no. I didn’t bother to ask anything after she drove into the wood fence and knocked it over. (She broke 2 6×6 posts that time.) I just removed the fence. I figure that she could hit the trees or the neighbor’s house. To hit the house she would really have to squeeze the car between the trees… Surely she would loose the side mirrors and probably the door handles. She never tried to my knowledge. I replaced the deck after she smashed it. two weeks later the deck had a hole in the lattice and the underneath storage door was ascue… (I made the new deck bigger than the old one.)
I got a new point and shoot camera today too. I found it on Kijiji. It’s a 5.5mp Panasonic that comes with a case, charger, and funky tripod. I really only wanted the funky tripod but the camera came with it. It will be a good addition to my camera collection. It’s very thin and light. Perfect for putting in a pocket. Perfect for putting inside a boat that is being worked on.
I also picked up 2 platforms for my stairway to the dock. I have new stairs at the top of the hill and the bottom. In between the stairs are dangerous. I don’t have enough room to run stairs straight from the top ones to the bottom ones in one run so I figured I could break the stairs up a bit with two landings. They are 4×6’ and made of 2×6 on the deck and 4×6 for the stringers. Super heavy duty. Perfect for the wilds of Fanshawe lake.
I have the platforms in the new utility trailer right now and plan to take them to the lake this weekend some time. I won’t install them this weekend as it’s supposed to rain.
10 years.
It’s Heidi and my 10th anniversary today. I got her flowers. She got me flowers. Jasmine gave us flowers she cut from the garden. We have a lot of flowers.
I took the girls out to Chinese BBQ for dinner today too. We love that place. Anything on the menu is delicious! Today we had Pad Thai, crispy spicy seafood, Garlic Brocky, soup, and rice.
After supper we went to the yacht club to sail.
It’s Wednesday. The day everyone comes out to race me. Also the regular scheduled beer can races. (I like to say that people come out to race me because typically we are the only ones on the lake when we sail… ?) I guess everyone is too busy to sail. (I’ve been their. Don’t like it much.)
The races were had two starts again. I figured that I should start with the keel boats since I won the regatta on the weekend.
There were only 4 of us in keel boats. I got started a little late…. Last over the line. But we were 2nd around the first mark. We lost that lead won the downwind drift to the 2nd mark. It was a long drift. More than half the lake long. We were last getting around that mark. But only by about 20 seconds.
We fought right to the end and were about 30 seconds behind the 3rd place boat. Overall we kicked butt! Only finishing about 2 min after the first boat. The other boats are much faster boats too. The winner was a T22 and the others were CS22’s. All have to give time to the slow lumbering Siren 17.
If the time was corrected for the PHRF we would have won by a long shot.
On the way back to the dock I used the motor to get through the mooring field. There was no wind there at all. When using the motor I noticed that the tiller handle seemed a bit loose. So I got looking at it when we docked. The bolts are loose on the leg of the outboard! It has 3 bolts that holds the bottom end on. Only 2 were remaining…
Looks like I need to take it apart and get a new gasket for that joint as well. Part of it was sticking out broken… Not a good thing. The motor was built in 1965 and by the ESCA corporation for Sears. It was marketed as an Elgin 2ss. Almost nothing in the way of info about the motor exists that I can find. ESCA was a new company and just built the outboards with parts from other manufacturers… So the motor is a Tecumseh 3hp and the leg is something I can’t recall now…
I’ve called sears about the motor before and was told that they don’t have any record of ever selling it. Funny that… Sears owns the Elgin name…
I think I will get some gasket material to make it myself. No cereal box gasket for this outboard motor.
Water tight bottom.
My camera girl and I were back at the club today. We (I) had to replace the jib halyard turning block on the mast. Also thread the jib halyard through again… Because I pulled it out on Sunday… I figured that since I have the mast down I would replace the faulty block.
The block was an experiment. I wanted to find out if I could use Princess Auto junk on the boat. The block qualifies as junk… it is pot metal and doesn’t have bearings. Just metal on metal for the bearing… Not the best design. But I’m sure it would work for it’s intended purpose… What ever light duty task that is. Hanging bikes from the garage ceiling…? Kids block and tackle experiments?
To be fair I should say that it did work fine on the boat. The problem we had was related to the block twisting and the halyard rubbing on the side of the block. That created a lot of drag and made it very hard for Heidi to raise the jib. Me too sometimes. I put the block through it’s paces and am sure I put more pressure on it than is intended. Hey it held a genoa and or jib in gale force 3 conditions last year. And I keep sailing it hard…
I made a couple videos on how to replace the keel bolt rubber washers. One yesterday and another today. Yesterdays was how to do it on a boat lift and today’s was how to do it on the trailer. (Most will do it on the trailer.) If I had thought about doing it more I would have elected to do it on the trailer too. But I have access to a boat lift… So the lift won.
When we were at the club I met another member and got him to show me how he made his home made furler. He did a good job and I think I will copy his design for the Siren when I get around to it. I may have to tweak his design for myself though.
After I had installed the new block and threaded the halyard thought it i had to raise the mast. Jasmine refuses to help me because she says it’s too scary… (I only have her hold the fore stay. Just hold it. Not pull the mast up or hold the mast when it’s up… ) So she played on the ground behind the boat while I raised the mast alone. I filmed this as well.
I filmed it because there is only a goofy Siren 17 mast raising on YouTube. It was done by 3 drunk guys that swear a lot too. My video has no swearing and it’s no nonsense. I climb onto the boat and raise the mast. After that I get off the boat and turn the camera off… Ta Da. It takes about 2 min.
After the mast was up and the shrouds tightened I put the boat back in the lake. Jasmine held the lines. That’s not too scary. I put the boom back on and the outboard motor. We just motored back to the dock. I would have liked to go for a little sail but Heidi called and told me that she was starting supper. Can’t miss supper.
After supper I dropped the empty Siren trailer off at the shop. I spoke with someone that told me that he saw some punk trying to steal my new utility trailer on Sunday night. He scared him off when he turned on a light. I’m glad I got the new locks for the trailers yesterday. Hopefully that will be more of a deterrent. Who knows, maybe I should keep it chained to the shed…
I know I need to brand it. So I will make some stencils and paint Northchannelcharters.com on it in white. Maybe that will help it stay around.
New ingress deterrents. Theft and water.
I changed the rubber gaskets/ washers on the keel pivot bolt for the Siren today. I did it the hard way. First I dropped the mast so I could get the boat onto the lift at the yacht club. Also so I can re-thread the jib halyard through the block… The one I pulled out by mistake on Sunday morning…
I had Jasmine with me to help with the keel bolt removal. She did some of the videotaping and handed me stuff as I needed it.
I put the boat on the lift and got it off the trailer and onto saw horses. Then I put my small automotive floor jack under it and used a 1×3 to lift up on the front of the keel. Just enough to take the weight off the bolt so I could remove it. About ⅛”. Then it was into the cabin to undo the nut and get the bolt out. That went really well. All told I was done in 20 minutes. That included taking photos and making a video of the whole process. It’s a pretty easy repair.
I’m going to write up a tutorial on how to remove and replace the washers as soon as I have time. I’ll email the instructions to all of the people that I’m sending the rubber washers to. So far I’m sending washers to 8 different Siren 17 owners in Canada.
I’m going to replace the block for the jib halyard with a new one I have. It’s a triple block but that is fine for now. I will order a new double block and install it in the spring. Then I’ll put the triple block on the chicken head for the main halyard and topping lift.
To replace the jib halyard I will need to drill new holes and move the attachment to the mast. It will be too low if I install the new one where the one that is their now is. The one that is there now isn’t in the best of shape. It’s corroded and sometimes gets the halyard caught in it. (It’s not meant for sailboats. I think it’s meant to raise bikes to the ceiling of your garage.) It worked for a year and that’s about the life span of this pot metal block.
I went by the shop after I was done at the club. I had to lock up one of my ladders that one of my buddies had borrowed and returned yesterday. (I forgot to go over last night after he dropped it off.) I was relieve to find the ladder where it is supposed to be. I was kind of surprised to find it still there too.
There’s been a rash of break ins and thefts in the area as of late. London has a little bit of a Meth problem… It seems to have migrated to the nicer areas of town from the East end. The shop is close to downtown and on the corner of a main thoroughfare. There seem to be a lot of people that use my yard at night to cut the corner… Not my front yard. The back yard! I removed the fence a few years ago after someone drove through it. Yes drove through my 4’ high chain link fence… Then drove back through and away… I’m thinking of putting up another fence so through traffic is a little more difficult.
While I was at the shop I noticed the lock on the new trailer tool box had been tampered with. It was bent and partly open… Someone wanted into the tool box… The lock is a small combination type lock that is good for a locker or something. (I use them on the boats and the trailer tongues of the boat trailers.) I have been switching to combination locks that I can set the combination on. This is so I don’t need a huge ring of keys for 20 different locks… When I saw the bent lock I was reminded of a lock set on sale at Princess Auto. I couldn’t recall how many locks came in the package.
Off Jasmine and I went to Princess Auto. The sale ends today… Turns out the package has 12 locks that are all keyed the same. All for $14. Yea! I picked up a set and set off for the shop again. I changed 4 locks at the shop. 2 on the new trailer, one on the small shed and one on the ladders. I use locks on the ball hitch of each trailer so I know the trailer will stay where I put it. I have the Siren trailer at the club and will put a new lock in it tomorrow. Then on all the other trailers as I come across them. I should have one or two locks left after I swap everything out.
One of my buddies had his trailer stolen with 2 new snowmobiles on it right off his truck. In a hotel parking lot too. The thieves just undid the bolt he had keeping the hitch locked on the ball. The attached their tow vehicle and off they went. The police caught the guys that stole his trailer etc. They were driving on the 400 going toward Toronto with it. They only got about 1 hour south of where they stole it from.
I really didn’t want to go back to using keys… The combination locks are really expensive but do save carrying a key. I’ll just have to keep extra keys around just in case I forget.
I will continue to use the combination locks on the boats themselves. That way I can give a new personalized combination to charter clients. (The last 4 digits of their phone #.)
Club Championship.
Another fun day racing my Siren 17. Today there was wind!
Yes about 5km/h even some gusts of 10km/h. That made for fun sailing.
Our lake is shaped like an S. With North being on the top left of the S. The racing took place along the \ part of the lake. It’s a tricky part of the lake to race in because of the way the wind is affected by the bluffs that surround part of the lake. The whole lake is kind of tricky because of the bluffs and the S shape. That’ good for people learning to sail.
The races started at 9:30 am and went to about 1:30. There were 2 in the keel boat class and 4 in the Lazer class. I came in last the last race. But I came in 2nd last the first race. After the 2nd race for the keel boats we all went to the clubhouse for lunch. (Mmm. Leftovers from yesterday’s lunch and dinner. Who ever made the slaw did a great job!)
After lunch the race organizer John told me that I was in 1st place in the keel boat class! This let me race one more time in the championship race. So off I went to re-rig the Siren that I had just taken the sails off. I got it re-rigged and raced again.
This race had me up against a CS22 for the championship of the keel boats. (CS22’s had their own class as their were 3 of them for the regatta.)
I came in last again. Bit it was close. Less than a minute close.
After the race I pulled the Siren out to make the keel bolt rubber washer repairs that I need to do. Also re-run the jib halyard. The one that I lost up the mast yesterday… My plan was to replace the rubber washers this afternoon. But that last race took some time. I didn’t get home until 4:15pm.
After pulling the boat I went to the clubhouse to see who was club champion. That’s when I found out that I’m the club champion for the keel boat class!
Wow! Now I get my name on a small trophy and that goes onto a big one next year when they peel my name off the trophy and stick next years winners name to it.
What a weekend! I go to have a lot of sailing time. And I won something I didn’t think I would ever win. (PHRF ratings make wins like mine possible.)
Now I’m the2015 club champion with one of the slowest boats in the fleet.
2nd! Last.
Day 1 of the Fanshawe Yacht Club Championship Regatta has me in # th place. Yea I don’t know what place I’m in. No one does. Not in the open keel boat class.
We started the day with the skippers meeting and then it was off to race. The start to the course was set near #4 marker. So the race would take place in the middle and north end of the lake. See map part way down the page. http://www.wayfarer-canada.org/00coming.up/Pumpkin_promo.html
The course was A,5, finish. It ended up being A,6, finish. There was no wind…. Because of that the course was shortened. Good thing too. It took us 30 min to sail from the docks to the start line in the first place. I had to use the outboard motor to get to the line on time… Some guys in smaller boats weren’t so lucky. 2 missed the start all together.
The keel boat fleet was 7 boats. 3 of which have their own class. (CS22’s) So I’m really just up against 3 other boats.
There was another Siren 17 out when I got to the lake! But they weren’t interested in racing. They just wanted to drift very slowly. That’s what we all did. They saved the $25 entry fee and got to go for lunch when they wanted. The rest of us had to wait until we finished the race or gave up. I chose to finish. Turned out that the lunch pizza was still warm when I got to it.
At one point I was 2nd. That was just over the line and only lasted a minute. I was in 3rd for about 30 min while trying to get to the first mark. But the wind soon stopped and I lost 2 places. After I rounded the first mark I was passed and put into 6th place. I almost got back into 5th on the run to the finish but a puff gave a T22 a little push and he got over the line 30’ ahead of me. That’s where I stopped and rested. 30 feet from the line. No wind! I think the slow current of the lake took me the last 30’. Because it took about 20 minutes to get over the line! I just chatted with the race committee on the barge.
“Am I over yet…?” “No about another 15 min at the rate you’re moving…” “How about now…?” “A little more than 5 min to go…” They were right. I did cross the lane before one other boat! A CS22.
I used the outboard motor to get back to my dock once the horn went telling me I was over the line. It’s a small 2Hp Elgin. It is slow too. But better than paddling.
Speaking of paddling. I could have paddled my sailboat around the course in half the time it took to sail it today. It was over 2 hours to get around 2 marks! Good thing I brought water, pop, and apples. I could have starved going that long without a snack and drink of water.
I had the forethought to bring my Bluetooth speaker so I could listen to music while I slept at the tiller. I’m the only boat that had techno music playing.
It was decided that the day would be one race only. Tomorrow we are going to start early and hope to get more races in than just one.
The FYC annual corn roast was today at 5 in the club house. I was about 45 min late arriving because of a scheduling mix up with Heidi and Jasmine. I tended up that I brought Jasmine along with me. (She had just come from a spa day birthday party and was all dressed up and had nail polish and toe polish on.) She was the best dressed. When we got there the electricity was off… I was told that the transformer blew… The wire going to the clubhouse was hanging really low too. The repair crew was on it’s way. (I expected some time next week. But they showed up within the hour.)
The guy with the bucket truck said that the power outage was from the wire breaking and that he would repair it within the hour. We didn’t stick around to see it fixed. Heidi called and we had to get home to get Jasmine to another party. This one was across the road for the Majella’s kids baptisms today.
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