July 10th, 17th and 24th
The forecast called for possible severe thunder storms. Toronto had a major storm two days earlier and I decided to be a bit cautious. We consulted with the other boats and decided to not go out. We had supper while watching Windburn and Jazz leave.
The weather clear. Perfect conditions. I felt like an idiot. My default decision is always to leave it to the PRO to decide. DNC. OOPS I
The next week conditions were good. We had a nice practise hoist with the spinnacker. Our start was OK. We had a good first windward leg. As we rounded the offset the spinnaker halyard got caught. We could not raise or lower the chute! After some debate I decided to bail. We motored by the RC and informed them of our decision. At the club we had lots of time to use the masting crane as a ladder to check out the top of the mast. The halyard had jammed itself between the sheave and the bracket. There was no way we could sort this out without the mast coming down. On Sat. we got the mast down and used some washers to fill in the gap btween the halyard and the sheave. This seem to be Ok but we got DNF. OOPS II
We finally got racing again. Winds were light. We had a good start. I tried to head up as much as i could but it only resulting in stalling the boat and having to bear away to gain back way. Windlight was clear ahead and maintained their lead for the race. The RC finished us at the windward mark (Great relief). We got another third but that is a lot better than the DNC an DNF!
The forecast called for possible severe thunder storms. Toronto had a major storm two days earlier and I decided to be a bit cautious. We consulted with the other boats and decided to not go out. We had supper while watching Windburn and Jazz leave.
The weather clear. Perfect conditions. I felt like an idiot. My default decision is always to leave it to the PRO to decide. DNC. OOPS I
The next week conditions were good. We had a nice practise hoist with the spinnacker. Our start was OK. We had a good first windward leg. As we rounded the offset the spinnaker halyard got caught. We could not raise or lower the chute! After some debate I decided to bail. We motored by the RC and informed them of our decision. At the club we had lots of time to use the masting crane as a ladder to check out the top of the mast. The halyard had jammed itself between the sheave and the bracket. There was no way we could sort this out without the mast coming down. On Sat. we got the mast down and used some washers to fill in the gap btween the halyard and the sheave. This seem to be Ok but we got DNF. OOPS II
We finally got racing again. Winds were light. We had a good start. I tried to head up as much as i could but it only resulting in stalling the boat and having to bear away to gain back way. Windlight was clear ahead and maintained their lead for the race. The RC finished us at the windward mark (Great relief). We got another third but that is a lot better than the DNC an DNF!
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