Last two videos

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The NYYC Invitational

Trish and I just returned from New Port R.I. where we watched the third New York Yacht Club Invitational. four years ago in 2009 they invited 20 clubs to compete in an even sailing race. The idea was that the best sailor would win not the best boat. Twenty New York 42 built by Nautor Swan with identical sails would race every two years off New Port.

The crews would be from yacht clubs from around the world. If you would like to see an impressive list of clubs go to the NYYC web page and look at their section for The Invitational. In the first race we, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club did very well coming second to the host NYYC. two years ago we surprised every one and won the regatta easily. This year it was anything but easy. After three races Lachmont lead with 6 points and we were far behind with 30. Races 4 through 8 were then won by RCYC, our club. The last race was abandoned and we beat Lachmont by 6 points.

I have lots of pictures but we are hurrying off to Denver to see the grandchildren. I will have more later, but for now i will give you a poor video. I hope my camera work improves.

A trip to Wiggers

From Presqui'le Bay we headed for Wiggers Custom Yachts. We were sinking in our beautiful new yacht. Our center board sits in a trunk which has a plate on top for inspection. It turned out that the bolts holding it down were insufficient for the job. Wiggers lifted us enough to raise the trunk top above the water level fixed the fibreglass, re bedded and put larger lag bolts in. When we got home it started to leak again so i replaced a few more of the undersized bolts and we are no longer sinking.

Irish MIst in the Travel Lift

Centre Board Trunk with plate off

Plate re bedded and back on

Wild life at Darlington

The Murray Canal

The Murray Canal is a 5 mile canal linking Lake Ontario with the Bay of Quinte. Built between 1882 and 1889 as an alternative to travelling around the south shore of Prince Edward County. It was two swing bridges with a toll of $5.00 covering both.

Below is a picture of Mary sitting on the bow of Pipe Dream as it navigates the Canal.

This year we saw about 25 turtles sun bathing on the rocks

The Bay of Quintie

 On Monday August 5th we headed out of Clayton and back into the Islands. We spent two days anchored at Mulcaster Island one of the park islands. Our next stop was Kingston. We stayed at The Kingston Marina which is just past the lift bridge on the causeway.

We got to the bridge a little early since it does not open at 12:00 noon, took much car traffic. It was very windy and rough waiting in the bay for it to open but both Irish Mist and Pipe Dream survived.
Once in we got to take a look at their fire boats. Kingston Marina happens to make the best fire boats in the world. They had one55 footer finished and on its way to Alexandria Virginia and a 70 footer almost finished on its way to Huston Texas. In one of the building was another 70 footer for Huston which they hoped to launch before the ice comes.

Amherst Island Ferry

In the morning we left for Stella Bay an anchorage which Trish and I had not been to. It turns out there is a public dock which allows dog walking. Once ashore we found a street with lights and a small museum pictured below.

Stella Bay Church

Irish Mist sitting in Stella Bay

While in Stella early Thursday morning Kelly started to have seizures, as she does about every three years. Trish felt that if we got to a dock on the mainland we may not be able to get her off the boat. So we called the Coast Guard who arrived in a large inflatable. We were a little concerned and distracted, so it was not until they were gone that I got a picture.

The Bay of Quintie takes you about half the way from Toronto to the Islands inland. The North shore is   the mainland while the South shore is Prince Edward County. At the West end is the Murray Canal which has two swing bridges which you pay $5.00 to pass. The canal is part of The Trent System which takes boats without masts to Georgian Bay. The East end is serviced by the Ferry to Amherst Island and The Glenora Ferry. Both these ferry's are considered part of the highway system and thus free.

In the middle of the bay are two bridges. The first at the East end is at The Narrows and about 90 feet high. The other is at Belleville and either 70 or 75 feet high. My new mast is 64.5 feet plus our radio antenna. I was sure I would get through the East bridge and almost sure I would get through the West one. We got through both, but the second was close. Shown below is the Narrows Bridge.

While at Sandy Cove we saw a passenger ship go by.

Pipe Dream Conquers Clayton

The main purpose of our cruise was to get Pipe Dream The Hodder Award, which they had been working on for 6 years. The secondary purpose was to show Pipe Dream in The Clayton Antique Boat Museum Boat Show.

As I have already mentioned The Museum has a hard time with none runabouts. These are beautiful boats and remind many of us of our youth at cottages. I have selected some of the boats which where at the show.  Remember if you click on any of the pictures they will enlarge.

  

While the top judges, those who judged the best of show never even saw Pipe Dream and no points where given for boats which where actually used Pipe Dream did win there category. The judges took 3.5 points off a 100 point score. Three of the three and a half points where for putting a new motor in the boat. The best part of the score sheet was the judges comments "Spectacular Boat".

The Ladies receive their award

On Sunday after the show had finished friends Gord and Margaret, my sisters and I went for a ride in one of the Museum's runabouts. Here is a little bouncy video.

As we were going for the ride while sitting in the back seat I took a picture of the mirror. I took several pictures due to the bouncing. Tis is the best.

Bill and Mary of New Hampshire at The Riverside

Our friends Bill and Mary Thurber seem to show up everywhere. They drove down from New Hampshire to see the Islands and our boats. They had seen Pipe Dream but not since she had been to the Spa. We have visited them in Cornish for The Fourth of July, in a few weeks after The New York Invitational we are having dinner with them in Barrington Rhode Island and Trish and I are celebrating The American Thanksgiving in South Bend with them and going to see ND play BYU.

A freighter in the background

Bill and Mary on Irish Mist with Kelly

A better picture of Bill