The Tourism Office of Spain and Navy Point are the proud sponsor of Black Diamond Yacht’s Racing Program. Black Diamond 2012 Season ended with these results… Last Week-ends Thanks Giving Turkey Race, 1st in division September Directors Race, 1st in Division, 3rd Overall Summer Diamond Girls Team, 2nd in Division. Summer Men’s Division 5th overall. [Read More →]
Grand Bahama Bank to Bimini, 80+ miles passage from The Berry Islands, Chubb Cay. We figured it may take us as long as 12+ hours for this passage. We left Chubb before day break at about 5am, pulled the anchors, and set off. It was amazing to see absolutely nothing for the whole day, and [Read More →]
Chubb Cay, Berry Islands, Private Resort. Complete with marina, airstrip, restaurant, Infiniti pool and beautiful beach. This place is a riot after spending months in remote islands with no amenities for the most part. The only resort type place we went to so far has been Atlantis. The Chubb Cay resort just entered into bankruptcy protection [Read More →]
After provisioning in Nassau we set a course for the Berry Islands, a 36 mile passage across the North East Providence Channel. A large body of water between New Providence and Berry Islands. It’s amazing how deep these waters get from the shallows of 10 feet in the Bahamas Cays to 7,500 feet and even [Read More →]
We are getting pretty comfortable with anchoring out for extended periods and not heading to a dock as often as we use to. This is saving us quite a bit of money on docking, which in the Bahamas can cost anywhere from $2 to $4 per foot. In fact we have not been at a [Read More →]
Land and Sea Park, Warderick Wells Cay, Exuma Cays, Is a Bahamas National Park and Land Perserve. For more information please visit this site. http://www.bahamascruisersguide.com/page75/page19/page19.html The Land and Sea Park in the Exumas was the next stop in our voyage as we headed north on our island hope up the Exumas. Warderick Wells Cay, is a National [Read More →]
Bitter Guana Cay in the Exumas, Near Staniel Cay and Black Point Settlement. http://www.bahamascruisersguide.com/page75/page2/page2.html Bitter Guana Cay a must stop at least for the afternoon to explore this amazing island. Home to a few iguanas, and nothing more. Amazing Coral Rock Formations hand over a picture perfect little lagoon. On the inside the view is [Read More →]
March Break! Only have about two weeks to get the boat to Fort Lauderdale from the Exumas. After a few days enjoying the Family Regatta in George Town, we set sail North on the out side of the Exuma Cays. I have two rod holders on the stern, and the rods are always ready to [Read More →]
On the August 2012 Civic Holiday long week-end, the PCYC Family Cruisers headed out to the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club. Thirteen boats in attendance with about 16 kids on board called for a fun filled and exciting week-end. To see all the details watch this video!
Black Diamond’s 5th Lake Ontario 300, This year, finished 3rd in PHRF 2 Main Duck Fully Crewed Flying Sails and 12th overall PHRF Main Duck Boats. We are very pleased with our results this year, as always the conditions were all over the map, but no rain, no storms and lighter than usual. Our personal [Read More →]
The Port Credit Yacht Club Cruise Committee organizes many club cruises throughout the year. The video below is the family oriented cruise on Canada Day to Fifty Point Conservation Area, Marina and Yacht Club. We had 18 boats and 34 kids attend the long week-end cruise.
We had a really fun and good race…Our best performance long distance yet. If you were following my blog, twitter or facebook, you would know by now we ripped our heavier spinnaker, nothing we were doing wrong, it was up and sailing nicely, and sheared off at the bottom re-inforced tack. This should not have [Read More →]
Our last afternoon in Havana, just sitting poolside at the Melia Cohiba downtown city hotel. No beach but the view is unbelievable; a stone’s throw to the Malecon, an oceanfront promenade lining the 6 km length of the shoreline along downtown Havana. A popular hangout for the local youth, where you’ll find a spontaneous [Read More →]
Diamond Girls, is an all female racing crew comprised, of women of the Port Credit Yacht Club. Some own boats with their husbands, some don’t, some have sailed, some have never sailed. But they have come together here with a common interest in sailing, and learning to race. Ed & Roxane Radonic on their boat, [Read More →]
Volvo Ocean Racing… In Port Races for 2012 Full One and Half hours each, amazing, around the buoys in 70 foot Volvos.. In Alacante, Spain watch?v=Er98ogArEiw In Cape Town, South Africa watch?v=lbsDzrXnCAA In Abu-Dabi, United Arab Emirates watch?v=D2nRB31WVeE In Sanya, China watch?v=xaoV66r7JT8 In Auckland, New Zealand watch?v=jMzYTSKz8kg In Itajaí, Brazil watch?v=ChiWQkqcQaQ In Miami, USA * Most [Read More →]
The Diamond Girls finally have some very professional crew shirts! Donated by RadonicRodgers Strategy+Marketing& Paul & Sandra Benninger from Fortune’s Favour, and also Crew on Black Diamond. The Diamond Girls are racing Black Diamond every Monday night at the Port Credit Yacht Club, This is an all female team helmed by Roxane Radonic and her [Read More →]
Had the privilege of an amazing tour of the Algo-Steel Freighter ship in Port Colborne by our instructor Tom for Transport Canada. Tom is also a Pilot in the Welland Canal and a Fully Qualified Master, and is able to fully Captain these large containers. Really enjoyed learning under him, great teacher! Mouse over photos collage [Read More →]
I have just spent the last four days in Port Cobourg at a Transport Canada Centre taking this course. The Canadian MED A2 is your Course for Safety at sea for Passenger-Carrying Vessels. Recommended for officers and crew of small commercial passenger vessels. Topics covered include marine hazards and emergencies, emergency preparedness and response, fighting [Read More →]
After spending a few months in the Bahamas during the winter of 2008/09. We were delivering our sailboat home to Toronto, we decided to enter an offshore Race from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston and then the Charleston Race Week, and Delivery to New York City via Atlantic City on a Jeanneau 39iP, Black Diamond. We [Read More →]
Just after Hurricane season Nov. 1st 2008, we left New York City, offshore, for a non-stop trip to Florida. We arrived in Jacksonville, Florida, in 5 days and 3 hours non-stop ocean passage. We endured a 36 hour tropical depression ocean storm. This was part of our re-positioning and delivery of Black Diamond down to [Read More →]
This is a video & slide show of our trip in 2008 on Black Diamond. We cruised the Erie Canal and down the Hudson river to New York the last week of August. The trip started near Toronto, Port Credit, and ended near New York City. With our Jeanneau 39iP, Sailboat. This trip served as [Read More →]
It was a beautiful summer July Wednesday night at the Port Credit Yacht Club in Mississauga near Toronto, on Lake Ontario. About 25 or so boats came out to what was going to be another routine Wednesday night race, at least we thought. Great fun, turned in to even greater fun. Due to a line [Read More →]
Paul Benninger & I are delivering Black Diamond to Sackets Harbour on the US side near the St. Lawrence 24 hours away. We are leaving her there for winter service. We leave tonight at about 10pm ETA tomorrow 10pm. Sea state last night was 10 footers wind on nose, thank God, it clocked around wind on Starboad [Read More →]
The Annual Port Credit Yacht Club, PCYC Director’s Race takes place usually in October. This year we had perfect conditions, a beautiful sailing day. Director’s of the club race against the members, I might add, the members usually win! This year Black Diamond was fortunate enough to have 4 directors and the club manager aboard, [Read More →]
June 3rd, 2011 This is the “Coolest Race on the Lake” and we mean both Cold and Hip type of Cool ! The water is still blistering cold after a long Canadian Winter. Hyperthermia could set in – within a couple of minutes, and a quick death to follow. This race takes us 75 miles on [Read More →]
The Port Credit Yacht Club Cruise Committee organizes many club cruises throughout the year. This is the first year for the club cruise committee to organize family centric cruises. Our family the Radonic’s volunteered for this task. Fifty Point was the first such cruise. We had 17 boats with 24 children participate in this [Read More →]
Long trek home! From Leek Island it is a 6 hours trek to Wemps Bay on Amherst Island past Kingston. We stopped at the Kingston Yacht Club for 20 mins, re-fuel, fill water tanks, hose down cockpit, empty trash bags, buy dinghy fuel, oil. And were off. Wemps Bay is our little secret. A very [Read More →]
About a 1/2 hour sail from Gananoque, is Leeks Island, Aka Thawratway Island. A really nice mooring hole, with 5 mooring balls for boats to tie up to. Our friends moored, we anchored. Enjoyed the beach for a couple hours as you can see here. Alex loves driving the dinghy, and Thomas loves swimming. We [Read More →]
We spent an evening in Gananoque, strolled the town, had dinner in a Checkoslovakian Resturant, Schnitzel… Not nearly as good as Hungarian. The kids spent the day fishing, and Alex caught a 24+ inch Muskie and a Turtle with a net. This kids played with it for a bit before it was released. I was [Read More →]
We dinghy boated, hiked, swam off the boat many times and baked bread! So far we anchored out a couple of nights in some beautiful bays in the Navy Islands. This was the first overnight anchorage for our friends, I showed them how to set their anchor alarms so they could have a good nights [Read More →]