Tuna Fishing – Atlantic Side of the Exumas.
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...
Blogging aboard Black Diamond!
Sailing logs of Black Diamond, a Jeanneau Sailboat.
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Amazing, 137 room castle, complete with Yacht House, Play House and Power House. To house, Boats, Toys, and it’s own electric generation. This the boat house for the castle, or should I say Yacht...
The St. Lawrence Seaway was even busier than we thought it might be. – But more so with recreational power boaters. They were more of nuisance than the large container ships. In the St....
During the hurricane Paul, the kids and I sat in the out door hot tub and enjoyed the day despite the weather. After the storm, after a whole day of rain, wind and clouds,...
Here we are in Alexandria Bay about 100km east of the eastern edge of Lake Ontario. We have prepared the boat to go through the edge of the hurricane. Tied the boat off on...
Here we spent a night at the Cedar Point New York State Park. A nice beach, and a dock with just enough room for three of our boats. We have been traveling with The...
We had a great sail from Sackets Harbor to Cape Vincent, up wind most of the way, and arrived within 4 hours. There are a few free dockets that you can stay out. The...
After exploring Main Duck Island, we set out for Sackets Harbour, NY. It was about a 3 hour leisurely cruise, Roxane caught up on some sleep from the night passage the evening before. Sea...