http://www.sailboatcruise.ca Sailing logs of Black Diamond, a Jeanneau Sailboat. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2012/01/02/line-squall-sailboat-race/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2012/01/02/line-squall-sailboat-race/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:20:47 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/?p=2209 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2012/01/02/line-squall-sailboat-race/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/27/wild-ride-sailing-on-lake-ontario/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/27/wild-ride-sailing-on-lake-ontario/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:50:31 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://radonic.wordpress.com/?p=2107 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/27/wild-ride-sailing-on-lake-ontario/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/pcyc-directors-race-2011/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/pcyc-directors-race-2011/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:58:09 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://radonic.wordpress.com/?p=2095 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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, [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/pcyc-directors-race-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/susan-hood-yacht-race-2011-video/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/susan-hood-yacht-race-2011-video/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:35:26 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://radonic.wordpress.com/?p=1894 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/10/12/susan-hood-yacht-race-2011-video/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/29/port-credit-yacht-club-family-cruise-to-fifty-point/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/29/port-credit-yacht-club-family-cruise-to-fifty-point/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:55:44 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://radonic.wordpress.com/?p=2071 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/29/port-credit-yacht-club-family-cruise-to-fifty-point/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/03/wemps-bay/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/03/wemps-bay/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:52:59 +0000 s/v Black Diamond https://radonic.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/traveling-home/ #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/03/wemps-bay/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/02/leek-island-1000-islands/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/02/leek-island-1000-islands/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:23:10 +0000 s/v Black Diamond https://radonic.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/leek-island-1000-islands/ #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/02/leek-island-1000-islands/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/01/gananoque-ontario/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/01/gananoque-ontario/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:31:50 +0000 s/v Black Diamond https://radonic.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/gananoque-ontario/ #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; }   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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/09/01/gananoque-ontario/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/anchored-navy-islands/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/anchored-navy-islands/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:43:22 +0000 s/v Black Diamond https://radonic.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/anchored-in-the-navy-islands/ #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; }   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 [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/anchored-navy-islands/feed/ 0 http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/boldts-castle-heart-island-thousand-islands/ http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/boldts-castle-heart-island-thousand-islands/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:40:00 +0000 s/v Black Diamond http://radonic.wordpress.com/?p=2027 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } 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 house by its proper name. Mr. Bold had a fleet of 60 boats, as you can see here it can even [...]]]> http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2011/08/31/boldts-castle-heart-island-thousand-islands/feed/ 0