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!
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.
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 →]
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 →]
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 →]
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 →]
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 →]
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. Lawrence Seaway around the Thousand Islands, the container ships seem to slow down considerably, and reduce their wake to a very [Read More →]
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 village dock has space for about 4-5 boats, but draft near the shore is shallow for keel boats, and half way [Read More →]
Did not want to waste any valuable days travelling, so off we go. Left Cobourg at 10pm, nice motor sail, by 8:30am we were just outside Main Duck Island. We are travelling in sort of a convoy of 3 boats. One boat just arrived in Cobourg, and the other was not leaving until morning, so [Read More →]
Kids love the waves at the beach in Cobourg! We spent a fun fill day here. We will leave tonight at 9:30pm, due to arrive on the US side in Cape Vincent by 10:00am tomorrow! We love traveling at night, so peaceful, kids sleeping, moon light glistening on the water, sound of the waves lapping [Read More →]
Black Diamond a Jeanneau 39i Performance Cruiser will be making its 4th go around on the Lake Ontario 300 in 2011. The first two attempts were successfully completed, our personal record time of 2 days and 8 hours for the full course, of 300 miles, about 550kms. Last year we did not finish due to [Read More →]
Hear are some photos I have found on the web of our boat from various web sites.
Dear friends, The LO300 started and ended today for us at Black Diamond. Three Squall lines blew through the race with in a few hours. Sustained winds of 30 knots or 52km, and gusts of 48 knots, 80-90 km per hour. 6 to 8+ foot waves, marble sized hail was coming down. So far [Read More →]
Written by Martin Boeykens The Lake Ontario 300 is billed as the longest annual fresh water race in the world. I competed in the race this year aboard “Black Diamond” with Captain Ed Radonic, and crew Andrew McAllister, Cez Makowski, Kate Thomas and Will French. The Start: Twelve rolling starts are scheduled for the 160 boats so [Read More →]
A few photos from this years Yacht Racing Season.
We finished the LO300 Monday night at 11:57PM North American EST time. Just 3 min. before Tuesday, so we can claim we came in on Monday. ; ) Thats 2 days 12 hours 57 minutes. Almost a day earlier than last year. We are happy with our results, as a beginner crew, still learning the [Read More →]
The first photos uploaded from Black Diamond live during the race….Will French went up the mast to release a stuck tickler and to look for wind. America’s Cup style!
We went out into the lake last night, might have been a bad move. The inshore guys made time on us. Scotch Rocks passed us. But our forecast called for more wind offshore, plus we wanted to postiion our boat for a close haul instead of a spinakker run, since we ripped it. This morning [Read More →]
We are holding are own in our fleet. We are happy with the results. Much better than last year. We did not expect to come near the top 5 of this division. Last year we only beat one boat in our division, if we do better than that, and arrive before Tuesday at 7PM, I [Read More →]
We we did a good job going out to the middle of the lake, had good wind all night, and did not get wet at all. The boats that stayed in had similar wind, but got rained on. We gybed in, and around the scotch rocks. At about 3:30 AM, A sail boat in the [Read More →]
We hare off, close to 170 boats. We were in the 9th start, at 11:05am. We were over the line 5 mins. early, mis-read the start, and gybed back around. Had a little trouble raising the spinnaker. Then took us a little to get the boat going. We are coming up the back of the [Read More →]
Well Guys, Black Diamond is back in Toronto….It was a grueling two weeks, stepping the mast down in Catskills, NY and after navigating 33 locks through the Erie & Oswego Canals, then an all night crossing of Lake Ontario, lengthwise about 125 miles (200 km). We stepped the mast back up on Thursday, the day [Read More →]
Just completed close to a 1,000 kilometer trek back to Toronto. Continuing up the Hudson River to the now familiar Hop-o-nose Marina in Catskills, New York. Very friendly, professional staff and ownership. The only place I would recommend on the Hudson for stepping your mast and storing your wooden mast supports, or even building them [Read More →]
August 21st, 2008 – Port Credit Yacht Club to Oswego across Lake Ontario. Dear Friends and Family, Our friends and family have expressed an interest in our trip and asked that we keep some sort of a blog to keep in touch. We thought that we would send periodical e-mails about our whereabouts, and the [Read More →]
A Lake Ontario 300 Story! The longest fresh water race in the world. “And a little lamb shall lead them…..” Or in this case, maybe it was a big black sheep…..Ed Radonic left his slip at PCYC to begin his first LO300 full of optimism, on his beautiful, black Jeanneau 39i Performance, Black Diamond. New boat, new crew [Read More →]