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...
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*VIDEO* Port Credit Yacht Club Family Cruise to the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club!
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...
Lake Ontario 300 2012 – LO300 Yacht Race.
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...
* VIDEO * Canada Day PCYC Family Cruise to Fifty Point!
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....
Black Diamond’s Susan Hood Trophy Race 2012
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...
Havana gives Canadian Sailors a Warm Cuban Welcome at the Hemingway Yacht Club in Havana!
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 First Race of the Season
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...
* VIDEO * Volvo Ocean Race – In Port Races – 2012
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 unveil their new Crew Shirts
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...
An intimate tour of the Freighter Algo-Steel from Bilge to Bridge!
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...
* VIDEO * Marine Safety MED A2 Course, Fire Fighting, Life Raft Use, Distress Signals
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...
* VIDEO * Offshore Race, Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race Week & New York City
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...
* VIDEO * New York to Florida, Offshore Non-Stop, Tropical Storm.
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...
* VIDEO * Toronto to New York, Via Erie Canal and the Hudson River.
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...
* VIDEO * Line Squall Hits our Wednesday Night Around the Bouys Race
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...
* VIDEO * Wild Sail on Lake Ontario, Delivery to Sackets Harbour, NY.
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...
* VIDEO * PCYC Director’s Race 2011
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...
* VIDEO * Susan Hood Yacht Race 2011
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...
* VIDEOS * Port Credit Yacht Club Family Cruise to Fifty Point.
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...
Traveling Home, Wemps Bay and Home.
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,...
Leek Island, 1000 Islands
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...
Gananoque, Ontario
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...
Anchored in the Navy Islands.
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...
Boldt’s Castle on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands
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...
Sailing The Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence Seaway in Ontario.
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....
Alexandria Bay, 1000 Islands
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,...
Weathering the Hurricane
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...
Cedar Point, New York State Park.
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...
Cape Vincent, New York
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...
Sackets Harbor, New York State
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...