Blogging aboard Black Diamond!
Sailing logs of Black Diamond, a Jeanneau Sailboat.
Yacht races that we have entered, long distances and around the buoys.
Follow this link to listen to the Sailing Rode’s interview with Ed & Roxane Radonic about their experiences ocean cruising and racing Black Diamond. The interview with Ed & Roxane starts at about 16:30...
Black Diamond’s 6th entry in the Lake Ontario 300… Last year was our best performance, with a 3rd in division, and 12th overall in PHRF. We were hoping to outdo that performance this year,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We Rounded Gibraltor at about 1pm, slowly catching first 8 starters, passing boats one by one. Beating up wind in light air, battling for last two hours with After Burn. Enjoyed fresh Pull Pork...
Saturday Lunch – Pulled-Pork Sandwiches Dinner – BBQ Chevapi with Potato Salad and Tomato Onion Salad with Feta Sunday Breakfast – Bacon or Sausage and Egg on an English Muffin Lunch – Tuna and/or...
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...
This year race tracking is being supplied by YELLOW BRICK, a UK Yacht Race Tracking company. You will be able to Track Black Diamond at this link http://yb.tl/lo300-2011 We are on the Longer Main...
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...
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...
Black Diamond and crew won a record number of race flags this year. In total we won 6 race flags, 2 crusing flags in addition to this, 2 trophies at PCYC and 1 in...
Both cruising and yacht racing are important to my family, this is why we set out to acquire a versatile boat. We wanted a boat that had an open and large cockpit for entertaining,...
During the last leg, there was very little if any wind. The boat was creeping along, and without a spinnaker it made it extra slow. So we enjoyed some refreshments, home made stuffed peppers...
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...
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 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 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,...
We found our way, and are catching the fleet. My guess is we are about mid fleet. but still behind our division. We are cruising at 8 to 9 knots, and hit a top...
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...
