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A Series of Unfortunate Events |
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| Sunday, July 4, 2010 11:02 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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Distance Travelled: 63 n.mi.
On Board: Osito, Sonia, Timon
Map:
We left on a steamy (~30C with the humidex) Monday afternoon, and motored under light winds northwards towards Frying Pan Bay. Around M14-M12, we noticed a looming dark cloud to westward, and checked on the updated forecast. "Risk of Thundershowers" had been upgraded to "Squall Warning, with damaging hail" so we prudently turned around, and raced back to the nearest safe anchorage (Cedar Springs campground, on Beausoleil Island) - the decision being that we could enter the anchorage safely under almost any conditions, and there would be lots of room to swing or drag if need be.
As we arrived, lightning and rain began, and the clouds were bearing down on us quickly. We dropped the anchor, let out 7-1 scope, and dropped chains of the fore and backstays to serve as lightning protection (the mast is grounded properly, to the keel, but I'd rather the lightning not have to go through the hull if we did get hit. The storm passed in about 1.5 hours, with some gusts that were in the 35 knot range, and quite a bit of rain -- but we were on the north edge of the cell and were probably spared the worst of it.
After the storm passed, we hauled up the anchor and motored with a short break for sailing as the wind died down a bit to 15-20 knots up to Frying Pan Bay.
We anchored there for Monday and Tuesday nights.
On Wednesday, we were on a hike on Beausoleil Island when Osito was bitten on the nose by a Massassauga Rattlesnake. I carried him back to the boat (about 45 minutes' walk), then we motored down the small craft route on the east side of Beausoleil while Sonia kept him calm inside the cabin.
The wind was blowing about 20-25 knots, so when we got out onto the main part of Severn Sound, the waves were about 3-4 feet - we had a pretty rough ride as we got out clear of Beausoleil, and reached almost 8 knots motoring downfetch. We arrived back at the marina at about 7pm, got in the car, and drove to the Huronia Emergency Veterinary Clinic in Barrie - arriving there at about 8pm. Osito's face was swollen to about 3 times its normal size by this point. He stayed there overnight, on IV fluids and anti-inflammatories, and we picked him up in the morning with an excellent prognosis. We spent the night in the Marina, and went out for an evening sail to watch the Canada Day fireworks. Friday, we headed out to meet up with Heeling Power, Emerald Night, Las Brisas, and Breathless for the evening in Long Bay on Beausoleil.
The approach to Long Bay - we never saw less than 8 feet of water along this route.
Congratulations are deservedly due to Mark of Emerald Night, who in addition to being the Vice Commodore of the Midland Bay Sailing club was just promoted to Chief of Police for Barrie!
There was little to no wind, so we had to motor up. Osito's IV wound wasn't clotting well due to the medications he was on, so we had to keep changing his dressing and keep him as calm as possible to prevent him from reopening the wound.
We sailed the Mirror dinghy, and discovered the hard way that there was some rot at one of its chainplates - the mast fell down in the middle of a sail as the screws ripped right out of the wood.
That evening, we had a nice campfire on shore, then retired for a well-earned sleep.
We spent the first half of Saturday on the raft, but Tiffany's brother Ryan was driving his wakeboarding boat up to meet us and broke down -- so a rescue party of dinghies had to be arranged to tow him onto the raft. We eventually peeled off of the raft at about 3pm, heading home in the best weather we'd had all week. Jim and Deb on Premie arrived while the rescue party was out, andrjoined the raft as well - making it a 7 boat raft!
We sailed most of the way home at about 5-6 knots, with both sails up. A beautiful way to end the week.
Upon arrival at the Marina, we stopped at the gas dock and put in 18 liters of diesel (the diesel tank was full when we left the marina - we probably burnt most of that while motoring back with Osito) and tried to get a pumpout of the head tank, but the machine was broken and couldn't build suction so we had to leave the spare keys with the marina and they will pump it out sometime this week.
Quite a week! Hopefully the next time we head up will be less eventful.
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| Best Sailing Weekend Yet |
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| Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:37 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 45.5 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 56.3 n.mi. GPX Tracklog: [Image:2010-05-28.gpx] A two nighter weekend - I sailed to beausoleil island on friday night, with about 15 knots of wind from the northwest. I sailed right into the anchorage, ju |
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| First Sail of 2010 / Victoria Day Weekend |
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| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:38 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 10.8 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 10.8 n.mi. GPX File: [Image:2010-05-224.gpx] [Image:Screen shot 2010-05-25 at 10.37.25 AM.png] We spent Friday and Saturday cleaning the boat, and preparing for sailing - fully reorganized the contents of |
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| Launched! |
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| Thursday, May 6, 2010 1:50 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| A wholly uneventful launch (the best kind!), I was at the slip by 9am [Image:IMG_6006.jpg] [Image:IMG_6010.jpg] [Image:IMG_6013.jpg] [Image:IMG_6016.jpg] [Image:IMG_6024.jpg] [Image:IMG_6026_2.jpg] [Image:IMG_6027.jpg] |
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| Echo Charger Installation Details |
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| Thursday, May 6, 2010 1:47 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| This is not 100% complete, as I am planning on relocating the house bank, but here's pictures of the echo charger installation and solar panel charge controller relocation. I'm going to build a better panel for the charge controller as well, when I r |
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| Ready to Launch! |
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| Wednesday, May 5, 2010 3:24 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Work Done By: Timon I spent the day doing launch prep. I Antifouled the hull, installed batteries and solar panel, started engine to dewinterize, reconnected raw water intake hose and closed all thru-hulls. Also, I installed a xantrex echo-charge t |
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| Sailing with Sonia, Osito, and Mom |
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| Monday, September 28, 2009 5:46 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 8.9 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 310.7 n.mi. A nice daysail, we went out in a bit of a drizzle, which cleared up - and sailed at around 6 knots for a while in 10-15 knots wind, with about 10-15 degrees of heel the entire way. The weather |
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| Note to self |
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| Monday, September 14, 2009 12:30 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| battery supplier: http://discover-energy.com/ |
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| Niko's First Sail/Baby on Board |
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| Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:24 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 2.2 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 301.8 n.mi. Marty and Jenn came up with their 2 1/2 month-old son Niko for the afternoon, we got them out for a short sail. Niko seemed to really enjoy it! [Image:Screen shot 2009-09-14 at 8.38.02 AM.png] |
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| Spectacular Brown Bay |
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| Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:22 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 28.2 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 299.6 n.mi. Motorsailed at almost 7 knots up to Brown Bay on Saturday, and anchored in a basically empty anchorage - now that summer's "over", the anchorages are much more enjoyable! There were |
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| Fixing some wiring issues |
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| Monday, September 7, 2009 8:48 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| I started changing the wiring of the boat to more suit the way I would like it to be, [ http://joliebrise.orawski.com/FOV1-00019238/FOV1-00019239/?OpenItemURL=S000BB4E7-000BB4E7#2009-09-07 ]See the projects page for more info |
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| Beasoleil with my mom and Nadia |
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| Sunday, September 6, 2009 8:47 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 14 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 271.4 n.mi. [Image:Picture 8.png] [Image:Picture 9.png] [Image:Picture 10.png] (We definitely didn't drag!) |
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| Beckwith Island with the Satovs |
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| Saturday, September 5, 2009 8:47 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 37.9 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 257.4 n.mi. [Image:Picture 5.png] [Image:Picture 6.png] [Image:Picture 7.png] [Image:IMG_4688.jpg] [Image:IMG_4691.jpg] [Image:IMG_4699.jpg] [Image:IMG_4702.jpg] [Image:IMG_4703.jpg] [Image:IMG_4706.jpg] |
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| A Fix-it day/ Finishing Projects |
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| Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:27 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Description to come later [Image:IMG_4634.jpg] [Image:IMG_4637.jpg] [Image:IMG_4638.jpg] [Image:IMG_4639.jpg] [Image:IMG_4640.jpg] [Image:IMG_4642.jpg] [Image:IMG_4648.jpg] [Image:IMG_4649.jpg] [Image:IMG_4652.jpg] [Image:IMG_4655.jpg] [Image:IMG_465 |
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| Bone Island with Sonia and Osito |
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| Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:57 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 32.4 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 219.5 n.mi. Motored up in no wind to Bone Island, with intent to anchor in Hockeystick Bay - hoping to be close to Las Brisas for the weekend to socialize a bit - Hockeystick was already full, so we motor |
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| Beausoleil Island with Osito |
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| Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:52 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 25.5 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 186.9 n.mi. Sailed up to Beausoleil, headed for Chimney Bay - sailed in company with Totziens for a while. When we got to Chimney, the anchorage was pretty much full - so I returned to Cedar Springs for |
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| Frying Pan Bay Long Weekend |
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| Friday, July 31, 2009 7:48 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 34.9 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 161.4 n.mi. A nice weekend out with Mom and Osito. Sailed out most of the way to Frying Pan Bay on Friday Morning, and motored the rest of the way in to get there quick enough to find a spot for the long |
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| Another Quick Daysail/Mirror Dinghy First Sail |
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| Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:44 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 7.6 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 126.5 n. mi. [Image:270809_74526_0.png] [Image:IMG_4258.jpg] [Image:IMG_4261.jpg] I also took out the Mirror Dinghy for a quick sail Distance Travelled: 1.0 n.mi. Max Speed: 4.7 kts [Image:270809_74719 |
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| A Quick Daysail |
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| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:43 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 9.7 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 118.9 n. mi. [Image:270809_74417_0.png] |
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| Solar Panel Install |
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| Friday, July 24, 2009 1:36 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| I made a rail mount for the solar panel, it seems to be able to churn out about 3 amps under ideal circumstances [Image:IMG_4161.jpg] [Image:IMG_4163.jpg] [Image:IMG_4255.jpg] in cloudy conditions i'm still getting about 0.5 amps out of it [Image:I |
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| Unpleasantness |
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| Friday, July 10, 2009 3:29 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| There's a story for these pictures, but you don't want to hear it [Image:iPhone Image 7D03B4.jpg] [Image:iPhone Image 7D03DC.jpg] [Image:iPhone Image 7D038B.jpg] [Image:iPhone Image 7D040F.jpg] [Image:iPhone Image 7D0342.jpg] [Image:iPhone Image 7D0 |
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| Furler! |
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| Friday, July 10, 2009 3:19 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| My new Harken Cruising Unit 1 has finally been installed! I took the boat out for a quick sail out in the bay to test it out, it works beautifully! Distance Travelled: 2.1 n.mi. Year-to-Date: 109.2 n. mi. [Image:270809_74234_0.png] [Image:iPhone |
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| Satov Cousing Camping Weekend |
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| Monday, July 6, 2009 3:32 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| A "long" weekend with a short sail, a group of Sonia's cousins came up to the boat on a camping trip - now a yearly tradition. It was a full boat, with six people and two dogs, we had a great time hanging out and barbecueing with the two ba |
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| Frying Pan Bay/Osito's First Sail |
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| Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:46 PM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| Distance Travelled: 27 n.mi. Year To Date: 102.1 n.mi. Sonia, Osito, and I motored to Fryingpan Bay, rafted up with Heeling Power and Breathless, then sailed home early on Sunday. The motor up on Saturday was cold and dreary, a fairly nasty day to b |
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| Of Interest |
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| Tuesday, June 2, 2009 12:51 AM -0400 |
By: Timon Orawski |
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| All of my sails on Jolie Brise to date, you can really see how I'm starting to spread out further now! [Image:020609_125209_0.png] |
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