Meanwhile in Colorado: beautiful day for CSYC’s annual pursuit race yesterday. Sunny, temps in the 70s, breezes at 10kts gusting 15. Today: freezing temps, several inches of wet heavy snow on the ground, tree limbs breaking.
Two more Sunday races left, then hauling out by Halloween. Cheers, Randy > On Oct 9, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > We had Turkey Trot (Canadian Thanksgiving!) races yesterday and today. > Yesterday we had 20-30 kt. winds most of the day, with temperatures over 20 C > - as Michael said - October sailing in short sleeves! Today the remnants of > Nate arrived - no wind (0-4 kt.) and rain. Not much of a sailing weather. > > I went for a quick spin before starting decommissioning for winter. Sad time > of the year. > > Btw. our Club is about 2 km from Britannia. When they recorded that 85 kt. > wind, at our Club the top recorded wind was around 45 kt. Nothing to report > in our Club (short of a few jibs unfurling). In Britannia, a number of boats > were damaged (one fell off the cradle, a mast broken, many a stantion bent, > numerous dinghies strewn around). > > Marek > 1994 C270 “Legato” > Ottawa, ON > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Brown via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com > <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> > To: cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> > Cc: Michael Brown <m...@tkg.ca <mailto:m...@tkg.ca>> > Sent: Mon, Oct 9, 2017 10:50 am > Subject: Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes > > Winds have been up this year. I went for the last sail of the season then > un-stepped the mast yesterday. > At 5 AM Sunday the Toronto Island Airport which is across the Western Gap > from the National Yacht Club > recorded a 47 mph gust, 32 mph winds. The forecast was for the wind to ease > in the afternoon to under > 10 knots east, we enjoyed upwards to 20 knots south. Nice sailing in short > sleeves on October 8th. > > A couple of weeks back on September 27th we had the last race of the fall > series with a storm line crossing > the province. Winds were consistently into the 20s though we wondered if > there would be a significant > gust. The storm continued east towards Ottawa and the Britannia Yacht Club > where a downburst hit > them with a 100 mph gust and 87 mph for over a minute. > > Hopefully not the new norm. > > Michael Brown > Windburn > C&C 30-1 >
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