Volvo Ocean Racing… In Port Races for 2012
Full One and Half hours each, amazing, around the buoys in 70 foot Volvos..
The Diamond Girls are racing Black Diamond every Monday night at the Port Credit Yacht Club, This is an all female team helmed by Roxane Radonic and her Diamond Girls, Ed is fortunate enough not to be kicked off the boat yet, and is acting as coach and deck swab. They are racing various male teams, and every other week participating in Women on the Helm. Women on the Helm, is a special division where boats compete against each other, where there are women on the helm of each boat.
Laurie, Iyrna, Stephanie, Roxane, Andree, Nicole, Christine, and Sandra Benninger missing in action.
Paul Benninger, Ed Radonic and the Diamond Girls.
Roxane and Stephanie
Diamond Girls
Ed and Paul Benninger.
Had the privilege of an amazing tour of the Algo-Steel Container 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!
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 for officers and crew of small commercial passenger vessels. Topics covered include marine hazards and emergencies, emergency preparedness and response, fighting shipboard fires, sea survival, distress signals, inspection and maintenance of emergency equipment and passenger control in emergency situations.
Check out the video below…
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 then the Charleston Race Week, and Delivery to New York City via Atlantic City on a Jeanneau 39iP, Black Diamond.
We placed fourth in the Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race in 2008
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 trip started near Toronto, Port Credit, and ended near New York City. With our Jeanneau 39iP, Sailboat. This trip served as part of our summer vacation, and also part of our re-position and delivery of our boat on it’s way down to the Bahamas where we spent a few months of the winter of 2008/09.
Please view this video and slide show.
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 squall that hit the fleet.
It was pretty predictable for those that have been through one of these a few times. A dark cloud was quickly approaching, the wind completely died, then veered a full 180 degrees, the temperature dropped 5 degrees, and then it hit us. 30 knot winds sustained, gusting to almost 40 knots at times.
With the wind shifting a full 180 degrees after the first go around, the finish turned out to be an up wind finish. With boats tacking up wind, in heavy winds for the finish, it proved to be a tricky race, and just a little dangerous.
Have a look at this video it will prove to be both interesting and entertaining.
I’m stuck in a hole (at my desk) – no wind doing 0 knots. Haven’t moved in hours. - Ric Doedens
Doing 1knt around a pool with a jack hammer but a nice view of the lake here on waters edge!!!! – Ken Bruce15.1 knots – that’s unbelievable !! – Fred Azouz
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, along with Ken Bruce our star helmsman, and Director of PCYC’s Learn to sail program. We were doing pretty good, 2nd or 3rd in the fleet when we blew a jib halyard. It messed up our race, but not the great time we all had.