Oct 15th.. end of the season.

END of Season #1 with Highland fling

Oct 15th was haulout, 8:45 in the morning, at PCYC - staff was once again excellent. I have yet to have any complaint about this club.

Here are some pictures of haulout - antifoul held up well dont you think? Bottomkote XXX - good by me. Have to admit I was worried what I might see say with rudder or keel after my first season with an almost 40 year old boat, but this is a solid boat and I think at least in structure I got a good one.

Well we did get at least one more sail in before the end in OCT. Last Sunday the 10th.. In fact we were lucky to go sailing twice in one day.
Around noon we were able to go sailing with a friend that has a very nice Catalina 30.. and wow.. fun boat and very enjoyable sail - even though we did not have the best of winds.
Afterward we enjoyed being out so much we decided to have one last sail of the season on Highland Fling, and the weather was great.. we has some pushing 10Kn winds and we were able to get the boat over 6knts several times.

Almost seasons end!

Sailing in Sept.

Well still enjoying the boat. We did get out Furling unit this past week.. but we will not put it on the boat this season.

I did stay out on the boat this past weekend of the 25th.. 8*c at night.. but it was fun, and the sail the next day was fantastic.


Haulout has been arranged.. wow.. went fast.

Outboard worked all season! :) Happy about that.. I will work on the cables for next year.

Boat performed awsome - Need to finish the handrail replacement and change the boom vang bail. The bail I had bought was for a dingy.. not a keel boat.. and it was a huge failure. I will put blank rivits in the holes, and then put the bail from a McGreger 26 on.. it was the right size, and $8.. how can you go wrong. But other than that everything else that needs to be done is cosmetic.

I will give a more detailed list.

Spring will bring some big jobs - including crack repairs, a soft spot in the cockpit sole repair and interprotect for the hull.

I have really enjoyed my G26 this season. I do have a dream of owning a Catalina 30 in the somewhat near future.. But this boat was an awsome get back in.

Lake Ontario in August

We have been out quite a bit, not a lot of photos of it.

Weather has been many days of good wind.

I need to work on my strong winds sailing, not the greatest, and our CREW is working out better and better every time we get back out on the boat. (Thats my wife and I)

My son Seamus has been over from England, and although sometimes he has fun, he is not a rollercoaster type sailor and I think some of the times we have been out he would have enjoyed a little less excitment then we have had.

We have managed to get to Center Island and that was very enjoyable weekend. One of the best GTA sailing locations - CenterVille, the parks, the beach. The Island marina is a great place for a Transient Slip and they have a good resturant and usually some entertainment at night.

You can get a fairy to the city if you wish pretty cheap - if your from out of town- cheaper than driving and parking in the city.


Continuing, and enjoying.

Sailing..

Well we have been out several times now.

I think i have the rig tensioned pretty good. The Genoa works very well, and the main, is not bad considering it was made for a different boat and was not recut.

The outboard - the Sailor 250 is working well OVERALL - i think I might have starter issues.
I will post a few more pictures soon, I am cleaning up the hull and decks, I have the new licence #s on, the temp head is installed, electrical is ok to sail with, though I have to clean up the wiring soon.

Overall I am happy with this boat, it sails very nice, and the more you actually get to sail it, the more you like it.

I thought this was an inexpensive way back into sailing (which it has been for the most part)

Positive I need to get his wired!

Ok, so I know its moving forward.

I need to get the outboard working so I can at least motor into the slip (about 100ft away) and from there I can get a lot more work done.

Once the boat is local I will be able to do something on it almost every night.

First though I need to have enough of the wiring up so that I can use the outboard.. its there.. its just messy at the moment and I am not sure where I am going from there.

This is my GOAL wiring plan.

But I am going to be short of that getting it in the water.

Well this week will be a busy one. Exciting, scary, and full of activity, but the last part is the best.. at least we are moving towards it getting in the water.

James

Well, phewww is all I have to say. Today I talked to the owner (previous) whos property the boat sits on. We are moving forward and we might be able to have the boat transported to Mississauga this coming weekend.. Wow.. I feel sooo much better. Lots to do to get it there. Paperwork, insurance, transport, arrangements for launch with PCYC and he marina.

Well if you did read this.. thanks for the wishes of luck! :)

James

More work, boat not moving

Well I was out on Saturday, and I managed to get some more work done, mostly CLEANING, and I did put the name on the boat.

Hard to see from the pic, but it is in plaid.

Anyway, this baby is paid for and sitting about 190km away from the marina. We could have had it moved last fall in October, but we had the offer of storage, and transportation in the SPRING! (not June) but that did not work out.

The property the boat sits on, and the person I bought it from are the same, but that person went to florida for the winter, I found this out, after we decided to leave it there, and only one week before he left. I did not get the paper work, so the boat has not been transfered into my name, we cant get insurace, cant put it in the slip, until all that is done, OH and it has been transfered to Lakefront Promanade marina in Mississauga.

Wish me luck, because I need it, this sucks.

In the beginning

Well I have not blogged before, so I thought I would start one about my boat.

We bought this boat in Sept of 2009. We have yet to take possession... that is a very long story and I guess I will get into parts of it in this blog.

This is out name, it comes from the fact that the boat was Designed by and named after a place in Scotland. Our ancestry is from Ireland, Scotland and England.

Highlands is where Grampian is.. its a Mountain Range. The Highland Fling is a dance.. and I think of sailing as being a bit of a dance. A fling is fun, and the point of this boat was to have a bit of a fling.

She was dirty, had been sitting for a while, but she was pretty complete, and there seemed like not too much structral work that needed to be done. One point I did not follow Don Casey in, this boat is not my goal boat, or have a special place in my heart. It is our step back into sailing, one we started as a family 7 years ago with a Tanzer 22.

The name we have done as shown, I have not applied it to the hull yet.