Night Race at Etobicoke Yacht Club

Google Earth with Course and our GPS Track

I crewed on Ron Ander's C&C 29 Mk2 boat ALCHEMIST in a 10 nm race from the EYC Race Mark #8 to the Gibraltar Point TE18 Red Buoy, then an offset to the Mo(A) T Fairway buoy and return to EYC.

Winds were 12 to 15 Kts from the East and waves had been diminishing from  visible whitecaps to make for a fairly comfortable upwind leg. Downwind the spinnaker was used from just before the Morse A buoy to the Gybe before the Finish. Temperature was somewhat balmy and cooling. Skies were clear, some stars were visible in the twilight.

At first our tack was towards shore until deemed less favourable than going onto the Lake - this brought us on a much better course to the mark after tacking.

Saw a few boats on the water - but became much harder to see at night against the lights of the City. Duration of the race was about 2.5 hours done entirely in the dark.

ALCHEMIST ended up finishing 3rd in its Division on elapsed and corrected time.

OpenCPN Chart with our GPS Track