We are an amateur sailing team competing on a worldwide basis. Our home waters are in Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada, and our home club is the Port Credit Yacht Club in Mississauga, Ontario. We publish videos for the following reasons:
1. We seek to improve our performance through constant learning. As amateurs, we analyze the videos to understand what to improve
2. We wish to share with everyone just how much fun a Melges 32 is for Lake Ontario waters and hope that the videos will help grow the fleet
3. For recruiting: If you can see yourself fitting into our culture, please reach out!
What is our culture? Great question:
1. Safety first for you and the boat. This rule supersedes all rules
2. Have fun
3. Then and only then win.
We practice on Thursdays and Saturdays when we are not racing.
This is why we practice so much and use videos to improve our performance based on measurable facts.
Thank you for going to the trouble of making this video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Loved the slick crew work. Great little boat, obviously blew off the competition guess it was a handicap race hope you won. And, no horribly background music just the sound of the water and the wind in the sails, very refreshing, again thank you
There is nothing more invigorating than a well handled Squall! The team was smart and everything was taken care of in a hurry without panicking. Thank you for your comment and observations!
@@IamPreacherMan very good observation! we decided to put up the heavy sail, which we used once about two years ago. It is a much smaller and flatter sail. Frankly, had we raced, we would have been in trouble because she is under powered. But it proved to be the right sail when the squall hit. The maximum speed was 37 knots. Because this is club sailing, we do not want to use up - and potentially destroy - our beautiful new Quantums. if you listen to the chatter, you will notice that this jib is fully trimmed at the zero mark on the deck, whereas the medium and light need 5 to 7, which means this jib is a lot smaller. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We appreciate it.
Thank you for uploading this, I like this angle a lot more than the ones that are from bow to stern. Keep up with the good work! I like the team work there! Cheers to the crew!
Thank you! We provide all cameras since different people like different angles. That said, as a team we need all views since we use the video to analyze where to improve as a team. Do you live in Spain? If yes, muchas gracias por tu mensage.
Every moment of this was a joy got watch. Great crew - great racing video. Joanna Kidd, Alix McLaughlin and I were on a Shark in the QCYC race and it was sure blowing pretty good that day... It was sooo much fun until the 24:00 mark! Such a loss to have two 8 meter classics injured. I am grateful no one was injured.
Spin trimmer didn't let go of spin sheet at 18:30 waited until the count was down to 1... Let go of the spin sheet at 3, turn around and be prepared to take in new sheet... There was no release this night due to short of crew and jib up.
Notice the spin sheet off the back of the boat!!! Acts like a drogue at high speeds. That will not happen again. This is the only way to learn the limits of the Melges 32 (and our limits!)
