August 26, 2013
Xoomer Xpress winners of IRC 1 this weekend at EYC!! Woohoo! It was a tricky weekend of racing in ultra light winds in Humber Bay, but our race committee pulled it off and we actually got three races in. We’ve got an awesome team on Xoomer. I’m going to miss you guys this fall, but I’ll be thinking of you every time I drag my butt out to the bow of the mini wishing I was fully crewed! hahahah 🙂
August 21, 2013
One thing is for sure…. I am grateful for this but NEVER want to use it!! is going to make sure we have the “emergency survival food rations” needed for the race and that my immersion suit is tested and “good to go”.
Thanks to the team at Inland! 
August 20, 2013
53 days to the start of the Mini Transat race and 12 days until I go back to France to finish getting the OGOC ready! Woohooo!
Diane
August 16, 2013
This weekend is a weekend to give back to the sailing community and my club ABYC that have supported me so much. I’ll be on Mark boat 2 for the Beneteau 36.7 and First 10R Regatta…..doing what I’m told! 🙂 See you there! PS, I’ll have tickets with me if you haven’t got yours yet!
Diane
August 12, 2013
20 days until I go back to France for the 2013 Mini Transat race! Buy your ticket for our $5,000 trip before your chance runs out on September 1st. Just click on our website and donate $100…you’ll be in for the draw and you’ll be supporting the first Canadian woman ever to qualify for this amazing race!
http://www.onegirlsoceanchallenge.com/
August 5, 2013
Win a trip for $5,000! Purchase a $100 ticket to get in on the 1 in 200 chance of winning a $5,000 travel voucher with Goway Travel. Just click on the donate button on the OGOC website and donate $100 and you’re all set. Know that you’ll be supporting Canada’s first woman to qualify for the Mini Transat race of 4,000nautical miles solo across the Atlantic ocean. Thanks for your support! The draw will be held September 2, 2013
Diane
August 5, 2013
This year’s LYRA was one of the toughest over the past few years. The competition in IRC 1 was Tuff to say the least. Added to that the wind Gods were particularly crafty over the first two days. We may not have hit the podium this time on Xoomer, but we’re proud to have gone down fighting against some great competition! We’ll be back fighting again at EYC in a few weeks!
Diane
August 2, 2013
Here comes LYRA! Course racing starts today for this annual three day racing bonanza. On Xoomer Xpress we’re all psyched to go and kick some butt….pending rain and thunderstorms. Fortunately Xoomer (our X35) is all back together after our “earth shattering kaboom” in the last event. Turns out our mast step crushed and that’s why the rig slackened….slightly! All back together again and ready to go 🙂
Diane
July 28, 2013
Wow!!! What an exciting and tuff tuff race! After 6 days of fog, rain, more fog, more rain, hi winds, no winds, freezing temperatures and WAY too many bags of freeze dried food, Jean Francois and I crossed the finish line in second place on Antidote. We spent almost two hours drifting back and forth within a half mile of the finish line and with absolutely no wind, but around 10:00pm we finally were able to cross and get our gun. Stay tuned for the full report of the race of our stories of hi wind spinnaker take downs, crazy fish following us and even a moment of emergency repair to our starboard rudder. In the meantime we have a boat to clean up, clothes to wash and real food to eat! AND, if we are very very good and get our chores done, we might get a chance to go see George Leblanc’s Open 60 that just crossed the finish line! Thanks to George for being the founder of our Rimouski race!
All in all though, a well earned second place finish for Jean Francois’ first long distance short handed race! Bravo Jean Francois! 🙂
Diane
July 21, 2013
The starts today! You can follow the four minis on our spot tracker. I am very thankful to my co-skipper for letting me come and play on his zero for the race! Jean Francois and I will be onboard Antidote, pressing all the way through the 650 miles to the finish line. The routing is set, the sails and food are packed, and with the exception of one small little problem, we’re ready to go. Unfortunately after many years of slow but steady corrosion, our anemometer has finally given up. The tiny little wires inside are completely broken. Poor thing has served it’s life and then some! That means that for this race, we have no apparent wind angles. We also will have no wind screen to watch at night to see the wind angles. No problem….we’ll do it old school style! 🙂
Diane
