Olympia Y
&
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South Sound Sailing Society
Toliva Shoal
Toliva Shoal Blues
Well, I guess you really don’t need

any wind to hold a sailboat race. A
The sailing crowd was talking loud, tomorrow they would fl y.
while back, in Southern California,
No seas or rain would quench their fl ame, they hoped the wind was high. while honing my vast sailing skillset,
But as the sun began its run, no ripple graced the bay
you could almost always count on the
And the fl eet was appalled when the race was called, before they’d gone half way.
sea breeze starting to fi ll in by noon or
So the sailor caste sang tales of past, when Budd Bay heaved and rolled,
1:00 pm. As it built, the sea breeze would
And they promised again to be salty men, at next year’s Toliva Shoal.
generally trend to the right (except in

King Harbor where you would go left
by Rick Taylor, sailing on Terry Anderson’s “D’Lavicea“
to the oil slick then jog right). I grew up
a speed merchant, where boat speed
and going to the right corner meant the
whole race. Moving to the Northwest in
the early 80’s sure opened my eyes —
here, boat speed is good, but certainly
not everything. We came up with a good
saying after a couple of races, “you do
not want to be in the lead too soon”.
This years running of Toliva Shoals
race was the epitome of that learning
curve. Once again on Tachyon with
Shaun Breese and crew, we were milling
around before the start, and I cruised by
a good friend (and the best plumber in
the Northwest), Jay Rosenbach, and his
Beneteau 35s5, Bodacious. I asked him
with no wind to be seen, “so Jay, where
does one go?” he politely answered,
“well the fresh water rushes down the
east shore”.
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