So goes another great piece of local
knowledge advice.
At the start of our class B and class
C, it looked like there was a little carpet
of wind over on the western shore. Now
I have sailed just enough in Budd Inlet
to know what kind of a sucker punch
that can be, but given the alternative of
complete glass over the rest of the Inlet,
suckers go for it. The only boats in our
start that I can remember not going west,
were Jon Knudson’s venerable Joubert
Nivelt 2 tonner Korina Korina (okay, now
you know how old I am if I can spell those
designers) and Steve Kirkpatrick’s J-92
He Lives, the overall winner. Steve had a
very pretty, single purpose gennaker that
looks like it worked like a champ. These
guys worked the eastern shore hard right
Previous page top: Doffl myer Point makes
it easy to view a sailboat race up close.
Lower: “Which way do I go, which way do
I go?”
This page top: At least “Fast Company”
and “The Rufduck”, were looking good!
Center: Mark Brink’s “Ladybug” (fi rst in
Division G ) passes Brian White's J-35
“Grace E” in Division D.
Below: James Lengenfelder’s “String
Games” and Roger Shaffer‘s “Boru”
working the situation as best they can.
photos by Jan Anderson
from the start... the rest of us, well we
really liked the tour of Budd Inlet.
Once the fl eet fi nally capitulated
to the eastern shore the race was pretty
much over for fi rst place in most of
the classes. The larger boats like John
McPhail’s J-160 Jam and Artemis, Lou
Bianco’s Andrews 53 unfortunately
could not get unstuck from the light
air. At one point Mark Brink on Ladybug
almost passed Artemis boat for boat.
Gladiator, the Cheetah 30, with it being
a mostly downwind race, was launched
pretty good and ended up second
overall.
But getting back to my point, we
onboard Tachyon had quite a bit to catch
Chet Hibbert’s CM 1200 Jack Rabbit. They
grabbed a pretty good head start and
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