Lowtide
Crew of “Bottoms Up” getting
Jan Place’s bottom up at the 80’s
sailors get together. Left-Right:
Debbie Yeend, Jan Salisberry Speer,
Vickie Seznick, Mary Carey Thornton,
Lynne McNulty, Laura Englestad,
Barb Grande Dougherty, Lori Smith,
and hoisted Jan Place.
80’s Racers Gather at CYC Seattle
Lady bug, Meridian, Night Runner, Northwest, a very fun crew of mostly longer with us, but their presence was
Porky’s Diner, Flying Machine, Thunder women. there in the many anecdotes and sea
Chicken and Katrinka Finkelsplatt? If “It was such a fun time, with such a stories. One favorite sailor of all was
these names sound familiar, then you great bunch of people, I thought it would Kelly O’Neil, who was tragically lost
were probably out racing on Puget be fun to get everyone together.” says five years ago. A sailing photographer
Sound during the ‘80s. It was a fun Jan. “We’d been talking about it for quite and a vibrant force in the Seattle sailing
time; boats with pinchy sterns, new a while and finally just decided to go for world, her legacy lives on in the many
boats they couldn’t figure out what to it.” She sent out some emails and was images she captured over the years.
do with called ultra-lights, raingear surprised at all the enthusiastic replies. A slide show of Kelly’s shots drew a
that was just as wet inside as out and “I got so many responses that we crowd, with people constantly turning
no GPS. needed to get a larger place to hold the to each other and pointing fingers at
Boats were becoming lighter and party, so we moved it to Corinthian the pictures as their various boats came
one way to compensate during blustery Yacht Club at Shilshole.” up.
days was to add rail meat,“ or more With word of mouth and a mention 48° North provided door prizes,
properly, “moveable ballast.” J-29’s in 48° North, the word got out and on with the most coveted being an original
were a hot boat and a crew of 10 was Friday night, May 8, the clubhouse was Duck Dodge Poster from 1987, with the
not out of the ordinary. One such boat filled with memories, great stories, a lot corresponding issue of 48° North when
was Jan Place’s Bottom’s Up. They raced of laughter and not a few gray hairs. it appeared on the cover. It was won
everywhere and everything in the A few of the era’s sailors are no by an ecstatic Lori Smith, who was
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