Sloop Tavern Yacht Club

Blakely Rocks Benefit Race

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ind, sun, and fun combined to make the 30th Annual Sloop Tavern

Yacht Club Blakely Rock Benefit Race an excellent event on April 10! This year’s event drew 88 entries in 12 classes and has thus far raised over $8,000 for the Ballard Food Bank – and donations are still coming in! Volunteers from Sloop Tavern Yacht

Club and the Ballard Food Bank began arriving at 5:30 am to prepare and then serve the traditional BRBR blintz breakfast to over 100 breakfast patrons prior to the skippers meeting. Outside the Sloop, the day dawned with blue sky and a strong northerly. STYC member

Jonathan Li t t le p r o v i d e d h i s classic Chris Craft as committee boat again this year, and race officer volunteers from the Bellingham Yacht Club provided much appreciated assistance to STYC in running the race

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from Jonathan’s vessel. Racing began at 11:00 am. The West Point buoy recorded north wind at 15 knots at the start building to 24 knots in the afternoon. After a short beat to Meadow Point, the flooding tide and the strong breeze from

Above: Wind, sun and fun Blakely Rocks Benefit race an excellent race.

Below: The crew aboard “Bergen Viking” enjoying a fast and furious sail. Photos by Jan Anderson

the north provided racers with a fast run to Blakely Rock! A clock malfunction on the RC boat immediately prior to the scheduled start of Class 2 created a chain of events that eventually resulted in a restart of Class 2 and subsequent starts, but eventually all competitors were on there way to the Rock, and there were no reported intimate encounters with the Rock in this event! First to finish was Alan Vogt’s Blue

Fin. Next across the finish line was Rod Johnson’s Spirit Wind, which won NFS Class 1. Paul

McManus’ Sea Sea

Rider won NFS Class 2, and Bill Boyeson’s Jiminy won NFS Class 3 as well as first overall in the non- flying sails division and the NFS Roland Littlefield Church Performance Trophy, which is awarded to the boat that beats the next boat in class by the largest margin of corrected time. Kirk Fraser ’s

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