Seattle Yacht Club Star & Bar


Top: Puget Sound was graced once again on the last weekend of the summer with sun, wind and good sailing.


Below: David Pickett’s NM 55 “Strider,” stretching her legs.


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Happy sailors onboard “Last Tango.”


Lower next page: The Moore 24's showing off their style.


Photos by Jan Anderson.


dozens of fine yachts and their crews competing in the Seattle Yacht Club Star & Bar Regatta. The race format was buoy courses north of Meadow Point, with several PHRF handicap classes and Moore 24 and J-105 one design classes. The early forecast was light winds and rain which turned out to be wrong, at least in that particular combination. On Saturday morning the skippers


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enjoyed Top Pot coffee and donuts at the skipper’s meeting at the Shilshole clubhouse generously made available by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle (while an SYC event, the two clubs often work together to serve our greater boating community). Once the start sequences were underway, the nice southerly died to a whisper, of course,


1 Class 1 Jack Rabbit 2 Tachyon


3 Eye Candy 4 Strider


CM-1200 Chester Hibbert Farr 39


Farr 395 N/M 55


5 Voodoo Child Farr 39ML J-109


Shaun Breese Jim Marta


David Pickett Brian Duchin


6 Stomp Dancer Melges 30 Andrew Haputa 2 Class 1 Illusionist 2 J-Tripper 3 il Falco 4 Tantivy


David MacLean


J-109 D R Dack / Nordquist Express 37 Cory Anderson J-109


Stuart Burnell


5 Absolutely 6 Nefarious 7 Bravo Zulu


G & S 39 Charlie Macaulay Farr 30


First 40.7 Denny Vaughan 48° NORTH, OCTOBER 2010 PAGE 44 Daniel Randolph


and veered. The race committee chose to quickly get in a couple marginally “good enough,” once-around races before the wind died completely, maybe for the weekend. So no rain, but not a lot of wind either. The fleet got back to the CYC clubhouse in the mid afternoon


8 Uno 9 Shada


Sierra 26 J-109


3 Class 1 Shoot The Moon 2 tonner 2 Sidewinder 3 Kotuku 4 Pegasus 5 Beltane


J-105 J-105 J-105


Brad Butler


Jerry Woodfield Donald Wills


Olson 30 Brad&Mike Jones Farr 1220 Graeme Esarey Soverel 33 Johnson/Brooks Dehler 39 Ken Macdonald


6 What? A Tripp! Peterson 37 Morgan/Yob 4 Class 1 Last Tango 2 Jubilee 3 Delirium 4 Dulcinea 5 Pegasus


John Peterson Erik Kristen Jerry Diercks


J-105 M. Gardner-Brown J-105 Christopher Murray


just in time for beer, wine, free pop, and all the included Pagliacci pizza they could eat. Sunday turned out to be windy - and


rainy... still not light and rainy! Racers got in three twice-arounds and one once-around, to their exhausted relief,


5 Class 1 Gaucho


2 Blue Martini


5 Kowloon 6 Rubicon


Ross 930 Olson 911


3 Arturo the Aqua Boy S2 7.9 4 Wings


J-29


Olson 911 S2 9.1


John Cahill Laney Gale


Daniel Westra Jim Moynihan Y Ken Chin Mel Marshel


7 Kiwi Express Farr 1020 Reinhard Freywald 8 Izakaya


Dash 34 Iain Christenson


Moore 24 Class 1 More Uff Da Moore 24 Benjamin Braden 2 More Cowbell! Moore 24 Kathryn Meyer 3 Morjito 4 Sputnik


Moore 24 Doug Archbald Moore 24 Jacob Kennedy


5 Freckle...Madtom Moore 24 Anthony DeVita


uget Sound was graced once again on the last weekend of the summer with


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