we were going the direction we wanted to go. We were one of the first boats in our division to the Spieden side, then reached up the shore with our ½ oz. chute. Here and Now did the end around inside of us, and there were lots of boats way outside, but just not going anywhere with more wind, but adverse current.” Kotuku rounded Turn
Point with about two feet of water under our keel, then watched Jack Rabbit cut inside us doing maybe 9 knots. And stopping quickly. The sound — it was memorable.” Through Boundary
Pass, boats were sailing both the Canadian and American sides as well as right up the middle. Before the halfway point, Gary recalled, “there was a big current line, and when most people hit it, they gybed in to the Canadian shore, but we couldn’t see the reason for that so we kept on going. We gained probably ten minutes on Corvo. We were running with Martha. This huge 100-year-old wood boat with thousands of square feet of sail up. It looked like they had two chutes up, and yards and yards of white sails!” Farther on up the road, Ben Braden
Pl OA Boat
Division: M 1 17 Makika
2 47 Blue Lightning 3 49 Freda Mae 4 50 RufDuck 5 63 LightSpeed
Division: X 1 1 Icon
2 2 Madrona 3 3 Flash
4 4 Paradigm 5 5 Tachyon
6 6 White Cloud 7 7 Neptunes Car 8 8 Strider 9 9 Dark Star 10 10 Velos
11 14 Voodoo Child 12 22 Lawndart 13 23 Artemis
14 29 Jack Rabbit 15 52 JOSS
Division: 0 1 12 My Tai
2 18 Sly D Away 3 24 BRAVO ZULU
Skipper Jude Stoller
Gumley & none Vincent Depillis Linda Adams David Kane
Kevin Welch Carl Buchan Steve Travis Gavin Pearce Shaun Breese
Lynch & Johnson Paul Lamarche David Pickett
Jonathan McKee
Hestehave & Gilbert Brian Duchin William Allan Louis Bianco
Hibbert & White Stout & Spriggs
Daryl Homan Stroble & Poire Denny Vaughan
observed that “White Cloud and Madrona finished up a tight reaching battle to be first around the lighthouse by high- centering White Cloud on a rock near the lighthouse.” As with Jack Rabbit, she was quickly off the rocks and continued with the race. Once through Boundary Pass, the
next question was, “How far east do we go?” Again, boats tried it all. Gary Morgan, who was racing his first Round the County, listened when his veteran crew, mostly from Orcas Island, advised him to stay on the Sucia (west) side. “We passed Karma at that point as they came
4 27 Teddy Bear 5 28 Time Bandit 6 31 Carrera
7 39 Pegasus XIV 8 44 Tinette
9 45 5th Season 10 51 Nefarious 11 72 MAD MAX
Division: I 1 11 Kotuku
2 13 Astral Plane 3 15 Illusionist 4 20 Vitesse 5 32 Marayui 6 33 Zulu
7 37 Cinco De Mayo 8 48 Tantrum Ii 9 58 Tantalus
10 65 Reign Maker 11 62 Kipper Kite
Gray Hawken Bob Brunius
Simon Walmsley Dan Newland Lynn Adkins Jay Platt
Daniel Randolph
Micah van der Heide Graeme Esarey
Adam Korbin David Maclean David Steffen Astolfo Rueda
A.findlay Gibbons John Peterson
Robert Hennessy Ole Hovland Geoff Pentz
David Spencer
12 68 ALLONS-Y Richardson & Sleitholme Division: II 1 16 What? A Tripp! Morgan & Wareham 2 21 Karma
3 25 Shockwave 4 26 Hravn 5 34 Muffin
Shorett & Burzycki Mike Kirkland Todd Koetje Garry Greth
“Tachyon,” “Artemis” and “Madrona” coming down Rosario Straits, looking for wind... without the adverse current.
over from the other side. We covered them going towards the Pea Pods, as we figured we were the two lead boats in our class, and we rate even. But as we turned the corner into the Pea Pods, we saw the shore lined with boats not going very fast and a bit more wind outside. Our navigator and the Orcas boys all said, Don't go in there, it doesn't pay off. So we stayed out til we got to the layline to the rocks and tacked over onto port. A bit further on we crossed Teddy Bear, Tachyon, Voodoo Child, and a bunch of other, much faster, boats, and Karma was way behind. We felt pretty good about the
outcome of that little maneuver. And Ian was ecstatic about beating his sister on Time Bandit. We crossed tacks with those boats for a bit, going to the finish line. We ended up beating a few of the Division 0 boats and almost all the Division 1 boats over the line!” Thanks to Orcas Island Yacht Club
and Friday Harbor Sailing Club for hosting another outstanding Round the County, and to Anacortes Yacht Club for the rockin' pre-race party. Thank you to those who shared your stories about the race.
— by Peggy Johnson photos by Jan Anderson
6 35 Pangaea 7 36 Corvo
8 38 Crazy Ivan 9 40 Por Favor 10 41 Ragtime 11 42 Incisor 12 46 Pulelehua 13 57 Dreamtime
14 60 Skookumchuck 15 66 Passepartout 16 69 Here And Now
Madenwald & Madenwald Tom Kerr
Chris White John Denny Paul Watson
Currie & Wilson Selting & Wallis
Galbraith & Galbraith Mund & Skubi Peter Shainin
Denney & rawls
17 71 Madame Pele Andrewes & Andrewes Division: III 1 19 Wild Rumpus Schwenk & Schwenk 2 30 Flying Circus 3 43 Blackfoot 4 53 Celebration 5 54 Duke 6 55 Martha 7 56 Seeker
Eric Yaremko Mike Corcoran Jim Bottles
Baker & Baker Robert Darcy Ken Greff
8 59 Tir Na Nog 9 61 Freeflyte 10 64 Izarra
11 67 Soul Food 12 70 Sol Pacifico
Fraser & Fraser Jonathan Cruse Andrew Harvilla Pamela Mickelwait Randall Barnes
results courtesy of Orcas Island Yacht Club and the Friday Harbor Sailing Club
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