On Great White, we had spent most


of the race alone, but as we closed in on the Duwamish Head Light, suddenly numerous voices filled the bay and boats were seemingly everywhere - two were close enough to reach out and touch. Within two boat lengths of the mark, we were sandwiched between two boats. We couldn't come down and begin rounding the mark without hitting the boat to our port, which was forcing us to remain up. The boat to our starboard yelled for us to come down, coming within a foot or so of making contact, apparently unaware of the tight situation to our port. After rounding the Duwamish Head


mark, it was a drag race due west across the Sound to Blakely Rock. Some boats were sailing far north of the Rock. Others, like Lunch Box, turned down from us and setttled into a southern lane that brought them eye-squintingly close to Blakely Rock. Throughout this leg the wind was steady at about 6-8 knots southwesterly. The rounding at Blakely Rock was


uneventful. Boats were spread out all over the Sound. Some headed to the east shore. The wind lightened and became more southerly and quite shifty. It remained this way from the Rock to about Three Tree Point. Gardner-Brown’s


OA Cl Boat


Division A 1 Danger Zone 2 Blue Skyz 3 Ruf Duck


32 3 White Cloud 37 4 Madrona 47 5 Dark Star 48 6 Jam


52 7 Artemis 61 9 Jack Rabbit


Division C 10 1 Snake Eyes 12 2 Terremoto 15 3 Nefarious 19 4 Gardyloo


22 5 StringTheory 26 6 Eye Candy 35 7 Bravo Zulu 41 8 Kahuna


Division D 11 1 Melange 17 2 Absolutely 20 3 Grace E


Sail # 777


Division B 27 1 Wicked Wahine 125 28 2 Tachyon


Type


9835 Hammerhead 34 79112


Corsair F-27 Farrier 31 Melges 32


3600 Farr 39


8455 Cookson 12m 79067 9700 18


Custom 40 Beiker 44 J-160


97703 18193


Andrews 53 CM 1200


69696 Beneteau 40.7 59902 USA53


Riptide 35 Mumm 30


71221 Henderson 30 69087 39504 46720 35011


Olson 40 Farr 395 B-40 ID35


51 9 Korina-Korina 25064 69261


40149 40622


24 4 Something Spec 32589 48° NORTH, FEBRUARY 2011 PAGE 54


J/N 42 J-35


Kiwi Boats J-35 J-35


perspective from Dulcinea was shared by many. “From Blakely Rocks to the finish, who knows, the incoming tide was no help. The right hand side along Vashon was glass and wrong. The middle had cats paw wind indications, but turned out to be not good. The left hand side which looked like glass to us seemed to allow for huge gains with some boats able to use their spinnakers.” The close competition in Division D


kept the crew on their toes, particularly in this wind hole. Charlie Macaulay, of the G&S39 Absolutely, explained their tactics on this tricky and final, leg to the finish. “We stayed west early and then went east on a heading zephyr that was dying. We didn’t want to be stuck in the middle when the wind died completely, but were trying to protect the west because we thought that was where the new breeze would come from. When we got back east, the J/105 Tantivy was ahead, but we tacked to leeward of them, protecting the west. That worked out for us against Tantivy, but not so good against the two J/35s, Melange and Grace E. They protected farther west than us and got by us. Tantivy dug in even closer to shore and got caught in a couple of huge holes. Melange drove over us and we tacked to clear our air just


30 5 Tantivy 40 6 Jeopardy 43 7 Tantalus


45 8 ReignMaker 46 9 Great White 49 10 Liberte' 55 11 Mowica


Division E 18 1 DOS


25 2 Dragonfly 31 3 Brio


33 4 Gladiator


Division F 4 1 Wildflower 7 2 Sidewinder 8 3 Lunch Box 9 4 Here & Now 13 5 He Lives


14 6 Wild Turkey 23 7 Kotuku


58 10 Blue Canary 61 13 Charlemagne 61 13 Blue Moon


248 161


73399 69577 18320 79090 708


2600 131 26


46778 69264


59718 69631 31384 83179 30244 28077


29 8 Spec. Purpose 59592 39 9 Dulcinea


174


74363 36528 30148


Division G 2 1 Madame Pele 69914 5 2 French Kiss 6 3 Bodacious


J-109 J-109


Express 37 C&C 37/40 J-35


C&C 115


Jeanneau 45 Sierra 26


Rondar 21 Melges 24 Cheetah 30


J-35 C


Olson 30 Olson 30 J-29 J-92


Olson 30 Farr 1220 Olson 30 J-105


C&C 99 J-36


C&C 40 II Davidson 2


87919 Beneteau 345 73392 Beneteau 35.5


north of Three Tree Point. That put us to the west of Grace E and we picked them off, but Melange got their own private breeze along shore and jetted out about a quarter mile ahead. We then saw the wind filling relatively solidly from the south and decided to just cover the boats behind us and let Melange go. I think we got a bit closer, but they still finished comfortably ahead of us. We were second with Grace E behind us. Not sure where the rest of the fleet was at that point, but we got at least one boat between us and Tantivy, and that was the important thing for the series.” Bob King provided a thorough


overview of Class C on his Olson 40, String Theory. ”We had a seasoned crew onboard; a number of us had sailed the race over 20 times. Our race strategy divided the course into four legs; Des Moines to Alki, Alki to Duwamish Head, Duwamish to Blakely Rock, and to Finish. Our starting strategy was a "Vander- Powley", a timed downwind approach on port tack, with the intention of being at the pin at the gun. We were able to sneak across the line near the pin on port, immediately below some approaching starboard tack/jibe-set starters. Leg One strategy was to sail rhumb line, or, slightly to leeward thereof. We looked


16 4 Kiwi Express 21 5 White Squall


Division H 1 1 Giant Slayer 3 2 Cherokee 50 3 Teaser II


54 4 Carpe Diem 56 5 Duke


Division I 34 1 Showtime 36 2 Swan 38 3 Falcon


Division Cruising FS 1 Shadowfax 2 Ichi Ban 3 Rival


4 Integrity 5 Pyxis


6 Southern Belle


Division Cruising NFS 1 Koosah


2 Will o'Wind 3 Wild Goose


69147 9678


44 6 Les Chevaux Blancs 79052 59369


29456 20015 39808 39408


59604 28877


1008 68


42 4 Skookum Too 79088 53 5 Sugar Magnolia 69358 57 6 Seabiscuit


8


57904 46209 19200 44


156 40


Farr 1020 XCal 40


Beneteau SC 27


Cal 33 Cal 33


Carter 32


58 6 Blown Away II 97190 Beneteau 37.5 61 8 Perfect Ten


Catalina 36 Tartan 33 Olson 25


Thun 26 Cal 9.2


Martin 241 S2 25


Yankee 28 SC 27


Yamaha 33 Cal 40 -1 Dufour 44 Tartan 37


Beneteau 40


39110 Pearson 36-1 no #'s R 23


Catalina 37 Ranger 23


results courtesy of Three Tree Point YC


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