Tantivy, but it wasn’t long before she was far ahead of us and chasing Absolutely to the Toliva Shoal mark and beyond. First, second, and third in Class D went to Absolutely, Tantivy, and Great White. The wind held at about 20 knots as
boats reached the Toliva Shoal mark, rounded, and continued south. Most boats waited awhile before hoisting their spinnaker. About halfway to Balch Passage the wind decreased to about 4 knots and became shifty. Spinnakers drooped and fluttered. We pushed through though, and eventually an easterly filled in. Dave Knowlton, of Koosah, sumarized this part of the race. “After rounding, the spinnakers were hoisted and the cruisers went wing-on- wing. The current was now flooding and one could not ask for better conditions. The wind was tapering off. It held, however, and most boats had a winter sleigh ride back to the finish!” Koosah took second in the NFS Cruising Class, behind first place Balder. John Hoag sailed his Snake Eyes, a
Beneteau 40.7, to first in class and first place overall. “Everyone on our boat commented that this was by far the best Toliva Shoal race ever! We had the boat back to Des Moines by 9:00 pm. The Beneteau 40.7 is a great cruiser/racer and enjoyed the conditions of this year’s race. Our race plan was pretty simple this year as the currents were favorable
OA PL Boat
Class B 4 1 White Cloud 5 2 Jack Rabbit
Class C 1 1 Snake Eyes 13 2 Terremoto 23 3 Gardyloo
Class D 8 1 Absolutely 12 2 Tantivy
16 3 Great White 17 4 Flying Circus 18 5 Melange
Class E 2 1 Dos
27 2 Dragonfly dnf Gladiator
Sail#
Class A 1 Pax the Space Spider 12 2 Danger Zone
777
6 3 Wicked Wahine USA 125 9 4 Tachyon 11 5 Jam
Type F-32
Corsair F-27
8455 Cookson 12m 18193
CM 1200 Melges 32
36000 Farr 39 ML/RC 18
J-160
69696 Beneteau 40.7 59902
Riptide 35
25 4 Korina-Korina 25064 26 5 Silverheels
248
71221 Henderson 30 J/N 42
1005 Synergy 1000 40149 18320
69399 69261
20 6 Something Special 32589 26000 46778
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Express 37 J-35 J-35
Sierra 26 Rondar 21 Cheetah 30
Kiwi Boats J-109 J-35 1
John Hoag, summed up his boat’s philosophy of sailing... “If you make racing fun, success will come.”
“Snake Eyes,” first in class, first overall
and we had wind: Get a good start, stay in clear air, and stay in the positive current. One of the fun challenges of this race is the course. We utilized nearly our entire sail inventory to push the boat as hard as possible—the heavy #1, #2, #3, reaching heavy spinnaker, 3/4 runner. The crew was exhausted from all the sail changes, but I can tell you that it was a primary reason for our success. Our talented bowwoman, Kathy Watts, kept everyone focused during transitions and once again made us all look good. And for anyone that has raced with us knows, she makes the best sandwiches ever! Every race. We sailed the entire upwind race trading places with the well-sailed Melges 32, Wicked Wahine, with my long time friend Darrin Towe. They did an amazing job with that boat in that much wind and rounded the Toliva Buoy just ahead of us with Terremoto right behind us. We set the spinnaker fairly soon after rounding in some heavy 20+ knot wind. Within minutes the Melges was gone and Terremoto was planing by. We tried hard to stay in touch with Terremoto and
Class F 3 1 Kotuku
10 2 Dulcinea 15 3 Sidewinder 19 4 Lunch Box 21 4 He Lives
37 6 Blue Canary dnf Charlemagne dnf Wildflower
ocs Lightly Salted
Class G 7 1 Bodacious 14 2 French Kiss 22 3 White Squall
31 6 Liberty
Class H 29 1 Cherokee 30 2 Carpe Diem 34 3 Kaitlin 35 4 Duke
36 5 Pandora dnf Whisper
Class I 32 1 Swan
33 2 Showtime
28077 174
59718 69631 83179 74363 36528 69264
Farr 1220 J105
Olson 30 Olson 30 J-92
C&C 99 J-36
J-35 2
79089 Beneteau 10R 73392 Beneteau 35.5 XCal 40
87919 Beneteau 345 9678
24 4 Les Chevaux Blancs 79052 28 5 I-5
29456 39808 47914 39408 51496
28877
18633 Santa Cruz 33 64985
Beneteau C&C 35 Cal 33
Carter 32' 7" Ranger 32 Catalina 36 Cal 36
97560 87373 Newport 33 1008
T-Bird 26 Olson 25
had a great race with them all the way to the finish. Fortunately we benefitted by getting some running where our symmetrical spinnakers allowed us to sail deeper and pull away for our class win.” Crossing the line behind Snake Eyes was Terremoto in second and Gardyloo in third in class C. “White Cloud’s strategy was simple...
we just didn't execute it very well,” admitted Steve Johnson. We failed to get bow-out at the start, so we trailed Jack Rabbit all the way to Johnson Point, where they kindly popped a kite and sailed into a hole, then tried to collect marine samples on the takedown. We then continued to ignore good sailing strategy by not reading the Sailing Instructions and forgetting to go to the new mark off Nisqually, so we had to set a kite and run down to it, giving up all the time that Jack Rabbit had given us, and letting Tachyon catch up and Jam slide away. Apparently Snake Eyes, Dos, and Kotuku did some catching up, too. We didn't screw up too badly from there on in. Our major good moves came by not getting under the bluffs as we sailed through the islands—extra distance with speed paid off. Jack Rabbit got greedy and let us slip past and extend. Then our tactician, going against my poorer judgment, found some current rivers that helped out a great deal. The crew hit the jibes perfectly and stopped
38 3 Skookum Too 79088 39 4 Sugar Magnolia 69358 40 5 Falcon dns Jody V
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Class FS 1 Rival
2 Integrity 3 Ichi Ban 4 Vintage
5 Rushwind 6 Spiff
7 D'Lavicea dnf Klatawa
Class NFS 1 Balder 2 Koosah
3 Power Surge 4 Aeolian 5 Osa
6 Releaf
dnf Maranatha dnf Insouciant dnf Dance
69141 19200 46209
44
R33 260 172
Martin 241 S2 25' Cal 9.2 C&C 29
Cal 40 -1 Dufour 44 Yamaha 33 Ranger 33
40 Fast Passage 39 Ranger 26 Hunter Catalina
69227
37079 39458 29718
32997
dnf Endless Summer 554 dnf Promise dnf Sea Dog
39870 Ericson 38
39110 Pearson 36-1 3284 434
New Zealand Bavaria 37 Ranger
Pearson 30 Ranger 33
Hans Christian J-35
Catalina 320 Hunter 36 Catalina 27
results courtesy of So. Sound Sailing Soc./Olympia YC
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