all the way. Steve related, “We got by them in one light spot at the bottom of the Island and were able to stay barely ahead of them on the beat all the way back—close racing. The boats are similar, but different, which makes concentration critical—can’t miss anything or the other boat takes advantage!” Flash went on to win first, followed by Wasabi just 99 seconds later. Artemis took third. Predictably, the south end of Vashon
Island was a spot for the great exchange of positions. Don Wills described how Shoot the Moon, his Peterson 40 IOR 2-Tonner, sailed all the way acoss the bottom of Vashon Island, “sometimes faster and sometimes slower, sailing in fairly good wind until we reached the Tallequah ferry landing. Tantivy had moved up and inside of Shoot The Moon but then gybed back down to the south of us. Absolutely went along the Vashon shore, and we hung in the middle and found a short lived hole. Darby sailed the longer southern route and came out very well positioned to take the lead up Colvos Passage. We finally got moving and were 5th into Colvos barely ahead of What? A Tripp! By now we had hoisted the heavy #1 and were moving west to the shore. On our first tack, we fouled the sheets and What? A Tripp! passed us. The duel up Colvos was epic with boats crossing, gaining, falling back and then gaining again.” At the north end of the Island,
the wind continued to build, reaching 18-22 knots. The boats of Class 3 were deciding when to cross the Sound. Some
CL Boat
1 Class 1 Flash
2 Wasabi 3 Icon
4 Artemis 5 Strider
2 Class 1 Eye Candy 2 Tachyon 3 Madrona 4 Banshee
5 Jack Rabbit 6 Skededel
6 Neptune's Car 7 Dark Star
Type OD 48 Andrews 53 Skipper PI VI
Kernan 44 Greg Slyngstad 3 2 Perry 66
Lou Bianco 4 3
N/M 55 David Pickett 5 4 SC 70 Paul LaMarche 6 5 Riptide 44 Jonathan McKee dnf dnc
Farr 395 Custom 40 7 Gardyloo Henderson 30
3 Class 1 Shoot The Moon IOR 2 Ton 2 Absolutely 3 Darby
James Marta 2 1
Farr 395 Shaun Breese 1 4 Carl Buchan dnc 2
Melges 32 Derek Campbell dnc 3 CM1200 Chester Hibbert dnf 5 J-130
Irvine Alpert 3 7 Eric Nelson dnf 6
Don Wills 1 2
G &S 39 Charlie Macaulay 2 5 C & C 121 Steven Tuck 4 3
Steve Travis 2 1 Kevin Welch 1 dns
The ugly ducking of sailboats? He needs to learn to play nice with others. Photo by Jan Anderson.
“The duel up Colvos was epic with boats crossing, gaining, falling back and then gaining again.”
Don Wills, “Shoot the Moon”
went earlier towards Alki, while others continued on a northerly course towards Restoration Point. Don continued, ”From Restoration, all of us tacked and headed east towards Elliott Bay, Tantivy leading the way. By the time we had made it across, Absolutely was still ahead of us and going north.... We were all close- hauled and moving smartly up the beach under Magnolia. About here, the wind picked up into the low 20’s and Absolutely and Tantivy moved off ahead of Shoot The Moon. We went to change down to our #3
4 Izakaya 5 What? A Tripp! Petr 37
Dash 34 Iain Christenson dnc 1 Morgan/Yob 3 6
6 First Light Bene First 47.7 Dorr Anderson dnc 4 7 Tantivy 8 Mowica 9 Cariad
Jeaneau 45p John Murkowski 6 dnc Valiant 42
10 Good As Gold SoPac 42 Patrick Colletti dnf dnc 5 Class 1 Allegro Vivace 2 Lunch Box 3 Corvo 4 Dos
J-105 Sierra 26 5 Sidewinder
8 Last Tango 9 Vigilant
6 Diff Drummer Wauq 40s 7 Delirium
J-105 J-105
Olson 30 Joshua Larsen 2 5 J-33
Paul Faget 1 9
Olson 30 B & M Jones 3 7 Charles Hill 10 1 Jerry Diercks 9 4 Jim Geros 7 8
10 R. J. Squirrel Swan 39 Chris Otorowski 6 dnc 11 Pegasus 12 Beltane 12 Pegasus
Navy 44 Jonathan Chitwood dnc 6 Soverel 33 Johnson & Brooks 8 10 Chris Murray dnc dns
Dehler 39 Ken MacDonald d dnc dnf J-105
L. Migliorini 5 2 Tom Kerr 4 3
J-109 Stuart M Burnell 5 7 Alex Weinert dnc 8
but had problems with the forestay track so ended up sailing the entire upwind race with our heavy #1.” Although Shoot the Moon never saw Izakaya, a Dash 34, she clearly sailed a very strong race and went on to win first in Class 3, followed by Shoot the Moon in second, and Darby, a C&C 121, in third. In Class 2, Jim Marta described
the race aboard his Farr 395 Eye Candy. There was “a northwesterly shift for the last several hours of the race, making it very competitive. Eye Candy had decent boat speed all day long with very few errors; however, we kept our eyes on Madrona, Tachyon, and Jack Rabbit the entire time.” The day turned around from the
meager and wet forecast to a wonderful sail in the great Pacific Northwest. by Peggy Johnson
6 Class 1 Rubicon
2 Penetration 3 Xcentric
4 Magic Button 5 White Squall 6 Kaizen
9 Class 1 Jiminy 2 Puffin
0 Class 1 Runaway 2 Magician 3 Mata Hari
Hotfoot 31 XCal 40
7 Kiwi Express Farr 1020 8 Kowloon
Bavaria 38
3 Taking Stock Bene 1st 405 4 Starbird 5 Calypso
Norlin34 Catalina 30 4 Quorum Beneteau 1st 305
Impulse 26 Olson 911 J-42
S2 9.1 Marshel Melvyn 4 1 SJ34 Liffring/Johnson 1 5 Morris/Brady 7 2
Cal-39 Jim Hewitson 3 6 Roger Deitz 5 4 Bob Rinker 2 dnc R. Freywald 8 3 Ken Chin 6 7
Bill Boyeson 1 1 Jim Medley 4 2 Tony Flock 2 5
Dehler 41DS Mike Milburn 3 4 C&C 43 Martin DeYoung 5 3
Phil Calvert 3 1 Brian Berg 2 2
Catalina 36 P Walchenbach 1 4 David Field dnf 3
results courtesy of Seattle Yacht Club 48° NORTH, JUNE 2011 PAGE 71
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