“Kiwi Express” (left) and “First Edition” (right) duking it out in Division P8.
creamery. For spectators, the village of Coupeville offers a perfect view of Penn Cove and the race course. The remaining boats decided to have a little fun. PeTeron, Dan Kaseler’s Melges 24, sailed about the cove backwards with their spinnaker rigged to the stern. As they jibed seamlessly in the light westerly breeze, it was clear that they had had some practice with this maneuver. Steve Johnson and David Lynch’s White Cloud hoisted three of their spinnakers all at once and sailed west on a light easterly breeze. The rest of us sat and watched the mayhem. The common theme of everyone’s
Nancy added, “that serving on the race committee helps improve our racing and might be the quickest way to learn the rules, Sailing Instructions and how to, or not to, start.” Running an average thirty-three starts each day the CYC performed an exceptional job. Day four was the week’s wet and
wild day. The dueling Sierra 26s with Paul Faget’s Uno & Brad Butler’s Dos spent the week duking it out for first place in their fleet. By the end of the day Uno would take first by only two points. Heather Sloat aboard Jack Rabbit, recalled that her days experience racing was such that “even though the sun
3 Mikey
4 Fast Forward Melges 24 5 Blue Moon 6 Nauti Girl
Melges 24 Melges 24
7 Wiggle Room Melges 24 8 Gravy
9 Traveling Circus Melges 24 10 Distraction 11 Cool Beans
Melges 24 Melges 24 Melges 24
Melges 24
P4 Fleet 1 Blue Dune Buggy SC27 2 Gotcha
3 Wild Rumpus SC27 Stephanie Schwenk 4 Hanalei 5t Sumo
SC27 SC27
6 Saltheart Foam SC27 7 GiantSlayer 8 Don Quixote 9 Vitesse 10 Ol' Yeller
SC27 SC27
SC27 SC27
11 Cookie Monster SC27 12 Shadowfax 13 Rocinante
13 Variety Show
P5 Fleet 1 Delirium
2 Last Tango
Kevin Welch Darrin Towe Paul Bennett B&T Bradley Chris Johnson Tom Norris Kyle Hintze
Tom Greetham Erik Mann
Alex Simanis Joseph Hagen
Rob Schuyler Jim Livingston Jeff Rodenberger David Garman Craig Smith Bart Goodell
SC27 Christa Bassett Ross Chuck Tidrington
SC27 James Thaidigsman SC27 SC27
Warren Pelz Barry Whittall
J-105 J-105
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Jerry Diercks Jim Geros
wasn’t shining, the fun factor superseded the sun factor.” While most of the fleet raced three races within Penn Cove on day four, the SC 27 fleet raced a 15nm distance race to Rocky Point as part of their Nationals. Adding a distance race to the mix proved to be a unique challenge for the fleet. WIRW often has one day of no wind
where the fleet drifts about waiting for an afternoon westerly to build. Day five would be our idle day. Since “race week” would be incomplete without a visit to the Queen Anne village of Coupeville, many took the opportunity to dock and get an ice-cream cone from the local
3 Allegro Vivace J-105 4 Dulcinea
P6 Fleet 1 Crazy Ivan 2 Go Fish 3 Taj Mahal
4 Skye Rocket 5 Litonya
P7 Fleet 1 Dos 2 Uno
3 Bad Dog 7 Gonzo
J-80 J-80 J-80 J-80
6 Fearful Symmetry J-80
Sierra 26 Sierra 26 Antrim 27
Viper 640 Viper 640
Lorenzo Migliorini
J-105 M. Gardner-Brown J-80
Chris White Jerry Judd
David Schutte
William McKinnon Marc Noel Chip Ewert
Paul Faget Brad Butler
4 So Lk Union Trolley Rocket 22 Marty Hendon 5 Dragonfly 6 KAA
Rocket 22
J-29 J-29
Brad Terpstra Rafe Beswick
Stephen Orsini
8 Redfish Bluefish Rocket 22 Johnathan Little 9 Barrel of Monkeys Viper 640 10 Subatomic
Viper 640 Kyle Reese-Cassal Scott Ellis
Chris Lloyd
11 Wild Cherry Laser SB3 P8 Fleet 1 Here & Now 2 Slick
3 Xcentric Hotfoot 31 Pat Denny
Nelson/ Mayfield Gay Morris
4 Kiwi Express Farr 1020 Reinhard Freywald 5 First Edition Humbolt 30
Rob Alexander
experience was summed up well by Mikki Pieruccioni, bow gal aboard Eric Nelson’s Henderson 30 Gardyloo, who said that “the incredible camaraderie on and off the water is a true testament of the close bond that all sailing enthusiast share.” Gary Stuntz added that coordinating WIRW is a lot like “a year’s worth of work that ends up being a party for 1,000 of your best sailing friends.” As we gathered one last time for the week’s awards we all felt rewarded with a week sailed well. Having sailed the best was Charlie Macaulay’s Absolutely, who earned the title of first overall for WIRW.
48N
P9 Fleet 1 Raindrop
2 Blue Martini Olson 911 3 Bodacious 4 Symbiosis 5 Kowloon 6 Rubicon 7 Yeah Baby 8 Mata Hari 9 Jasmina 10 Imzadi
S2 9.1 S2 9.1
11 Slingshot
P10 Fleet 1 Yeah Dogg 2 Asta
Olson 25 Olson 25
3 Sugar Magnolia S2 7.9 4 Skookum Too Martin 242 5 Lucky Jim 6 Bob
J-24 Martin 242
P11 Fleet 1 Skamokawa San Juan 24
5 Little Blackie 6 Alert
San Juan 24 US-25
Santana 20
Cascade 36 Beneteau Olson 911 S2 9.1
Joby Easton Laney Gale
J Rosenbach
Lance Staughton Ken Chin
Marshel/Olson Mike Pitarresi
Catalina 36 Paul Walchenbach Santana 30/30 Frank Rodgers Laser 28 J/30
Doug Ullmer Grady Morgan
Chad Holcomb Chris Murschel Scott Awalt
George Brown Jim McAlpine Steve Weir
2 Magic Juan San Juan 24 Shannon Buys 3 Jumping Black Flash Santana 525 4 Wiki Wiki
Mitch Rinella Dave Hayes
Steve Felton Tom Black
Brad Blymyer results courtesy of
whidbeyislandraceweek.com
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