Maple Bay Yacht Club Labour Day Regatta September 2-4
The Maple Bay Yacht Club (MBYC)
is proud to announce the hosting of the 55th Annual Labour Day Regatta. This long-standing end of summer “Round- the-Bouys” racing for keelboats and dinghies in picturesque Maple Bay on southeastern Vancouver Island. There are approximately 10 international and local regattas throughout the summer starting with the Round Thetis Island in May and ending with the Labour Day Regatta in September. The annual event welcomes sailors from across both sides of the Strait and from across the border to join in great racing, sportsmanship and camaraderie. The regatta is will host the Don Taylor Cup for the big boat “Ultra Class”. Good food is planned again this year, including the infamous steak and salmon BBQ, Commodore‘s breakfasts, margarita party and 50’s dance on the Saturday evening. For more information, go to
www.mbyc.bc.ca
Bellingham Yacht Club PITCH Regatta September 3-5
In its 38th year, PITCH 2011 is
a Grand Prix and 48° North Top 25 qualifying regatta and will offer PHRF and One Design Class racing, the Kelly O’Neil Cup for club team performance, free moorage and camping, delivery and cruising gear storage, free Dead Pirate burgers and beer at the Friday Skipper’s meeting, free hoist use and much, much, more. Details and NOR at
www.BYC.org
STYC Jack and Jill Race September 11
The Sloop Tavern Yacht Club invites
you and your Jack or Jill. This race will start at 11:00 am and the course includes the Spring Beach, West Point, and Meadow Point buoys. For more information, please see:
www.styc.org
Hood River Yacht Club Double Damned I had heard stories of the Doubled
Damned. Common to each story was the unique combination of comments like “gear buster” and “then I went swimming.” As I approached the town of Cascade Locks, Oregon, the starting point of the race, I found myself recalling these stories and brimmed with anticipation as I watched the white capped Columbia River roll by. On the radio, the local DJ welcomed us to the Gorge and informed others on the river that they would have company. In it’s forth year, the Double
Damned race hosted by the Hood River Yacht Club (HRYC) and set in the breathtaking Columbia River Gorge offered a downwind ride like no other and one definitely not for the faint of heart. This year a record 22 sailboats were on hand to race the 41 miles downwind from the Cascade Locks to The Dalles. Aboard David Garman’s Santa
Cruz 27 Giant Slayer we approach the starting area, framed by the Bridge of the Gods and steep evergreen mountains. With the sound of the start horn and winds in the 20’s to 30’s we set the spinnaker and were off. As we ran our way upriver playing the rivers edge was critical to avoid the strong currents. To maintain good position on the fleet we sailed higher boat angles and needed to gybe regularly as we approached the shallow rocky edges. Each gybe was a calculated gamble. One mistake and you were guaranteed to go swimming. After our first round-up I found myself very wet, but invigorated. Rounding up or down soon become common place. As the race progressed the carnage
ensued. Matt McQueen was ejected from his Moore 24 Nuclear Power and went swimming as his boat sailed on. Dan Kaseler aboard his Melges 24 Pteron would need to find creative ways to keep his kite flying and would come close to beating the course record. William Erkelens on his Wabbit named Jack would lose his rig early in the race. On Giant Slayer we rounded down so hard at Wind Mountain that we snapped our carbon Spinnaker pole clean in half amidst a strong down burst. Shredded
spinnakers, snapped halyards and broken poles were a common result of the day. As the wind increased, most of fleet
went to headsails and sailed the rest of the race wing-on-wing. As we continued to make our way upriver past “swell city” and the kite boarding/wind surfing mecca of Hood River, I was amazed at the change in landscape. From lush evergreen hills, the shore slowly changed to a golden brown desert strewn with craggy cliffs of basalt rock. We kept an eye out for boarders and the occasional barge as we surfed the steep swells that are common to this section of the river. As the river narrows and flows faster on approach to The Dalles, the water gets deeper and flatter providing a smooth fast ride to the finish While most of us were bruised and
beaten and some of us required stitches; we all felt a strong sense of exhilaration. Gathering together at the HRYC afterward we each exchanged stories of the day’s events and collectively agreed that the Double Damned is definitely a race to be added to every sailors “Bucket List.”
Pl Boat 1 Bruzer 4 Wet Spot Type
by Joshua May Skipper
Moore 24 Morgan Larson
2 Moore Cowbell Moore 24 Katherine Meyer 3 Adios
Moore 24 Scott Walecka Moore 24
John Verdoia
5 Nuclear Power Moore 24 Matt McQueen 6 Moorigami 7 Morjito
Moore 24
8 More Uff Da 9 Pteron
10 Flying Tiger 11 Super Friends
Moore 24 Doug Archbald Moore 24 Melges 24 Moore 24 B25
12 Monster Express Expr 27 13 Electric Mayhem Moore 24 14 Strega
C&C 25 15 Giant Slayer
Ben Braden Dan Kaseler Kurt Lahr Tyler Bech Ted Lohr
Brian Petros Arpaq Family
SC 27 David Garman
16 Kitchen Remodel Expr 27 Bill Sumerfield 17 Crazy Lulu 18 Symbiosis 19 Weta dnf Jack
dnf Subatomic dnf Diversion
Choate 22 Bart Vervlouet S2 9.1 Lance Staughton Weta Tri David Berntsen Wabbit William Erkelens Chris Lloyd
Rocket 22 dnf Gorgeous Nelson Merrek 44
J-35 Mark Newbrook Jim Case
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