Gig Harbor LeMans Race November 12


This is truly one of the most fun


races held on Puget Sound each year and features a unique start. At the preparatory signal, all boats are at anchor in the starting area with crews below decks. At the starting signal, crews scramble topsides to weigh anchor, raise sails, and squirm out the mouth of Gig Harbor to a turning mark in Colvos Passage before returning to the finish inside Gig Harbor. If you haven’t participated in this race, you really should. It will easily become your favorite event of the year. For complete information, check out


www.gigharboryc.com or contact Tom Mitchell at Sailwildflower@gmail.com


Round The County November 12-13


The Orcas Island Yacht Club and


the Friday Harbor Sailing Club invite you to participate in the 24th annual Round The County sailboat race. The race is approximately 76 miles with an overnight stop in Roche Harbor, San Juan Island. Friday night November 11,


rendezvous at the Orcas Island Yacht Club, in West Sound, Orcas Island. Saturday, November 12, the start is


at Lydia Shoal, in Rosario Strait, just East of Obstruction Pass. The course starts to the North this year, past Orcas Island, around Clark, Matia, Sucia, and Patos Islands, then continues down Boundary Pass past the Turn Point Light House and finishes for the day at Roche Harbor. Sunday, November 13, the second leg


starts in Mosquito Bay, south of Henry Island. The course continues South along the shore of San Juan Island, across Salmon Bank, around Lopez, Decatur and Blakely Islands to finish again at Lydia Shoal. An Awards dinner follows at the Orcas Island Yacht Club. Yachts are required to have a current


PHRF-NW certificate, meet Category II equipment standards. No entries will be accepted after November 1. Email: racedirector@roundthecounty.com or write: Betsy Wareham, P.O. Box 119, Orcas , WA 98280, (360) 376-2314(w) (360) 376-4258(h) or visit http://roundthecounty.com


Seattle Yacht Club Star & Bar Regatta The Seattle Yacht Club’s Star &


Bar regatta is a mainstay of the Pacfic Northwest competitive sailing season. The regatta marks the end of summer racing and the start of the wet and wild Fall season. For 2011, the Star & Bar offered heavy breeze, a healthy amount of excitement and just enough sunshine to round out a fun filled weekend of windward/leeward buoy races. Five classes including the One-Design J/105 class gathered on the waters just off of Shilshole Bay to compete with some of the most stalwart competitors that the Puget Sound has to offer. Multi-day buoy races often test


a crew’s skill and boat handling performance to the extreme. Doing well on the buoy course requires orchestrated maneuvers and refined crew coordination. How well a team works together consistently will ultimately determine how well they perform on the water. Endurance and a team’s ability to work through the fatigue of multiple races are important to keep the boat moving fast. As Stuart Walker once wrote, “The team that makes the least mistakes on the race course wins the race.” Racing began Saturday with light


breeze and partly cloudy skies. As a large, dark, cold front moved in from the south, the breeze began to build. With several downwind finishes and shorter overall course lengths, the competition was close and often within only seconds


1 Class 1 Wasabi


2 Jack Rabbit 3 Tachyon 4 Eye Candy


Kernan 44 Greg Slyngstad CM1200 Chester Hibbert 39' ML/RC Farr 395


5 Voodoo Child Farr 39ML


2 Class 1 Trophy Wife Melges 24 2 Uno 3 Dos


4 Firecracker 5 Brio


3 Class 1 Kotuku


Sierra 26x Sierra 26 FT10M


6 Fast Forward Melges 24


Shaun Breese James Marta Brian Duchin


Glenn Klute Brad Butler Paul Faget


John Anicker


Melges 24 Manfred Schmiedl Darrin Towe


2 Absolutely G&S 1 Ton Charlie Macaulay 3 Shoot The Moon IOR 2 Ton 4 J-Tripper 5 Corvo


Farr 1220 Graeme Esarey Don Wills


J-109 J-33


6 What? A Tripp! Petr 37


Rick Nordquist Tom Kerr


Morgan & Yob 7 Different Drummer Cent 40s Charles Hill


at the finish line. As the wind’s speed increased a few boats had wild rides and spectacular crashes. Paul Faget’s Sierra 26 Dos broached and spent a fare amount of time swimming with its mast in the water. Patrick Nelson & Bob Mayfield’s J/29 Slick had a spectacular round-up in a large puff of wind. The crew later remarked that while they had a few issues on the downwind run, they were having a blast racing the boat. By Sunday, the breeze was on full


speed from the start of racing with puffs in the upper 20s. Wet and wild, day two of the Star & Bar offered a total of 3 races, the first of which proved to be a gear- buster. As the day progressed a few boats decided to retire, while others waited for the breeze to wane. On Greg Slyngstad’s Kernan 44 Wasabi we took full advantage of the heavy breeze to see what the boat could do. Amidst a few broaches, we saw 18 plus off downwind speed on the speedometer. The crew aboard Glenn Klute’s Melges 24 Trophy Wife had the time of their lives with downwind speed around 20 knots. By the end of Sunday’s racing the wind calmed and the water flattened providing a relaxed end to a great weekend of racing. A bit bruised and weather worn, we


all gathered at the Corinthian Yacht Club Shilshole clubhouse to see old friends, make a few new friends, and recount the weekend’s carnage and enjoyable competition.


by Joshua May 8 DWW


9 Pegasus 10 Shada 11 Beltane 12 3


4 Class 1 Jubilee


4 Last Tango 5 Usawi


3 Mata Hari 4 Slingshot


7 Magic Button 8 Kowloon


Davidson 30 Bryan Agnetta Soverel 33 J-109


Allen Johnson Jerry Woodfield


Dehler 39 Ken Macdonald Tantivy


J-105


Stuart Burnell Erik Kristen


2 Allegro Vivace J-105 Lorenzo Migliorini 3 Delirium


J-105 Diercks & Anderson J-105 J-105


Jim Geros


5 Class 1 Blue Martini Olson 911 2 Slick


S2 9.1 Sloop


Robert Blayloc Laney Gale


J-29 Nelson & Mayfield Catalina 36 Paul Walchenbach J/30


5 Kiwi Express Farr 1020 Reinhard Freywald 6 Rubicon


Grady Morgan Marshel/Olson


Olson 911


Jim Hewitson Ken Chin


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