Gig Harbor Yacht Club
Islands Race
he day started out ominously north - as it does half of the time. I made a comment at the top of
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enough with fog and very little I finished up the series with Shaun Colvos Passage that you can’t go faster
wind. Then the fog lifted and with Breese and his awesome crew aboard than the wind. Well you can, but your
it the rest of the breeze did too. It turned Tachyon. We had a comfortable lead in VMG may go to heck and you‘ll end
out to be a pretty nice day though, once our class of five - all we had to do was up reaching around the race course.
the sun came out. The start was delayed a stay close to Jack Rabbit and White Cloud; The sachet up Colvos was at times
bit, but once under way everyone drifted I didn’t think anyone else could get us comfortable and other times terrifying.
across the line with the tide, luckily going on points in Class B. Colvos Passage served up what can be
a very typical day, turning into
The breeze would fill down one shore and you would look
a soup bowl that some giant
great, then drop you like an unwanted stepchild and
would tip one way and then
fill in from the other shore. You definitely had
another. The breeze would fill
to take a number and wait your turn.
down one shore and you would
Photos by Jan Anderson.
look great, then drop you like
an unwanted stepchild and fill
in from the other shore. You
definitely had to take a number
and wait your turn… something
we on Tachyon could not grasp
until after the 3rd gin and tonic
on the way back to Shilshole.
White Cloud took off from
the start and never really looked
back. A camera angle from the
sky would have said it all. A
little dark line followed us up
the Passage keeping all the
smaller boats right behind, and
sometimes passing us! Nothing
was safe on this trip unless you
were the small, slow boat that
kept plodding along with the
breeze filling in. The breeze did
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