Full Moon's skipper went for a wild ride Saturday, crewing on the Catalina 30 Magician in the Cruising Class for the Smith Island Race. There was plenty of sunshine but the wind rapidly built into the low 20s out of the south. A spinnaker run north to the southern tip of Whidbey Island from Shilshole was fun and fast but the return trip was a long bash upwind and into the waves.
Clever skipper Brian Berg covered our closest competition, the Santana 27 Sunshine, along the western shore of the Sound until both boats tacked to cross the Sound to the finish line. Calling this tack nearly four miles away is tough but Magician arrived lined up perfectly with the finish with Sunshine some 60 yards to leeward (and needing to tack to finish).
In the end, Magician finished first in Class 7 under PHRF handicapping and also corrected out ahead of all the boats in Class 6, which had used the same course. Fun times!
Monday, April 28, 2014
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