Superbowl Comeback!

Full Moon was caught behind a wall of boats in light wind at the starting line for the Superbowl Sunday Goosebump race and, when the fleet began to spread out, Full Moon was nearly last! A few strategic tacks to slightly breezier spots helped as crew Caroline "The Model" Sneed, Sara "Politically Incorrect" Skinner, Chuck "In The Pocket" Weldy, and skipper John "Slow Learner" Mengedoht began a slow crawl toward respectability.

At the end of the first leg, Full Moon had caught and passed old rival Shogun and a few other laggards. Rounding the AGC buoy, Full Moon jibed and then hoisted the giant Equalizer and squeezed past a few more boats. The leg from the Cove buoy to the Freeway buoy was a long and fairly tight reach but Full Moon kept the Equalizer in play and quickly picked off Fortis, another boat or two, and, very nearly, a J33!

The J33 surged back ahead, though (they should!), and the final leg was a slow upwind drag race to a 14th place finish out of more than 25 boats. This doesn't sound all that fabulous but there were a couple of T-birds and all of our old rivals in our wake plus there was no rain!