Pajamarama

Pinkie, Teddy, and Clothes Horse observe the competition.

Doug Schoemaker photo.

Depends scrutinizes the spinnaker shape with support from Cabin Boy. Nice to see all those boats behind us.

Doug Schoemaker photo.

Legs!

Doug Schoemaker photo.

Full Moon enjoyed a very full crew for the Pajama Night Duck Dodge on yet another spectacular evening. Art “Hot Legs” Teller, Debra “Teddy” Ricard, Doug “Sunset Shot” Schoemaker, Michael “Clothes Horse” Medina, Marcelle “Pinkie” Lynde, Daniel “Cabin Boy” Mengedoht, and skipper John “Depends” Mengedoht had a timely start but were blanketed by a cloud of sails crowding in at the Committee Boat, including the relative giant Buchan 37 Distance. Once into clear air, Full Moon got up to speed and made some good tacks to approach the “AGC” buoy. With a boat stalled right at the buoy, Full Moon was able to swing a bit wide and quickly launch the Equalizer spinnaker, picking off three surprised boats, including the speedy Olson 25 Dreams.

After a decent jibe at the “Challenger” buoy, Full Moon kept rocketing along on a nice beam reach, passing a Santana 20, a J24, and the J-22 Rawhide while holding off Dreams. With a smooth spinnaker drop at the Freeway buoy, it was back upwind to head into a second lap. Unfortunately, the Santana and Dreams managed to get by on this long leg and the two J boats were in close contention throughout the second lap. Full Moon almost caught Dreams on the second long reaching leg but had to contend with Rawhide trying to come up from behind and the three boats rounded the final buoy in close formation.

The wind got a bit light and shifty for the final leg to the finish and, unfortunately, both J boats got by to drop Full Moon to a still commendable 11th out of a very large fleet. It was great fun to mix it up with Dreams and the J boats while leaving old rivals Fortis and Shogun well behind.