Summer At Last!

Michael, John, and Daniel

John catches flies while Eileen trims the jib.

Are those 80s vintage sunglasses?

Caroline basks in the sun.

Full Moon crew Art “Headband” Teller, Michael “Pole Dancer” Medina, Eileen “Cookies” McHugh, Caroline “Silver Jacket” Sneed, Daniel “Tab” Mengedoht, and skipper John “Meds” Mengedoht were lacking a good mullet but otherwise in fine shape for the 80s Night Duck Dodge. With sunny skies, warm temperatures (finally!), and a nice northerly, Full Moon enjoyed a rare good start and made good speed to the “Freeway” buoy, rounding ahead of Runner, Tenacious, and Perfectly Strange.


Heading for the “Aurora” buoy on a tight reach, Runner slowly crept past but Tenacious could not quite catch up. Full Moon did well under the mighty Equalizer spinnaker and continued to hold off Tenacious downwind. Perfectly Strange did better sailing tighter wind angles, though, and managed to get by. After rounding the AGC and Chandler’s buoys, Tenacious also finally made it by upwind, leaving Full Moon to battle for the second lap with a quick red Santana 20 and a blue T-bird, the rest of the fleet having fallen well behind.

Both boats challenged Full Moon at times but, in the end, Full Moon easily held off the Santana and beat the T-bird to the finish to place an excellent eleventh. Fortis and Shogun were never close, finishing well behind.