Toga, Toga, Toga!

The start was fairly crowded. Full Moon is just to the right of the yellow boat.

The threatened clouds held off for another dry Tuesday and the Toga Night Duck Dodge. Full Moon crew Art “Skirt” Teller, Chad “Skirt Me” Harnish, Dave “Silver Bullet” Pulsifer, Julia “Milk Maid” Horner, Daniel “Music Deprivation” Mengedoht, and skipper John “No Spinnaker” Mengedoht enjoyed a decent start, clear of a tight knot of boats at the Committee Boat but a few seconds later than ideal. A large Catalina blocked the light wind for a while on a tight reach but Full Moon worked clear to windward and around before closing up on the sterns of speedy Scat and several J24s just before rounding the AGC buoy.

The Full Moon crew enjoys having a little wind on the second leg.

The next leg had wind that alternated between decent and very light with an E-Scow gaining in the stronger stuff and Full Moon gaining in the lighter air. It was a fairly straight shot to the Freeway buoy and, once around, Full Moon just hardened up a few degrees before tacking toward the Aurora buoy. Delaying the tack paid off well as Full Moon was able to fetch the buoy without a tack.

The sun heads for the horizon all too early as Full Moon crosses the north end of the lake.

The course required going through the finish line on the first lap in case the course was shortened, though a number of boats appeared to have forgotten this. With a fairly tight reach, Full Moon elected once again to use the jib rather than the spinnaker. With the wind filling in, this provided the most speed of the evening and Full Moon passed and then stayed just ahead of the J30 Slingshot to take a very respectable 12^th place in what did turn out to be a one-lap race.