Pretty in Pink

Ignitor with a very special mainsail!

The Pink Boat Regatta Night Duck Dodge featured a lot of pink clothing and decorations, including a fabulous painted mainsail on Ignitor and the usual exuberance aboard Deception. Full Moon crew Randy “Reunion” Olsen, Debra “Quick Draw” Ricard, Sophie “Oh Poo!” Ricard, Marcelle “Boom Chick” Van Houten, Daniel “No Pink” Mengedoht, and skipper John “Strategerlicious” Mengedoht bought a bunch of pink duck stickers in support of breast cancer research and then set up for what should have been a pretty great start until thwarted by Zephyr to windward refusing to yield to Full Moon to leeward, both boats on starboard tack and side by side. (Gary, you’ve done a lot for the beer-can sailing community but that doesn’t give you diplomatic immunity from the Colregs!) Nevertheless, Full Moon had a good first leg to the AGC buoy. The short leg to the Chandler’s Cove buoy was a speedy reach and then it was time to launch the Equalizer for a long downwind run.

 

A drone captured Full Moon dousing the Equalizer on the first lap.

Rather than tax the foredeck crew with a lot of jibes, Full Moon at times sailed a bit “by the lee” and holding the boom in place. Sailing a “hotter” course and jibing would have been a bit faster but Full Moon still maintained enough speed to get past a boat or two. After a clean drop approaching the Freeway buoy, it was a straight shot to the Aurora buoy on a very close reach before heading upwind again to start the second lap.

Debra, Sophie, Marcelle, and Randy enjoying another beautiful evening on the lake.

Apart from 34’ Runaway finally getting past, the leg to the AGC buoy went very well, as did the quick reach to Chandler’s. On the downwind run to the Freeway buoy, Full Moon slowly passed a J22 and Necessary Evil (Catalina 30) while nearly catching a speedy yellow Moore 24. Full Moon never did quite catch the Moore but held off the others on the final two legs to finish about 12^th, quite good considering the competition in second start these days.

It gets dark so early these days!