No Rain, No Pain

Full Moon is first across the starting line but the J22 SYC4 was better positioned.

Too shorthanded to fly the Equalizer (spinnaker), Full Moon once again raced in fourth start for the Onesie Night Duck Dodge. Crew Daniel “Random Task” Mengedoht, new crew Kristin “Muscles” Rue, and skipper John “Strategerie” Mengedoht managed a great start right on the line. Unfortunately, the J22 SYC 4 was not far behind and closer to the Committee Boat, giving them the lead once we all tacked. Even more unfortunately, there was a t-bone port-starboard collision not far behind us! (We hope the damage was minimal, but the crash was quite loud!)

With clear air and good wind, Full Moon enjoyed good speed on the upwind leg to the AGC buoy, rounding still in second place and ahead of several third start boats. (For some reason, the Race Committee elected to do a clockwise course, which can encourage boats to approach an upwind mark on port tack for an easier and faster rounding, but things went smoothly so far as we saw.) The course to the Aurora buoy was roughly dead downwind so Full Moon went through a few gybes and even ran “wing and wing” at times but still managed to stay even with some boats using spinnakers, passing two just before rounding.

The course to the Freeway buoy was a close reach, providing good speed. The rounding went well, and it was then upwind to the finish line where Full Moon got the horn for second place!