Poor Starts Continue

Lucienne loves this stuff!

Full Moon crew Randy “Handy” Olsen, Robert “Healthy Snacks” Leykam, Lucienne “Tropical Dutch” Grace, Daniel “IMAX” Mengedoht, and skipper John “More Beer” Mengedoht were positioned reasonably well for the start of the Tropical Night Duck Dodge until a couple of starboard tack boats played spoiler (the line heavily favors port tack). We emerged unscathed but well behind the leaders. Two tacks were needed to round the Freeway buoy after which Full Moon continued toward Gasworks before tacking to the west.

Yes, Cap'n John steers with his knees while trimming the Equalizer...

Two more tacks brought Full Moon to the Aurora buoy and then the mighty Equalizer was launched. The breeze was a bit strong for the nylon monster, but we saw speeds regularly in the six-knot range and even up over seven a few times. A slightly early take-down was wise and then it was around the AGC buoy to head for the floating “island” mark to grab some free beers.

Daniel douses the jib post-race. Another gorgeous evening!

The final leg saw the wind fade a bit and Full Moon ended up pinned by Mouse (J30) just to windward and unable to make the finish line. Mouse finally tacked just before the line, too late for Full Moon, but somehow they managed to mess up the tack back, also missing the finish line buoy! Karma is a bitch… Since we were about tenth at that point, it wasn’t worth turning around to finish properly so score this a DNF. Given the gorgeous weather, we had nothing to complain about.