Last night’s Corinthian Yacht Club race on Bellingham Bay featured the most weather that we’ve had on Thursday night all season, with wind gusts clocked at 24 knots.
We also had onboard the most crew for the series, six adults. Thank goodness for Courtney, Chuck and David for grinding, giving Jennifer’s and my knees and arms a break.
It was a thrilling race of Michael Jackson (RIP) proportions, with a near collision of three sailboats — us included — at the Post Point buoy, the windward mark. And with Chuck and Peter using all their strength to steer HoriZen while the boat heeled at a 45-degree angle. We were so far over that dribbles of water drained out of the bilge onto the cabin floor. Peter, who was mostly at the helm, said he doesn’t worry about how far over we are unless and until the top of the winches are in the water.
This picture of Chuck, with HoriZen’s horizon, was NOT PhotoShopped!
We think we came over the finish line first, even without corrected time based on our rating. But we haven’t seen any race results in some weeks.
