2007 Northsound Event #2

For 2007 WINSA tried to set up a North Sound Series with Milltown sailing, and they wanted to use Round Whidbey, this Milltown event #2 and Foulweather Bluff as the races. We did two out of the three, and performed well in them. We decided to participate and delivered the boat to Everrett on friday afternoon, and had great weather, a nice 15 knot NW, perfect for a kite ride down. Kevin was waiting for us when we arrived and then brought us to the Ferry and in doing so almost managed to kill us all, but that is another story.....on to the race!


We had a fair amount of boats to sail against, three J30 and an etchells 22 to name a few. It was a great sunny day and we had great winds, downshifting to a 3 about 30 minutes into the race. After that, the pressure came down and it turned into a long haul. A few boats manged to get stuck in the mud as we attempted to round the baby island bouy in a negative tide....brilliant. After that it was a long slow kite ride home, during which I think we all decided we should have brought more sun screen. The worst part was when we ran out of Dr. Pepper........

I think we managed to hold onto a second place finish, coming in just behind Bob, the J30.