Well, since we were so lucky in 2006 in this race, we decided to enter again and see if we could make it a repeat. We managed to pull off a great start in about 5knots of breeze, hitting the boat right at the gun with no one on top of us. We shot out of the pack and sat in the lead for a short time. As the breeze started to come up, we found ourselves crossing tacks with Skookumchuck and Lissa for a while before they pulled ahead. That is when the wind shut down just south of Keystone. We floated around for awhile and took the time to catch up on eating and capturing great photo ops...........
Once the wind came back up, we started to move again, only to join the rest of the leaders bobbing at Possesion Point, the south end of Whidbey. This is where we found Grins, the Olsen 30, Veloce, the Bene 36.7 and the rest of the pack, Heart of gold, Bob, and Garuda to name a few. As night time fell, it became time to attempt the heavily argured Mulketio ferry crossing of death. I have always been conservitive when dealing with large ships that go very fast in the middle of night, but some of the other crew (Doug and Joe) are a little more brazin when it comes to this type of thing. So against the desires of a few, I came down to give the ferry some room as it entered the pier on the whidbey side. This was the response that I recieved......
Shortly after this, the wind shut down and we drifted for a few hours. The night pretty much sucked, and at that point we just wanted the misery to be over. As dawn came, we realized that we had stayed in the fight the whole night and were nipping on the heels of one of the best sailed boats in Oak Harbor, Veloce. We managed to get lucky again and pulled off another repeat of last year.
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