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Photo by Sean Trew of Pacific Fog Photography

The Columbia Gorge One Design regatta is this weekend. I came across this post from a blogger who goes by Riverdog:

Attack of the J-24’s

Last night, just before dark, a lone J-24 sailboat puts in to our dock and ties up for the night. Not too unusual, but….

They never come at you one at a time!

This morning, at 0700, I got up and peeked out from the curtained cabin, and the dock was full of the critters! Like fire ants in Tejas, they seem to have multiplied overnight.

They all shared a quick breakfast on the dock, operaing in an efficient system, each boater having one breakfast item, which were quickly shared, and on some sort of signal, at 0745, they all started little buzzy outboard engines (no wind this morning) and buzzed on up the river.

Gangsters!

I like it.
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Photo Bill Blevins used under a Creative Commons license

I posed the following question to the fleet listserve after the downwind start in the third race last Tuesday:

What is the strategy for a downwind start. For instance, when do you set your spinnaker, when do you raise the pole?

It sparked quite a discussion…

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