2010 Shipwright’s Regatta Results

Class Results
1st A class to finish:
Pegasus

1st B class to finish:
Keith Holen on Lasinda

1st C class to finish:
Exploration 18, Dwight Nicholson

1st Gaffer to finish:
Ronald Schmidt on Truant

1st female skipper to finish:
Lisa Vizzini on The Wizard

1st wooden boat to finish:
James Daubenberger on Swift

1st 505 to finish:
Piper Dunlap and Dan Ginther on Dew Flicker

1st dog to finish:
Ruby on Singawing

The traditional and perpetual awards for this years Shipwrights Regatta went to the following:
Van Hope Award for the most youth on board: split between Matt Mortesen on Singawing and Keith Holen on Lasinda

The Hook for the last boat to finish: Matt McCleary on Ceridwen

Pegleg-first boat to finish: Dan Newland on Pegasus

Wack-o-Matic for mis-spent energy: Chris Grace on Lotus (who sat becalmed 3 feet from the finish line long enough for Sumatra, the OTHER Concordia yawl, to make up a mile and scoot past to finish ahead.)

Golden Trident for the saltiest: John Stone on Cutty Sark

In Praise of Martha and Her Crew

The following article ran last November in the new Northwest boating site, Three Sheets Northwest, to celebrate Port Townsend’s own schooner Martha’s victory in the recent Round the County race.  In case you missed it, here’s the article and some pictures by Sean Trew of Pacific Fog.

Pegasus Goes Round the County

Pegasus leads the fleet into Haro Strait

A Beginner’s guide to the Round the County race, by Dan Newland

Close to Thanksgiving, many boaters love to sail “South of the Border”, however that generally assumes the US border, not the Canadian.  But for 21 years, sailboats in the Puget Sound area have participated in a two [...]