Shown here accepting the first place award with his children, between SDYC Commodore James Moxham and race director Jeff Johnson, Tom Houlthus aboard his J/145 Bad Pack recently won a light and shifty Bishop Rock Race off San Diego, CA. Hosted by San Diego Yacht Club, this is a 189 nautical mile offshore race beginning off Ship Rock at Two Harbors, Catalina Island to the Bishop Rock Buoy and then finishing off the entrance to the San Diego Channel at Sea Buoy #1.As the scratch boat of the fleet Bad Pack was destined to be first to finish, and this year that advantage was two-fold as the breeze lightened for the remainder of the fleet after Bad Pack got the gun. With a final corrected time win of over 9 hours, it sounds like the wind conditions may not have mattered... Congratulations to Tom and the Bad Pack team for a great start to their racing future... results
