Bob Ross of Sail Northwest reports: We had a great J/Boat owner and crew party at Whidbey Island Race Week. Well over 200 people and 28 J/boats represented out of 95 entries. We ate 20 lbs of potato salad, 20 lbs of pasta salad and 750 pieces of chicken (that’s 93.5 chickens!). We had lots of door prizes from the sponsors and auctioned off Jr sailors as crew making $220 for the Jr. sailing program. Required attire at entry gate to the party: The J/Boat T-shirt…The J/29 Here and Now was the overall winner of race week receiving the coveted Chelsea Mantle Clock. The J/109 "Astral Plane" down from Vancouver BC won the always tight PHRF 72 - 73 fleet with the J/35 "The Boss" in third place.
The J/105 fleet had the only One Design Start with 9 boats. The racing was close in every race with four to six boats overlapped at every mark. After 6 races the top two boats had 21 points the next two boats had 22 points and the 5th place boat had 25 points. Eventually "Last Tango" prevailed and got class trophy for the week. complete results