(Santa Barbara, CA)- The J/125 WARRIOR has been having a lot of fun sailing off windy, sunny Santa Barbara
on some spectacular sailing days this spring, enjoying the nuking
conditions that often sweep around Point Conception to the north and
blast the fleet with 20-35 kts winds on a clear day!On April 8th weekend was the famous Race to the Tower and back. Basically, a wind sprint on starboard gybe from the starting line set just off the famous pier at the southeastern part of the harbor- Stearns Wharf- then off to one of the big oil rigs offshore in the Santa Barbara Channel and return to the finish. In that race, the J/125 WARRIOR simply lit it up, sent it down to the rig at speeds up to 23 kts and won the fleet overall by three minutes. Here is the YouTube video of the experience by Paul Harteck, the son of the skipper Larry Harteck in the video.
Then, as if they did not have enough fun on the April 8th Tower Race, then WARRIOR’s owner, Dr Laura Schlessinger, got in on the act for their May 4th extremely windy “Wet Wednesday Night” series race.
Again, it was blowing up to 25 kts and the mighty WARRIOR took off
again! With Dr Laura on the helm, they easily hit 21 kts of boat speed-
“girl power on steroids!!” The crew included Sam Solhaug, Larry
Harteck, Bill Daffron, Dean Duesette, Xander, Brett Decampos, Colin
Campbell, and Steve Goularte. Watch the J/125 sailing video here.
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