We had a really good race on the good ship Wizard. It was a strange race not the normal weather. To start with, we started in a South Easterly!!, Had Spinnakers up by Catalina. The forecast was for little to no wind, be we made it out well, leading our class and at one point 100 miles into the race was ahead of 2 out 3 100 footers.
We had a near miss with a very large Blue Whale, I would say 1 meter. He came up from the port side, surfaced on the starboard side. One of the crew thought the tail slapped the boat...
The hard problem for this race was boats were so different in speed they took different routes.. Ragamuffin took the way north course, getting up to San Francisco's latitude. We were 200 miles south of them looking to connect to the high and good wind. We did, and took off and look very good in the race, till the wind died on us the last 36 hrs and the little boats were able to sail directly to the mark with wind...
Raggs sailed 2576 miles
Rio sailed 2441 miles
Wizard sailed 2472
and the Race winner GI sailed 2315
You can re-live the race at http://yb.tl/transpac2015
Such is Ocean Racing...
We had a great trip, we all could have sailed another 2000 miles.
Next week on the to Finland to sail the 2.4 open worlds with 108 other boat!!
First time in my new boat
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