Thanks for the heads-up about the article in the Times. I've sailed it a number of times in Grasshopper, but no matter how hard we push, we just got waterlined by the bigger boats.
Last time we raced we finished around 4:30PM which is pretty dark on a cloudy night at this time of year. We motored in to Roche Harbor, and as we tied up, the storm really hit. If we'd been a little later to the finish we'd have been out sailing in that. I don't have a good enough crew to handle those conditions.
The race has started to attract a lot of the bigger boats from Seattle, Anacortes and Bellingham. It does go around the entire County, except for Henry Island.
