If it’s April and your hobbies have nothing to do with botany, Atown has a regatta for you. The annual Tulip Regatta features boats, canvas, a salmon dinner, and world renowned drinking games. This year’s rendition featured guest PRO Dr. Chris “Still Crazy” White and an army of volunteers who worked race committee like their paychecks depended on it. Over 2 days of varying conditions from every cardinal direction 6 races were run and no hurt feelings reports were filed.
PHRF Fleet 1 featured the new kid on the block, Illusionist, disappearing and reappearing on the podium in first place. Slithering into 2nd place was the smallest boat in the fastest fleet, the viper 640 KAA, and coming out of hibernation the mighty Teddy Bear took 3rd.
In the F18 Fleet where two hulls are better than one the podium found the Rum Line accelerating into 1st place. In 2nd place, driving it like they stole it were Joy and Ian on the Joyride, followed by the super fancy looking Team Storm in 3rd.
In the Holy Cross 27 Fleet, 1st place was awarded to the boat with the least amount of hull paint, Little Blue Dune Buggy. In 2nd place was the boat with an unusually large amount of y chromosomes, Wild Rumpus, and battling to the podium in 3rd was the little man on Giant Slayer.
In PHRF Fleet 4, a dominating 6 point performance was pulled off by the most delicious transom in the fleet, the Moore Uff Da. 2nd place was taken by the boat I’ve affectionately named the burpin turd, Eric Beemer’s Surfin Bird. And in third place, putting their best foot forward and keeping their keel off cap santé rock was the mighty Blackfoot.
Puerto Rican 24’s were hotly contested by a load of boats that begin with the letter M. Supreme dominance was awarded via 1st place to Magic Juan with her magic main by 2 points ahead of the other (not Bill Lee’s wizardry) Merlin. Rounding out the podium like rounding leeward marks was Mayhem! with a guest or two from those all-state insurance commercials.
Lastly in PHRF Fleet 6, nobody can stop em’ with mustaches like those, the Walt n’ Jerry show sailing “more quicklier” on the Syn-di-Cat in 1st place. 2nd place went to the none-design turbo tricked SJ24, The Orange Blob, and in 3rd place with more Larry’s than any other boat on the bay was Kyle Saum’s Kymodoce.
Observations and musings in no particular order:
- Can we all agree that leeward marks in
- I’d like to speak for PHRF Fleet 4 and announce that after careful consideration it can be determined that the open transom on a
- Fantastic work by PRO Dr. Chris White & the race committee crew. Races were run very smoothly and we appreciated the fine work over the VHF airwaves. The pep talking/cheerleading was also a nice touch.
- If you’re in Bill Bowman’s way while he’s starting (as much as it might not look like it), Bill Bowman will let you, and everyone else within a ¼ mile earshot, know you’re in his way.
- It’s not an original thought but how did the SC27 fleet, known to be a bit more loud n’ colorful, show up with 5 rigs flying 5 white kites?
- In PHRF Fleet 4 Emoyeni and Lucky Duck developed a notoriety each race for showing up at the startline and promptly never being seen or heard from again. Fear not, they didn’t sink.
- If SC27 hulls aren’t attractively busy enough for you, you should check out the F18 canvas!
- Somebody told me Tom Stockton broke his
- Somebody else told me Dean Vandament is the Stig. I know Dean and I’m buying it.
- Now that Jason Joiner has announced his presence to the SJ24 Fleet I fear for any fellow competitors sailing with cut-rate insurance plans.
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