2010 New Years Day Slug Boat Race on the Columbia River
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Click on the thumbnail for the gallery. Click on the medium sized gallery picture to get the full size image.
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- Cape Dory 33 Pua Melia get out in the lead at the start of the 2010 New Years Day Slug Boat Race.
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- Westsail 32 Sarasand gets over the starting line in the number 2 position.
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- Fuji ketch Star of the Sea leaves her fenders out to slow her down so she doesn’t show us all up. Thanks Tak!
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- Craig in the other Fuji ketch in hot pursuit at the start.
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- Cape Dory 33, Pua Melia and Wastsail 32, Sarasand battle for the lead.
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- Cape Dory 33, Pua Melia and Wastsail 32, Sarasand battle for the lead.
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- Cape Dory 33, Pua Melia and Wastsail 32, Sarasand head for bouy 14 with Chinook 34 Cinnamon chasing.
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- Fuji ketchs battling for a place ahead of the CATALINA 27???
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- Cape Dory 33 sailboat Pua Melia rounds bouy 14 first and heads back down river.
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- Cape Dory 33 sailboat Pua Melia on broad reach.
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- Cape Dory 33 sailboat Pua Melia passes to Starboard.
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- Westsail 32 sailboat Sarasand rounds bouy 14 in second place.
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- Westsail 32 sailboat Sarasand on a beam reach.
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- Westsail 32 sailboat Sarasand shows some speed.
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- Somewhere back there are 2 Ketchs can’t see the Catalina 27.
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- Wait, I’ll zoom in…still can’t see the Catalina…
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- Cape Dory 33 sailboat Pua Melia stutts her stuff on the way back up from a first place finish.
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- This Cascade 29 joined in about 1/2 way and looked pretty good, not a great picture though.
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- Westsail 32 sailboat Sarasand reefs down after a second place finish and heads in.
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- One last shot of Sarasand as we head into Hayden Bay. Don’t know what happened to the Fujis.