OPENING DAY OF YACHTING SEASON 2008

With registrations completed months ago, Seattle Singles Yacht Club was prepared to compete is several categories for Opening Day trophies. Seattle Yacht Club brings in a special floating dock to Portage Bay for visiting boats. We had been assigned 140 linear feet of Dock 0 (zero) for our six boats from SSYC. Larry Gill, our SSYC Commodore, and I were the only two skippers from SSYC with boats there as early as Thursday.

Gone With the Wind, Larry's Tashiba 37, was to be our club Bridge Boat for the Saturday Parade. Whisper would compete in Dressed Sail against 7 other boats; Lucky Dog, Gary Bradley's 48' Chris Craft, in Sponsored Decorated; and Surt, Mike Sinclair's C&C 41, in Decorated Sail.

The weather on Thursday & Friday was glorious! We had a club dock party on both Friday and Saturday evenings.

While I would like to say that Saturday began with a beautiful blue sky and sunshine, such was not the case!

With 14 crew aboard Whisper makes her way through the Montlake Cut on the way to 1st Place in Best Dressed Sail for the second year in a row. Below her crew receives the Seattle Mariner/Friedlander Perpetual Trophy.

We hear that it was a real cat fight on Lucky Dog as they brought home 3rd Place in their category.

Kris Anderson to starboard and Dolly Leber to port announced to everyone that something special was coming. Surt won 1st Place in Decorated Sail with a lot of work, energy and the assistance of a 7' dancing elephant.

Gary, Joe & Mike, three proud skippers show off their trophy plaques. To quote Steve Franklin, Past Commodore of Tacoma Yacht Club concerning SSYC, "You guys are FABULOUS!"

Seattle Singles Yacht Club may not be a member of the Grand Fourteen of Puget Sound Yacht Clubs but no one can deny that we bring spice to the table.

Until my next post, which will be from Croatia,

Be Safe.