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Bride and Groom Sail-Off

Two fixtures of San Francisco Bay Area sailing are celebrating their recent marriage today with a sail-off on the Bay.

Ashley Perrin and Merf Owen this morning at San Francisco Yacht Club in Belvedere.

© 2017 Michelle Slade

Ashley Perrin, the owner of Racing Yacht Management and a well-known face in Bay Area sailing and racing circles, tied the knot with Merf Owen of Owen Clarke Design, a world-renowned naval architecture company.  

More than 20 of Ashley and Merf’s friends will be joining them on a pair of J/120s —Chance and Twist — before heading to the Inverness Yacht Club for the full nuptial celebrations on Saturday. The couple were officially married on February 3 (Ashley’s birthday) on South George Island, a British territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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