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Hawkfarm Knockdown Redux

"I raced against your mother." That’s what Dorian McKelvy told Gordie Nash at Golden Gate Yacht Club during the Seaweed Soup Regatta in San Francisco this winter. Currently the skipper of the J/111 MadMen, McKelvy used to sail the Hawkfarm Spitfire on San Francisco Bay back in the 1980s and raced against Jocelyn Nash, who owned El Gavilan. Latitude 38 published one of McKelvy’s most memorable moments in the October 1984 issue.

This brody was captured for all time by Kurt Molnar during the Hawkfarm Nationals hosted by Berkeley YC on Labor Day Weekend, 1984.

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Read about the GGYC Seaweed Soup Regatta and Dorian’s adventures with the J/111 in the April issue of Latitude 38, making the rounds today.

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On Monday, we posted Jeff Berman’s photo of this tall ship and asked readers to guess her name, homeport and mission.