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Ocean Racing in Marvelous Marin

By Christine Weaver | August 19, 2015 | Tiburon-Point Reyes, CA |

Here’s a pop quiz: What 62-mile ocean regatta starts in Marin County and finishes in Marin County two days in a row? The answer of course is the Drake’s Bay Race.

Randy Leasure’s Westsail 32 Tortuga may not be your typical racing boat, but the singlehander sails in SSS races such as last year’s slow and foggy Drake’s Bay Race. We’ll have a profile of Leasure and a couple of his fellow singlehanders in the September issue of Latitude 38.

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For the second year in a row, the Singlehanded Sailing Society will join the OYRA’s race to Drake’s Bay, which is coming up this weekend. The combined fleet will start off the deck of the Corinthian YC on Saturday morning, sail around the Marin Headlands and up the coast to Drake’s Bay, spend the night at anchor, and race back to Tiburon on Sunday, 31 miles each way.

A CYC committee boat will join the fleet in Drake’s Bay to facilitate finishes on Saturday and starts on Sunday. Although some racers do the ‘turn-and-burn’, forsaking Sunday’s race to get back home on Saturday night, they miss relaxing in the scenic cove, the camaraderie of the anchorage, the mini-raft-ups that form, and the visiting between boats.

The deadline to enter as an SSS racer is tonight at midnight. Skippers have until 5 p.m. on Thursday to get all their forms completed. And yes, shorthanders can get scored in both series. The combined skippers’ meeting is tonight at 7:30 at Oakland YC in Alameda. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Another singlehander, Stan Glaros, tacks his 1D35 Zsa Zsa at the Golden Gate Bridge on the way to Half Moon Bay in June’s OYRA race.

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The following SSS race will be the Half Moon Bay Race on September 19, and the OYRA will join them for the first time this year (the OYRA already had a Half Moon Bay Race on June 27). The final regatta of the SSS season will be the Vallejo 1-2, in which racers singlehand to Vallejo YC on October 17 and race back to Richmond YC doublehanded the following day. Sorry, OYRA racers — this one goes inland!

On his way to Vallejo, Paul Disario waves from the cockpit of the Olson 911S Plus Sixteen.

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