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BROVID-2020
Way back in 1985, I ended up on a recreational volleyball team at Western Washington University in fall ...
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First Singlehanded Race with Flying Sails
I raced Dragonfly (my prior boat, a 1969 Columbia 26 Mk II) singlehanded last season, but always in ...
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Cruisin’ for the Weekend
One of the big appeals of the J/99 is its competence for both racing and cruising. She’s no ...
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Busy racing week
Since I didn’t start writing this until Thursday, I’m sure I will forget some details. It was a ...
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Third Time is the Charm
One of my favorite outings when I was learning to sail was going out with Gary Peterson on ...
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Orcas!
We were taking a practice run down around Blakely Rocks on Saturday when April cried out… Kelly got ...
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Rogue 3 Buoy Fiasco
Bloggers note: This post was finished three weeks ago, only waiting for YouTube to finish processing the video. ...
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Finally, all the sails
It was just about two years ago I first laid eyes on J/Boats’ design brief for the J/99. ...
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First singlehand
The fact the J/99 could be raced and crusied was an attractive part of the design brief to ...
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First cruise, first doublehanded sail
This past weekend, just prior to our Governor’s Stay at Home order, we decided to do some physical ...
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