Richmond YC Wednesday Night

June 28, 2010

Hard to imagine any yacht club in the Northern Hemisphere doing a beer can with three Aussie 18s plus the usual assortment of Mom and Pop crab crushers and hot custom one-offs. No wonder our handicapper is a quantum physicist. All with hot babes who know how to sail. About 30+ boats showed up for the parade around Southampton Shoal last Wednesday night.

When was the last time you saw a Farallon Clipper starboard-tack an Aussie 18? ©2010 Richmond YC

A Schumacher 52 gets the inside on an Aussie 18 at the finish. Sam on the outside suffered a tragic blender breakdown and almost had to retire. The crew gamely soldiered on with mixed drinks. ©2010 Richmond YC

This wahine moved forward to call the start and escape voracious winch grinding gorillas. ©2010 Richmond YC

Fresh from a "nearer my God than to thee" pitch poling of a Mumm 30 off Pt. Conception in the SF-Insanity Barbara Race, Emma Creighton and John Gray enjoy a sedate and drier Wetsu Express 27 in about 25 knots less breeze. ©2010 Richmond YC

JV Gilmour's latest toy Prudential. It was just brought from Vermont to do this race. ©2010 Richmond YC

- Seymour Dodds

The next Richmond YC Wednesday Night Beer Can Race is this week, on June 30. See www.richmondyc.org for more.