Swiftsure!

Another fun filled weekend of sailing is about to happen. The Swiftsure International Sailboat Yacht Race will take place this Saturday. You can check out the race here. Again I will be racing on Wave Dancer and this time Adrienne will be joining me, this will be her first sailboat race ever! 

Along with over one hundred and eighty other sail boats, we'll cross the starting line at about nine in the morning on Saturday. It looks like the race can last anywhere from twenty to thirty hours for us. So, we are hoping to finish in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

You can follow along with us as we race by going to the link below.

http://www.swiftsure.org/race-tracker/ 

After the weekend of racing is over, we then will sail the boat back out the Straight of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific Ocean and down the coast of Washington to Astoria, OR. If time permits, we'll take the boat up the hundred or so miles of the Columbia River to her home in Portland, OR. 

We will pretty much be following the same route as the Oregon Offshore Race from two weeks ago, but in reverse. 

Hopefully I'll keep the cookies in the box this time!

~J~