J/109 JUNKYARD DOG report- August

(San Francisco, CA)- J/109 owner Jim Goldberg has been having a fun time racing in a number of California offshore events this summer.  Here’s the latest:

“After an extremely long wait for a weather window to get our boat back after the California Offshore Race Week, then some unexpected repairs once home, we finally have her out racing again.  We have another video of our J/109 JUNKYARD DOG racing in the San Francisco Drake’s Bay race.

Drake’s Bay is a 31-mile race from San Francisco, out the Golden Gate into the Pacific Ocean and north to Drake’s Bay.  We anchor out overnight with the fleet, and then race back the next morning.  Usually, this allows the boats to raft up and socialize with the other boats and crew that we usually only see in passing.  This year we had 35-knot winds through the night so many of us chose to not raft up!!  A few boats had some anchoring issues and ended up aground in the middle of the night.  I can't help but wonder if this is expected when a group of racers tries their anchoring skills out!

Junkyard Dog saw both ends of the spectrum, 2nd place Saturday and, well, not so good Sunday.  Enjoy the video, it was a fun, but challenging set of races!”   Watch the J/109 JUNKYARD DOG sailing video hereAdd to Flipboard Magazine.


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