Round the County race results
Published 4:06 pm Monday, November 25, 2013
If you have a view of Rosario or Haro Straits you may have noticed a lot of sailboats during the second weekend of November. The Round the County sailboat race, now in its 26th year, is a hugely popular event in the Northwest sailing community. This year’s race attracted almost 90 boats.
This year’s race started at Lydia Shoal in Rosario Strait. The fleet proceeded north with a nice breeze that died out before reaching Matia Island. Boats worked very hard to find the little spots of wind to keep moving toward Patos Island, the half way point in Saturday’s racing. On Sunday they restarted off Mosquito Bay. All the fleet made it down to Iceberg Point on the south end of Lopez where the wind died again. As the fleet worked north toward the finish off Obstruction Pass, the wind died one more time. The last mile of the race was an extreme challenge, but the numbers of finishers on Sunday were far greater than the previous day.
San Juan County was represented by “Tir Na Nog” with Bill and Kirk Fraser from Shaw, Tom and Ian Andrewes of “Madame Pele” from Lopez, “Sabra” with John Miller and crew from San Juan, “Tomahawk” with Karl and Jessica Kruger, “Time Bandit” with Bob and Barb Brunius, “Ptolemy” with Betsy Wareham and Angus Brackett, “Chinook” with Jim Roser and Robin Hirsch, all from Orcas. “Tir Na Nog” placed third in Division Three and “Ptolemy” won Division One. “Ptolemy” was skippered by Angus Brackett and Betsy Wareham, with crew Cameron Shuh, Mars LaBaron, Kelly Toombs, David Way, Kurt Cantanaro, and Alex Waldron. This is the second win for “Ptolemy,” an Express 37 owned by Eric Moulton.
For full results and photos, go to roundthecounty.com.
