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LATITUDE/ROB THE GREAT SCHOONER RACE Sixteen schooners in two divisions turned out August 29 for the San Francisco YC's Great Schooner Race. With participation up 40% over last year and some of the Bay's most notable schooners — some old, some new — in attendance, the Great Schooner Race was exactly that. The after-sail party featured live music and a cameo appearance by Latitude 38 Managing Editor "Banjo Andy" Turpin, and perhaps the best of all, an artfully managed raft-up of all the boats on proud display. Don't be tempted into thinking this was some kind of boat parade, a 'concours d'museum pieces.' Many, if not all, of these boats are actively sailed and, on that day, sailed hard. With breeze into the low 20s, the pursuit race saw the Marconi division do a Bay tour — Yellow Bluff-Cityfront-Blossom-Southampton Shoal-Marker#4-finish at the club — while the gaffers did all but the Yellow Bluff leg. Bob Vespa's Edson Schock-designed Scorpio beat all comers in the Marconi division. At 42 feet on deck, the boat has been around since it was christened for a movie director — a silent movie director — in 1927. Vespa purchased Scorpio in 1994 during a standstill in an ongoing restoration; it would be 10 more years before she sailed again. He credits the boat with getting him to retire from the faculty of City College of San Francisco, where he taught commercial photography from 1971 to 1996. " T h i s w a s a b o u t t h e f o u r t h boat race I've ever entered," Vespa said. Page 108 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009 "So I worked the decks, and deferred the strategy to a seasoned crew." His decision to let Dave Rempe, Bill Vespa, Mark Lindlaw and Justin Ward take care of the strategy paid off. "It seemed we'd never catch Tillicum I, who stayed ahead of the pack forever," Vespa said. "It was seesaw from Blossom Rock to Southampton Shoal, with Scorpio staying barely ahead of the last of the pack on the downwind side. Tillicum decided to sail higher into the falling wind and, I believe, got into some of Angel Island's wind shadow, and dropping in with us. "We approached Southampton in a tight pack. After rounding it, we dropped to the back of the pack and headed a bit more to weather, but when we were about even with the last of them, the wind all but died. "Though we were all ghosting along at a barely navigable speed, we began inching ahead of the pack as the breeze backed a bit to the south, and they fell into our wind shadow. At that point, we could see Elizabeth Muir joining the pack, and then Santana — but they both came to the same halt about the time we began to see the whitecaps forming up ahead. We threw up a small fisherman in anticipation of moderate winds to the finish, rounded Marker #4, and dropped the genoa jib in favor of a yankee jib and fore-staysail for the beat up Raccoon Strait." Jeff Hawkins' Jakatan — the newest boat in the fleet — beat six other gaffers. LATITUDE/ROB LATITUDE/ROB
Clockwise from above — 'Elizabeth Muir' with a bone in her teeth as she reaches across the Slot; who says only plastic-boat racers get to wear matching crew gear; Raccoon Strait was a pretty busy place as the fleet compressed before their finish; 'Gaslight' rumbles along in the Central Bay. LATITUDE/ROB — GETS EVEN GREATER BETTER October, 2009 • Latitude 38 • Page 109
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