__courtesy of the West The first real test of originating: - this: most In its éleven years it has local sailor’s sea savvy, challenging sailing race and — drawn the top sailing talent stamina, boat speed runping it each year “with a of the Pacific Northwest and and capability comes to them Easter weekend When the race was first maximum of efficiency and now rivals the 50-year-old minimum of fuss. Swiftsure in its standing ‘among competitive sailors. Vancouver Yacht proposed there were many Among the glamorous Club. Racing starts who said that a race, in the sailing craft it has attracted Good Friday morning waters of the southern are such as the 12 metre with finish some time Straits, protected by the 265- yacht Weatherly, an ‘on Easter Sunday. mile long breakwater’ of . America’s Cup defender now Vancouver Island, wouldn't sailed out of Tacoma, which It’s the ‘eleventh annual running of the Southern be tough enough. was her name on the win- a ner’s list, Deing the first boat Straits Classic, ‘a sailing Others; who had sailed the _ homein 1977. _extravaganza that has ‘traits during the blustery ‘become a major fixture on Winds and cold sprays of - The Strait of Georgia is. the Pacific ‘Northwest March and April, held that unpredictable in the spring: competitive sailing calendar. the race would be tough It can deliver boredom and Pe Sailing calen enough to test any boat and ‘sheer terror in equal The race, held every ‘S°W- Easter, is the only major > Vancouver Yacht Club = mast, ripped sails and gone COUFSC- quantities. In 1974, one ‘of its quietest years, the..winds oe international race staged out. Since then many a good re So light that only 17 out of the Vancouver area. West racing boat has lost her 0f 144 finished the 125 mile deserves full marks for hard aground leaving. little a doubt about the strength and In 1970 it was so wild that toughness of the strait’s only 22 boats finished with 1974 20 ft. Larson ‘| springtime winds. Seas may many of the non-finishers not be as high asin the more not risking ‘the narrow Commendent open waters of the Swiftsure passage between the finish Lightship race out of Vic- line buoy of the wave- 165 Merc-Cruiser with] toria but their mean chop washed rocks of Point approx. 120 hrs., boat kept | has upset more than a few Atkinson. in dry storage since new, walk | strong sailing stomachs. thru, tinted windshield, new convas, new. bennett trim . we ue tabs. . Seasickness, sail and gear into two courses, a long 127- ; : failure have been common mile route and an 80-mile. ike New $7875 Condition The Straits race is divided on practically every race course for smaller, slower since the Southern Straits boats. 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