Sail Like A Girl, Lagopus and Wild Card continue to lead the multihulls, with Sail Like A Girl leaving Banks Island to starboard and Lagopus leaving it to port. In the meantime, dark horse Wild Card lost the lead going inside Hecate and Hunter Islands, then lost a lot of ground in the hours after the Bella Bella checkpoint. Right now all three are relatively slow, with the big question mark as to who will have chosen the right path, Sail Like A Girl or Lagopus. The trimaran Ptarmigan is coming on fast while Wild Card seems to be wallowing a bit offshore.
It’ll be an interesting last 1/4 of the race. Tracker here.
Here’s a little video by Jackie Philpott on the Wild Card program.
Kurt grew up racing and cruising in the Midwest, and has raced Lasers since the late 1970s. Currently he is a broker at Swiftsure Yachts. He has been Assistant Editor at Sailing Magazine and a short stint as Editor of Northwest Yachting. Through Meadow Point Publishing he handles various marketing duties for smaller local companies. He currently is partners on a C&C 36 which he cruises throughout the Northwest. He’s married to the amazing Abby and is father to Ian and Gabe.