Update: Chim Chim had a great closing leg and corrected on Fujin by 27 minutes. Congratulations all.
After a great start, Fujin continued tearing it up in the Caribbean 600. I was hoping to say definitively she won the multihull class, but there’s still the Gunboat Chim Chim out there with an outside chance of correcting on her.
If you want to check the final results, they’re here.
What I can say is that she was the third multihull to finish, with the only two ahead of her the two Mod 70s, Argo and Maserati, which Fujin corrected over easily. Only one monohull finished ahead, the Volvo 70 Wizard, and that was only by 22 minutes.
It’s a great result for Greg Slyngstad’s team and for Paul Bieker. I hope that in the hours that Fujin was tied up at the dock and Chim Chim was still on the course there were a few people trying to track down Bieker’s phone number.
Fujin also won the Caribbean Multihull Challenge about a week ago. There’s a great story on it in Sailing Anarchy.
I hope to come up with some juicy details about the 600 in the days to come. Anybody from Fujin who wants to chime in can email me.
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.