Salish 200 Update – also the Salish 100!

Ed. Note It seems that this non-race scheduled for June 26 is evolving on the fly. This from organizer Jason Andrews: “Kurt – As FYI only, we’ve expanded the number of “courses” to get some of the smaller boats involved:(see  https://www.facebook.com/pg/sailhamachi/posts/?ref=page_internal ).“

There are now also two optional 100-mile courses utilizing our natural (island) buoys – so cool. Here’s the text from the Facebook post:

SALISH 200 UPDATE: Thank you all for the interest and comments. In an effort to increase participation for all boats, we have increased the number of scored courses:

Puget Sound 100: For boats that start off of Point Hudson and complete a circumnavigation of Vashon Island finishing off of Marrowstone Lighthouse.

Salish 100: For boats that start off of Point Hudson and complete a circumnavigation of the San Juan Islands finishing off of Marrowstone Lighthouse.

Salish 200: For boats that start off of Point Hudson and finish off of Point Hudson after rounding the San Juans and Vashon Island.

The rules are still simple:

Start line: off of Point Hudson Marina pier (Port Townsend) taking the pier to port and a mark to starboard.

Start time: Friday June 26th at 7pm GPS time (0300 Zulu).

Finish cut off: Sunday June 28th at 9pm (50 hours of racing)

Crew limit: 5 per boat in honor of Covid-19

Course: Figure 8 around the San Juan Islands (RTC marks) and Vashon Island. Direction and order is entirely up to you: you can start going north or south and transit the islands clockwise or counter clockwise.

Marks: Boats shall record their GPS time by taking a picture of a GPS enabled device when passing any of the following weigh points:

– Patos Island Lighthouse: crossing Longitude 122.95 deg W north of Latitude 48.79 deg N
– Neil Point Vashon Island: crossing Longitude 122.49 deg W south of Latitude 47.33 deg N
– Marrowstone Lighthouse: crossing Latitude 48.101 deg N after rounding one of the above marks
– Point Hudson Finish: crossing Longitude 122.75 deg W between Latitude 48.113 and 48.116 deg N after round all marks listed above

Scoring: All boats must record their times when passing the marks listed and email them to hamachiracing@gmail.com. Finish order (time adjusted based on PHRF) will be posted for each boat that completes one or more of the listed course. Boats that do the Salish 200 will be scored in either the Puget Sound 100 or Salish 100 depending on which one they complete first.

Trophies: There will be virtual trophies listing the top three finishers for each course.

There are promises of a web site – when I get that info I’ll pass it along.

Kurt Hoehne

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.