Jonathan McKee and team aboard Dark Star (Team Pure and Wild) passed the only checkpoint on the R2AK course, about 100 miles ahead of the next competiors, Elsewhere on the outside of Vancouver Island and Fashionably late on the inside. There’s still a lot of race to go, but Pure and Wild is looking very strong.
In other news, Sailish’s new adopted boatload of teenagers, Team Rite of Passage, is hanging in there in 14th and they’re just about at the west tip of Thurlow Island.
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.