Duck Dodge, Lake Union, Seattle, WA
I went back to Seattle to take care of business. And now that I have a new camera, I can add to my blog again. By the first week of August, business was finished and it was time for more sailing. I really missed being on boats. Duck Dodges filled the bill. arrr arrr...ducks...bill. With about 100 boats racing on a very small lake, things usually get interesting. There have been many times when boats will get so close that they need to push away from one another. Especially if it's a down wind drift and the wind dies as we all come around the mark. Since there are about 5 different starts for all of the different classes, the other interesting times are when some groups of sail boats cross the lines of another group of boats coming in the opposite direction. Then you will hear a lot of yelling and "Starboard" which means I have the right away and give way to me. It can get tense but that's part of racing.
On this particular Duck Dodge, I was on a 60' classic wooden sail boat which is very heavy. As you can see from the above two photographs, when the wind died, we were still going faster than the other smaller lighter sail boats but not able to maneuver much. Tonnage counts. The other boats had to get out of our way.
Downtown Seattle is so beautiful from Lake Union.
You can see how serious Duck Dodge can be. Notice the swimmers.
The sun starts to set and this is the most beautiful time of the evening as the lights comes up over the city.
After a big raft up (all the boats tied up together in the middle of the lake to socialize and party), we all head back to our individual docks and watch this beautiful city scape. It's truly breath taking. I'm so fortunate to be able to be part of it.
