Pirates of the Pacific Northwest

Jonathan continues to be an excellent Ambassador for Rocket Boats in the Pacific Northwest showing and sailing his boat as often as he can. He has taken several interested parties out for demo sails in recent weeks, including two couples from Oregon. They've both been in contact with us with a range of questions and I hope that we'll have some additions to the PNW fleet soon. When Jonathan isn't showing his boat he is racing and below is a recent email he sent about the Duck Dodge Race.

"On Tuesday night I motored my boat around through the locks and into Lake Union for the famed Duck Dodge race. Another beautiful day with 8-12 knots of wind with gusts in the upper teens. I got to the start a bit late, and missed the first start (Synergy 1000, C&C 99, Custom 40, and one Melges 24). Then started back in the pack, in the second start (J22s, J24s, Custom 30, Santana 27, Paul Kalina's Rocket, T-birds, M242). It took me one up-wind and then one down-wind leg to move to the front. On the next second down-wind leg, we got a nice breeze, got the Rocket up on a plane at 9.5 knots and pulled away. I even caught a few of the stragglers in the first start. Oh, and by the way, the Duck Dodge theme for this Tuesday night was quite fitting: Pirate night. I even had a meter-square sized Jolly Rogers flag flying."

Thanks for the updates and photos Jonathan!!