As seen in July 2021 Sailing Magazine
Viva Ensenada
For nearly three-quarters of a century, the Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race
has drawn racers with fun and challenging sailing.
After being sidelined during the long pandemic pause, the annual Newport to
Ensenada Yacht Race in late April marked our long-awaited return to sailboat
racing. We scrambled to make our boat race ready: restocking gear and
re-certifying everything that had lapsed during the hiatus.
Yippee Kai Yay is a lean, mean, racing machine with no fancy galley, so
our provisioning boils down to sandwiches, Cup-a-Soup, coffee, cocoa and the
like. Hot drinks are sacrosanct on an overnight distance race! But one hour
after the race start I realized I had left the kettle at home, and there would
be no boiling anything that night. It was an epic fail. I glumly returned on
deck and announced my screw-up to the rest of the crew. No worries, the crew’s
ear-to-ear smiles could not be erased. We were out on the water again, reaching
in a gentle breeze straight down the rhumbline beneath cloud-speckled skies, in
our favorite regatta of the year. Hot water be damned—we were racing to Mexico.
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