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From: John Rahn <jrahn_at_drizzle.com>
Date: Thu 20 Jan 2000 - 13:16:19 PST
To: olson30@SailPix.com

PNW Olson owners

This is primarily for PNWers, but I'd be happy to include boats from other areas if they want.

As per a request from a non-West Coast Olson owner, I'd like to try to put up on the PNW web site "thumbnail sketches" of the various
Olson 30 racing programs. Please find below some entries you can use as a model to write your own entry; if your boat is among the models feel free to edit it or I can delete the entry if you prefer.

Please email edits/entries to
jrahn@drizzle.com

thanks --

John

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some PNW Olson 30 boats

Here are thumbnail sketches of some of the boats in the Pacific Northwest fleet.

Many of these boats are very close
to the minimum weight of 3750.

Nationals:

1. Barnstormer (#31); skipper Chuck Queen, Ullman sails (Ullman kevlar main). Chuck jumped in to the fleet in 1999. He is an engineer who worked his way through college as an Ullman (Swenson) sailmaker years ago. Previous Partner/Driver Masquerade, 2d in the very first Olson 30 Nationals. He has placed 3d in the Laser North Americans, and is an avid windsurfer. This is a totally amateur program. The boat is the former Ozone with fat-lumpy keel, single-spreader Ballenger mast.
2. War Canoe (#9); skipper Mike Goldfarb, North sails. Mike is a lawyer who maintains several racing programs including an Etchells campaign in San Diego. War Canoe's crew for the nationals included Mark Brink
   (a Seattle professional) and North Sails owner Jack Christiansen.
   Thin keel, single-spreader Sparcraft mast (was double spreader at Nats); completely re-furbished, beautiful boat.
3. Roadrunner (#131); skipper John Hoag, Quantum sails. John is a dentist with many racing credits. For years he was the unbeatable national champion in Hobie 33s; he also helped win the Hobie 33 Worlds and the 1999 US SAILING Offshore Championship (with John Leitzinger, skipper). Roadrunner regularly wins regattas, sailing away from the rest of us. Roadrunner is an all-amateur program; skippering is now shared with part-owner and long-time crewmember Paul Carter. Thin keel, double-spreader mast.
4. Aliens Ate My Buick (#5); skipper John Rahn, mixed Ullman/Quantum sail inventory. John is a professor of music who started racing in 1993 and bought Aliens (his first boat) in 1995. The most raced Olson in the Shilshole Fleet. Team Alien has been an all-amateur program. Thin keel, double-spreader mast.
5. M.O.F (#39); skipper Trevor Hayward, North sails and U.K Sails. M.O.F. is from Canada; Trevor has a distinguished history as a PHRF racer in the Vancouver area. He bought his Olson in 1997 and immediately began winning races. His daughter Jill crews on the boat; she also has an Olympic 470 campaign. M.O.F. won the SOCKS regatta in 1999. Mostly amateur program
   (occasional Pros). Thin keel, single-spreader Sparcraft mast.
   

All top 5 in this year's nationals are owner-driver.

Some other PNW boats:

Splash Tango II, the 1998 champion. Owner Frank Morrison, driver either Bob Pistay (Seattle Quantum loft owner) or Stacey Wilson. Quantum sails.
Won the 1999 San Franciso NOODS and other regattas. Total makeover of a previously noncompetitive boat, now very sleek. Thin keel, double-spreader mast.

Lunchbox (#30); co-owner-drivers Chuck Skewes (Seattle Ullman loft) and Eric Kristen. Ullman sails.
This boat tied for first in the 1998 nationals but lost the tiebreaker. Chuck, a former I-14 ace, now
has an active, successful national career driving keelboats. Eric's J29, racing PHRF, was Boat of the Year. Thick keel, but faired, beautiful dark green hull; double-spreader Ballenger mast.

Crime Scene; skipper Bill Cuffel, Quantum sails. Bill is an engineer and this is an all-amateur program. Bill was unbeatable racing PHRF in his S2-7.9, winning major regattas with straight bullets. He won the 1999 Puget Sound Sailing Championship with results that included 4 bullets. The Red Boat. Thick slick keel, double-spreader mast.

Ozone (#208); skipper John Leitzinger, Ullman sails. John won the 1999 US SAILING Offshore Championship in Annapolis with a crew that included his Ozone folks plus some from Roadrunner and Lunchbox. All-amateur
program, thin keel, single-spreader mast. Received on Thu Jan 20 13:16:55 2000