Looking forward to this Saturday's race. My son and I will be on a double surfski ("Millenium") owned by the Bellingham Race Club. We've never been in salt water or in the boat more than a half-hour at a stretch. So if conditions are "iffy" we'll resort to our regular surfskis.
For some reason this race is a personal favorite. It's long, hard to get to and quirky. Maybe because it's kind of an underdog race. It almost died out, but has a really long history. One of the "founding families" showed up in force last year from all over the West Coast and did a huge BBQ after the race. I understand that it used to be more of an "algea-sniffing" party in which participants lazily paddled and stopped half-way around for a bite at a friendly residence.
