Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week day 2



9:54 AM Sun 26 Jun 2011 GMT
'Open 5.70s' start mixes with Catalina 37s' leeward gate rounding - Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week 2011' Rich Roberts &copy
Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week, hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and Long Beach Yacht Club, is being held between June 25 to 27. When Jim Madden and his Newport Harbor Yacht Club crew on Stark Raving Mad arrived at their boat Saturday morning for the second day of racing they ditched the dismal forecast for continuing light wind and proceeded to pack heavier sails. 'We saw the sun was out,' Madden said, knowing that in Southern California rising inland desert temperatures tend to suck in offshore sea breeze for sailing like a vacuum cleaner. True to form, after ...


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