I have said before (and I'll say it again), we sail Sequoia primarily as a performance cruiser. Lots of furniture, usually full water tanks and 60 gallons of fuel. But every once in a while, we take her out racing. This year's Governor's Cup 70 mile race was one of those. Neither of the boats that we race on were doing Gov cup this year, so we threw together a top notch crew and did the race.
Wind was supposed to be really light out of the north, so we provisioned to be out there for a while. Turns out there was a small craft advisory, winds blowing up to 25 knots. Sequoia hit a new speed record with us on board at 10.5 knots and finished the race in 11 hrs 7 minutes. We ended up 19th out of 28 in our class, and midfleet overall PHRF. We felt good about it, safe the whole night, and always in control. Thanks to the super crew for great work!
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