Racing One-Design on San Francisco Bay

ByChet

I bought J/24 Nixon was Cool in 2004 to start racing one design, after sailing a lot of handicap races. I couldn’t change her name because she was a winning boat (superstition says you can’t change the name of the winner) and she was also a legend in the bay. Many J/105 skippers in San Francisco had started sailing on Nixon. 2004 was a training year and ended up near the bottom of the season rankings but in 2005 we managed a 5th overall even after breaking the boom and missing 4 races.

2015 Summer Season Race Results. Nixon came 5th overall.

We had a great racing crew with Jon, James, Osman, Aude, Munzie and many others. Even had tshirts and hats made! I bought Stops the following year and stopped racing Nixon that often and finally sold her in 2010.

Great shot of us racing upwind by Lyons imaging
Great pumpkin regatta, where we came 3rd in class, obviously scaring away the competition
Just about to round the downwind gate on a race . Photo by Linda Tilton.
My mum painted this amazing water color.
Another great water color painted by my mum.

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