User:Rieraney

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I spent my childhood racing small boats in and around the Chesapeake Bay. Mostly I crewed for my father including the Albacore World Championships in Plymouth, England in 1973. Then mostly windsurfing and the like until my husband and I bought our first cruising boat together about 10 years ago. We fixed that up, sailing locally in the Puget Sound area, and sold it to buy a ocean-cruising-capable boat - Phoenix. Phoenix was built in 1967 by Einar Ohlson in Goteberg, Sweden. She is a late CCA racing boat 40'9" on deck, a cutter-rigged sloop (inner forestay) - quite similar in design to the better-known Rhodes Reliant. She draws 6' 6", has a beam of 11', and displaces approximately 13 tons. The steel hull was made in Holland. She has had many names, been sailed from Northern Europe to South America by Seven Seas Sailing Association Commodors, has been through the canal, and then lived in California for many years. She has raced twice in the Bermuda cup, in 1968 and again in 1971. Her racing number was 1776. In 2008 we did a shakedown trip from Washington state to Hawaii and back and are now preparing for a more extensive Pacific cruise.

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