Well, our 30 year stash was much greater than I remembered. Here’s what we have to sell and/or give away:

1. A Larsen #l (probably the original sail with the boat) Mylar type fabric (free – you pay shipping) (make shopping bags out it . . .)

2. A Larsen Main Mylar type (free – you pay shipping)

3. A North #2 – good sail, Mylar type, we used it when we first got the boat – now we just use #1 and #3 (make offer)

4. A North “Light” #1 – good light air sail. dacron & mylar, light Velcro hanks (make offer)

5. A North “all purpose” #1 – very good condition – Mylar or similar fabric (make offer) (we have an interested buyer for this sail)

6. A North Dacron Main

7. A Mylar type fabric #4

8. A Rush (Seattle sailmaker) Mylar #1 (free – you pay shipping)

9. Finally, a really cool heavy weather main – full battens, heavy fabric and serious reef points -probably reducing sail by 1/3 – Mylar type fabric – Foil, not hanks (make offer) (we have an interested buyer for this sail)

Note: We’d be open to “test before sending money” on some of the above

email: stevebunnell@comcast.net

Congrats to More Cowbell for their second place in class 9 at this past weekend’s PSSRs!

We’ll try to get some relevant photos to link to, but in the meantime, here’s this:

North Main – good shape, for cruising/beer can racing $25 + shipping
North “Lite” #1 – great light air sail (better with a recut) $50 plus shipping
North #2 – good condition $50 + shipping
Spinnaker (secret weapon!) made of Saran Wrap (or something like it) 1/2oz (or less!) Lots of patches. Don’t fly it in a breeze but a real floater when everything else is drooping! Pay for shipping and it’s yours!
North 3/4 oz Spinnaker. Good shape. $75 +shipping

Contact: stevebunnell@comcast.net

Go get that Moore 24 newsletter goodness by clicking the newsletter link at the top of the page.

Thanks as always to this month’s contributors: Katie Ruesink (#114 Freckle) and Webb Chiles (#40 Gannet). And a big thank you as always to our NW Fleet sponsors Kam Gear and Ballard Sails!

PHRF racing certainly has plenty of room for grumbling about the legitimacy of winners & losers (one of the reasons why you should sail a Moore, one design!), and this past Saturday’s Snowbird Race #5 was certainly no exception. In fact there was even more room for debate than normal, as the second mark was nowhere to be found, leaving the fleet dousing spinnakers, heading upwind, downwind, and finally saying ‘good enough!’

All that aside, Sputnik was in a good place going into the ‘mark’, they hunted around for the ‘mark’ for an acceptable amount of time, and ended up ‘winning’ the ‘race.’

Whether or not the results should count, all I know is that at any given point in the race you would have found Sputnik sailing boat-for-boat with some much larger counterparts. That in itself has to count as a win!

Did I mention it was cold?

The Braden’s have headed East for a summer of adventuring via land and water.

You can follow their adventures with lots of great pics here:
http://www.pressure-drop.us/forums/blog.php?167&blogcategoryid=2

Have a great time guys and don’t forget to bring back a Moore!

If you’ve been thinking about snagging a Moore 24 to join the NW fun, now is definitely the time!

A bunch of boats have come out of the woodwork and been put up for sale. They aren’t going to last long, but if you move fast enough you could have one up from California in plenty of time for the start of the 2012 NW racing season!

Hell, we’d probably even consider doing the road trip for you!

Most of the action is on the Moore Sailors Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moore24sailors/

Given that the 2012 NW Trek hasn’t started up yet, some NW Moore sailors apparently feel the need to go to far-flung places to spread the love:

http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/morgan-larson-is-the-headline-act-again

Congrats to Morgan Larson (#127 Bruzer) who is helming Oman Air in Act 1 of the Extreme Sailing Series, currently sitting only one point out of first.

An Extreme Sailing Series podium finish would be a nice little addition to all those Moore 24 national championships!

Sputnik had another great showing this past weekend in the SBYC Snowbird Series, Race 4, taking 3rd place in the class.

Way to go Sputnik, we will see you out there soon!

Cheers