Doug Hart, Snipe Sailor from San Diego

– 1) Your first time on a sailing boat?

I first sailed in 1959 on an old Flying Dutchman sailboat with my father on a very large lake in Nebraska. I was 6 years old.

– 2) Your first time on a Snipe?

My first time in a Snipe was borrowing my good friend, Bob Jackman’s Snipe in 1985 for a sail on Mission Bay in San Diego. I had been sailing Windsurfers for the past 10 years and was excited to sail in a boat with a very competitive and friendly reputation.

– 3) The most bizarre thing that happened in a regatta?

I remember a College National regatta in 1976 sailed in Lasers at Kings Pont New York where the wind died on the run (Windward – Leeward course). The 2 knot current was going in the same direction as the wind (before it died). The entire fleet was carried beyond the leeward mark. At about the same time as the last boat drifted abeam the leeward mark, the wind came up from the same direction and the fleet positions turned inside out. Sometimes it is better to be last !!!

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