Not often do I get to deliver the same boat twice. I delivered this boat after another Oregon Offshore 10 years ago. “Bums Rush” is a very fine example of a real NW classic. Built and owner finished Cascade Yachts yard was located in Portland Oregon where they have since proliferated all over from. Following the success of the other Portland based boat “Raindrop” and her claiming overall honors in the 2008 Pacific Cup this Cascade 36 was a stripped down racing machine. She had just won the Oregon Offshore and my crew were heading to beautiful Victoria BC to bring her to Astoria where she could be sailed the rest of the way up the river by her owner.

My crew on this one were friends. Lane was coming from Portland and is someone I have known for about 15 years and the rest of the crew were a young couple looking to sail their Westsail 32 to Mexico in the coming fall. Skooter and Yuki were very exited to get out to sea.

We grabbed some provisions and geve the head a cleaning..a 36 foot race boat with a crew of 6 or 8 will pretty much destroy a cheap Jabsco head. It was the same on the J109 I brought back from the same race.

Provisioned up and a forecast showing settling seas we were glad to be able to have a civilized motor out the strait before the shot down the Washington Coast.

A fill up in Neah Bay and we were out.

more to come