This year’s famous FIGAWI race was perhaps one for the record books. It was wild, wet, cold, rainy and windy. The several thousand sailors in the race faced the same conditions as many of their sailing friends who were participating in the Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race just a bit further east of Nantucket– powerful NNW winds of 15-25 kts and mountainous seas drove the fleet fast across Nantucket Sound from Hyannis to Nantucket in an epic, wet & windy roller-coaster ride. Of the 210 boats that registered, about 75% of them completed the race due to the crazy conditions. The pursuit-style race with quartering seas and winds were fun conditions for most of the teams planing and surfing like mad all the way across Nantucket Sound. Many of the teams performed quite well, especially the J/24s! Winning their Division D by a landslide was an astonishing performance by the J/24 Mutinous Dogs sailed by Marc Holdaway. For more information, visit http://www.figawi.com/.