Baja Ha-Ha XXVII

HA-HA XXVII ENTRIES OFF TO A ROBUST START

Time to step up to the Ha-Ha plate?

Seventy-six paid entries were received in the first 12 hours of sign-ups for the November 1 Ha-Ha. This is a significantly higher number than the typical average of 64 first-day entries.

Of the 76 entries, 71 are monohulls. They range in size from Darron Byers Tacoma-based Ranger 33 Ranger Rick, to Bill Thorpe’s Huntington Beach-based 59-ft research sailboat Argo.

Monohull entries encompass the entire spectrum from heavy cruising vessels, such as Geoffrey Campbell’s Rafiki 37 Pelagia from Livermore, to Garry and Susan Pawlitski’s wonderfully named J/169 Sugar. She’s 55 feet. Most boats are sloops somewhere in between, with a few split rigs in the mix. Curiously, the most common boat in the fleet so far is the Big Bang for the Buck Catalina 36. There are four of them.

The smallest multihull is Cool Change Ed Neiman’s Gemini 37 from Homewood, while the largest is Steve Skolnik’s Leopard 58 Wine N Down from Sonoma. Probably the fastest is Kevin and Katie Millet’s custom 55 Kalewa from Kaui, on her fourth Ha-Ha.

What’s the most important thing to owners of a ‘kid boat’? That there be other kid boats around. To date, there are six ‘kid boats’ that have signed up for the Ha-Ha, with a total of 10 kids ranging in age from one to 15.

For a complete list of the current fleet, see the 2021 Entries. Be sure to read the Notice of Rally and/or click to Sign Up Here.

Speaking as the Grand Poobah of the Ha-Ha, I can say that I, along with Assistant Poobah Patsy ‘Le Reina Del Mar’ Verhoeven of the Gulfstar 50 Talion, and Doña ‘Chief of Security’ de Mallorca, am humbled by everyone’s interest. We, as well as the crew of the mothership Profligate, and our various supporters, will do all we can you make your Ha-Ha experience as enjoyable as possible.