Mariquita Book - mk2.5

We found ourselves in a tacking battle with Kentra. We’re working our way up the western Solent and
Mariquita is properly healed over. Kentra is there in her element. It ended up being a really special part of
the race to have that big part of the Mariquita family right along side.
Matty Oates
DIARY ENTRY
That final day wasn’t our best race of all time, but it created one of the most memorable moments of the season, while sailing alongside the beautiful Fife ketch Kentra. The wind was howling and we were cracking along
on a beat under a full mainsail and lower headsails, when Kentra pulled up alongside us to weather on a starboard tack. On board Kentra were a myriad of smiling faces from Mariquita’s close family: owners Ernst and
Doris Klaus, Captain Tim Boagey, Fairlie founder Duncan Walker, tactician and all-around legend Docteur Patrice Clerc, and of course the Silver Fox himself, former Mariquita Captain, Jim Thom, yelling war cries of
“Brave and Tidy” as they swigged in the headsail sheets. M.O.
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