The annual two-day Swiftsure includes 119 boats this year, competing in five races, from two-day long-haul runs to one-day inshore sprints. All boats got off to a successful spinnaker start Saturday with southeast winds.
Korina Knudson jumped from her boat onto the Victoria Inner Harbour’s dock and waved an emotional goodbye to her teenage son and octogenarian husband as they sailed toward the start line of the Swiftsure Lightship Classic on Saturday.
“This is what we do every month and this is the big sail of the year,” said Korina Knudson.“There are no vacations, there is no downtime, we don’t sail for pleasure, I’ve never been on that boat to putt-putt around the harbour, we race that boat full time.” Another time on the water near Oregon she was “visited by a pod of migrating humpback whales and their calves and that was just the most amazing intimate beautiful moment — one of the big ones of my life — to experience that and see that in its full context. I am just in love with it all.”
She said she rises at 4 a.m. each morning and swims four kilometres and then “cold plunges” for 30 minutes as part of a regime she says she does “just to keep up with my husband” who also scuba dives monthly in part to maintain the boat’s hull.
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