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Crew: Dagny Krüger, Juliette McKenney, Theo Johnston, & Orlando Ljubic
Hometown: Eastsound, WA
Vessel: Carrera 290
Class: The Wind Division
Connect: Instagram
Get to know Team Bowl of Sloop
First thing first. Why race in WA360?
Our team captain is really good at gaslighting her friends into thinking nonstop sailing on a small leaky boat with pedals attached is fun. We like to earn bragging points, we like to feel cool, we like to have unpredictable rodeos in the middle of the night. And most of the time, sailing is actually really enjoyable, even better when you’re stuck on about seven square feet of boat with your friends, chasing people you kind of met on the docks yesterday over hundreds of miles!! Also, where’s the fun in life if we’re not racing to the start line?
What’s your connection to these waters?
We’ve all grown up here, sailing and paddling all around the San Juan Islands. We became friends on the High School sailing team. Since then we’ve sailed many many dinghies and keelboats, having some of the best days of our lives out on the water together! Growing up on an island lends itself to being close with your environment, and the Washington coast has taken up pretty much our whole lives!
Superpowers. Each crew member gets one. What are they and why?
Dagny never sleeps. Is it… insomnia? Anxiety? The water dripping in her face? The voices? The knowledge that her crew once broke the tiller while she was asleep? We may never know.
Orlando is incapable of being pessimistic. You can wake him up at 3:00 AM in the freezing windiness and start talking about the dilemma of determinism (this actually happened) and he’ll still be optimistic and cheerful.
Juliette can summon the wind. Once we were becalmed in the Strait of Georgia, and she stood tall upon the rail and did a wind dance, whispering “Shoooo… Sheeee… Woooo… Weeee…” Not ten minutes later, the wind rose.
Theo is the master rodeo-fixing bow-boy. When we blew up our fabled rainbow kite (RIP), he stood on the foredeck in 40+ knots and caught the spin halyard as it whipped back and forth. He’s also the best at correcting whatever happens to our checkstays when we tack.
Defend your vessel choice for WA360. What makes it so cool and worthy?
The reason we have Loose Cannon is because she was affordable. BUT she’s also proven and a very cool vessel! She’s practically flat on the bottom, a total sled of a boat. Her rig is disproportionally huge, so you can bet she zooms. Her weighted keel lets us power up in heavy air, even with our skinny and understaffed crew. A semi-spacious cockpit lets us do midnight yoga when we start to fall asleep. She’s also proven: if she hasn’t broken yet, she probably won’t break now. At least the crack hasn’t gotten any bigger…
What are your adventure qualifications for WA360? What makes you (y’all) cool and capable?
Dagny grew up aboard boats and taking part in the RAK scene, before skippering a team in the R2AK herself last year, sailing nonstop! Her crew have spent four years intensively competing in dinghies, as well as racing one design keelboats. When we decided to do WA360, we competed together in the Round the County Race, in some pretty heavy air as well as almost no air. Ew…
We’ve done lots of other races and fun little canoodles around the islands together, and we’re exited to keep going!
What is going to break?
Something mysterious and fascinating which we could never have predicted and will astound us at some obscure point in the early morning. It will be the one thing we forgot to pack a spare for.