Betty found it. She and George told me about it. They have been been looking for it for years. At the last Meeting Betty gave it to me.
If you can get your hands on a copy of the October 1967 Sea magazine and turn to the “The Readers Signal Sea”, the letters section, you will see the following:
Mixed Sailing in Olympia
I am trying to find a way to handicap boats of both monohull and multihull construction so that both can enter the same race. I am interested in handicapping for boats under 26' or at the most, less than 40'.
I intend to start a cup race of some kind in the Olympia area that most yachtsmen could enter. The course I have in mind would cover approximately 30 miles.
I would appreciate hearing from other yachting groups which have faced a similar problem.
Howard Bullpitt
Route 8, Box 68
Olympia Wash.
And so started a chain of events that, three years and a couple of months later, led to the formation of the SSSS. That happened in January 1971.
We have come a long way in the last 34 years. The club has really grown. Now we have many more people grousing about handicapping and those multihulls.