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I went with her to Nawiliwili, Kauai, to help Bobbi run the 1980 Pacific Cup finish, where she was founding Principal Race Officer. She maintained a position on the Pacific Cup YC board of directors until she died.

In the early '70s, her closest friend and neighbor was Sally Green. After her divorce from Lloyd in 1973, Bobbi and Sally together bought the Coronado 25, Naressia, which they cruised and raced together for many years.

How did I fit into this picture? My first wife, Maralee, and I joined BYC a few months after Bobbi and Lloyd joined. We had a 1939 wood 43-ft Rhodes sloop named Sinergy that I raced. It was a beautiful boat that looked and sailed like a 12-meter. It also leaked like a sieve, especially when it was loaded up by the rig. We pumped a lot when we raced!

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Bobbi crewed for me one fateful night on a Midnight Moonlight Marathon Madness race, with Maralee, and Peggy and Toby Hickman. Late that night after the race, we all went home tired, with the bilge still full of water. Unfortunately, the automatic bilge pump failed during the night, and the boat sank in her slip. Peggy and Toby, Bobbi, and Sally and their extended family all came to the Marina to help. Over a period of about three or four days, we raised her, and Sinergy was racing again in about a month. This is at the same time I was a postdoc at UC Berkeley doing my experiments testing quantum mechanics.

In 1978, Maralee and I divorced. Several years later, Bobbi and I started dating. I first got together with her as part of her race committee. Bobbi and I started cruising and racing together — she mostly cruised, I mostly raced. We made a "pact." She would "teach" me how to cruise, and I would "teach" her how to race.

When Bobbi and I were cruising together on Naressia, I would continuously tweak the sails. She queried me why I was doing this, since we were only cruising. I responded that I found that my viewing a sail that was out of trim was offensive to the senses. It was sort of like listening to a guitar that was out of tune. I asked her, "Do you have a racing guitar that you keep tuned, and a cruising guitar that is out of tune?" She actually understood and bought into my

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