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Hi' I am Don Lazarz, owner of a J-29, named Touche'. I'm struggling to find crew for the Rum Races, starting June 17. I can teach you anything on the boat. I was a sailmaker for 20 years but racing since 1967. I am retired and have time to sail my own boat. The boat is well appointed now with all new gear and restored, and safe. New sails also.

Bye the way, Barbarian was named after my mother Barbara.

I was on that race and many races before and after. I was Donny on the Barbarian, and you notice that I never got yelled at. I was also on races in the SORC and FORC that year and I always had to go up the mast when a halyard was screwed up. I was also bowman and had to the wettest and most disgusting work over and over, and hit in the head with the spin pole, since we only dip pole gybed. Herb was squished between our transom and Red Adair's Blowout as the committee boat. We got forced up and caught his anchor line at the bow and Herb went outside the stern pulpit to cut it. And that big bow came in and squished him, a 75 foot Hatteras, maybe bigger. I was about 14 or 15 that year. Thanks, and I work as a sailmaker at Banks in Kemah. Donny Lazarz. And I had to grow up with my dad, big Don, all my life, and he is still alive and my mother in Houston.