the 2008 AGM in pictures
mostly taken by Uncle Al and Andy Douma
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Bill Fyfe (l) and Tom Wharton wait for the AGM to begin.
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The Frisian connection: John de Boer (l)  has come in from London (ON) and Andy Douma from Ottawa
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Ottawa's Bruise Sister, Luscious Luffing Lori gets a welcome from John.
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The meeting is underway: (clockwise from Lori) John, Bob Stevenson (at bar), Leo Van Kampen, Bill, Uncle Al
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And beside Uncle Al, we have Treasurer, Mike Codd, who gives his report.
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Chairman, George Blanchard (r) waits for Secretary, Fred Black, to get details for the Minutes.
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To Mike's left we have Membership Secretary, Kit Wallace, and behind him, David Platt, the CWA's Chief Measurer.
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Two Andrews from afar: Douma from Ottawa, and Haill all the way from Thunder Bay.
We have W newcomer, Scott Ramsay in front of Mr. Haill.
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Are we not a serious-looking group??!!
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In front of Andy Douma, we have Mark Taylor (W7673), the Commodore of the Mississauga SC.
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Andy and Lori check out the Agenda.
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A toast to somebody - perhaps, George Blanchard? That's always appropriate!
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Dinner has begun: (l to r) John, Bill, Lori, Andrew
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Table #1?: (clockwise from left)
Uncle Al, Tom Wharton, Heider Funck, Hans and Mudl Gottschling, Marc Bennett, Julie Seraphinoff, Julia Schonborn
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Table 2?: (clockwise from right)
Mike and Darlene Codd, Dorothy Brockbank, George, Carol Dougall and Kirk Iredale
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Table 3: (clockwise from left) Brian and Erica McLennan, Anne and Fred Black, Kit Wallace and Patsy Poulin
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Table 4: (clockwise from left) Mark Taylor and his wife, Denise Wong, Stephanie and Gary Hirsch (new W's who have come in all the way from St. Joseph on Lake Michigan), Colin Junkin (our CL friend from Coburg)
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Table 5: (clockwise from left) Scott Ramsay, Joanne and Leo Van Kampen from the Conestoga SC, Dave Platt, Bob Stevenson (TSCC)
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Lori and Andrew get a visit from ...
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... Al and ...
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... George.
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The evening is a great chance ...
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... to socialize and to ...
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... talk sailing, of course.
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As has become traditional, we have Marg Buhlman's computerized projector running as background
all night long going through pictures from our sailing year just finished.
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Fun was had ...
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... by all.
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Mark one more time
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Lots to talk about and ...
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... lots of good food to eat.
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MC, Mike Codd, started the awards ceremony with an email from North Bay's Dave and Carol Hansman who ...
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... very much regretted not being able to ...
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... attend this year due to ...
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... business ...
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... commitments in ...
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... Perth, Australia. We particularly missed Dave and Carol because this was the year they won our most prestigious of CWA trophies, the Don Davis Memorial Trophy for years of outstanding service to our Class. It was decided that the trophy would be presented to Dave and Carol, very appropriately, during our 2008 Nationals at ...
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... the North Bay YC.
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Then we took a brief time-out for Uncle Al to ...
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... narrate and promote his regatta favourites.
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Mark displays his Silver spirit award for having participated in 50+ Wayfarer events.
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Our two Gold Award (100+ W events) were Tom Wharton and ...
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... Julia Schonborn.
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Taking over the Bacardi Rum Trophy for the top finish by a Canadian in the Worlds was
Kit Wallace who sailed the 2007 Worlds in Hellerup, Denmark with David Weatherston.
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Andrew Haill was singled out for his display of Class Spirit, and ...
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... accepted the Red Herring Award from ...
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... Mike Codd who also congratulated Andrew on repeating as the winner of the Ted Davis Memorial Trophy (best cruise log of the year) for his outstanding tale: The Quest for Donald Duck - a Lake of the Woods Wayfarer Cruise. Andrew was thus spared having to fly that trophy all the way in from T-Bay.
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Andy Douma was declared our Rookie of the Year, but alas, the Raudaschl Rookie Trophy was missing. The Queen City YC Trophy was present but Sue Pilling was not. Sue was nonetheless acclaimed as our Most Improved Wayfarer of the year.
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2007 marked likely the last time that the amazingly successful duo of ...
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... Marc Bennett and Uncle Al would capture the Wayfarer Gold Cup, the Storer Trophy as a team,
since Marc will be teaming up with Julie Seraphinoff in her Wayfarer for future Wayfarer events.