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 ... ... |
... 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. |