| the 2009
annual awards
in pictures mostly taken by Julia and Al Schonborn ...... |
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| As the background slide
show
continues, MC Mike Codd begins the proceedings. ..... |
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| Bronze Awards - for having
participated in at least 20 W events - went to Ottawa's
Lori Beehler ... ..... |
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| ... Al Nichols from
Conestoga,
and ... ..... |
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| ... Alastair Ryder-Turner of the
Mississauga SC. ... |
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| George Blanchard (l) presents the Gold Award (100+
events!!!) to Tom Wharton. ... |
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| Also earning his Gold Level was John de
Boer (l). ... |
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This year, our executive
decided to re-dedicate the Lansdown-O'Brien
Spittoon
(inset). It
will henceforth be awarded for "feats of unique
seamanship". Above, we
have the 2008 winner, Alastair Ryder-Turner going back
to the 2008
North Americans and giving us a fine tale of spinnaker
problems
overcome. Unfortunately, we seemed jinxed in the trophy
dept. this
year: if the winner was present, the trophy was not -
and vice versa.
Hence the Spittoon inset!
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| Rob Wierdsma was the CWA's 2008 Rookie of
the
Year. But that trophy appears to have gone missing, so we
had Rob pose
with the Red Herring
Award
instead, which was in fact won by ... ... |
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| ... Vancouver's Nick Parker who this year
almost
single-handedly resuscitated the West Coast Wayfarer
Fleet. ... |
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| Another missing trophy was the Queen City YC tray which goes to the Most Improved racer of the year and was won by ... ... |
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| ... Conestoga's Al Nichols who got to pose
with
Mike while clutching the Storer
Trophy
instead. Also earning serious Most Improved consideration
were the team
of Andrew Haill (Thunder Bay) and Lori Beehler (Ottawa). ... |
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| The actual winner of the Storer Trophy (best aggregate score from
the four major
North American Wayfarer events) was Uncle Al - the only Wayfarer to attend all four of the events. Unable to attend were Al's four great crews... ..... |
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| Nick Seraphinoff who helped
Al
sweep the US Nationals held at Rock Hall in June ..... |
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| ... Dolores de Boer's
daughter,
Michele, who helped Al to take 2nd place at the Canadian Nationals held at the end of June in North Bay ... ..... |
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| ... young Angus Wilson (13)
who
made his first Wayfarer experience a roaring success as he
and Al tied Frank Goulay and Kim Bergevin for victory in the Ontarios held as usual at the Lac Deschênes SC in mid-July, and ... ..... |
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| ... Dave Hansman (2nd from left) who
helped Al get a
share of the North American championship with Heider Funck (r) and Tom Wharton. ..... |
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| Andrew Haill, the 2007
winner of
the Ted Davis Memorial
Trophy
(best log of the year), brought the trophy and its lovely case from Thunder Bay but unfortunately ... ..... |
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| ... this year's winner, Jim
Fraser of Nova Scotia, was unable to attend. ..... |
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| Trudy Davis had the
engraved Don Davis
Memorial Trophy (years of
exceptional service to the Wayfarer Class) all set to present to ... ..... |
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| ... Dick Harrington, but
inclement weather prevented Dick from attending. Above,
you can see
Dick, sailing solo as he often does, in his beloved Blue Mist (W887) in very "clement" weather on the Chesapeake Bay. |