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| Uncle Al accepts the Storer
Trophy from Mike Codd on behalf of himself and
crews, Shannon Shank and Tony Krauss who couldn't make it in from Michigan.. ..by...b |
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| Michigan's Chip
Cunningham
was voted our Most Promising New Wayfarer of
2011, and his acceptance speech was one for the ages: click here to read its text. ..by...b |
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| Best embodying the
Wayfarer
Spirit in 2011 was Detroit's Nick Seraphinoff who thus
won the Red
Herring Award. ..by...b |
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Trudy Davis
again came
in from Guelph to award the CWA's most prestigious
trophy: the Don
Davis Memorial, which is awarded to a Wayfarer
who has made
outstanding contributions to our Class over the years.
This year's
winner, Alan Asselstine, our long-time Cruising
Secretary, was
unfortunately unable to attend.
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| Chip chats with Trudy
before the latter awarded the ... ..by...b |
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... Ted Davis Memorial Trophy for
the year's best
North American cruise log to Uncle Al (r) and
Gary Hirsch (unable
to attend) who - along with support team Chip
Cunningham (above)
and Stephanie Hirsch - impressed
the other Tip
of
the Mitt Adventure participants with the
Wayfarer's amazing
capabilities during the 320-mile sail. Gary and Al's
report was this
year's winning Ted Davis entry.
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| Contnuing to improve
to the
point where they are arguably second to no other
Wayfarer racers in
North America Sue Pilling and Steph Romaniuk were
declared 2011's most
improved Wayafers and thus won the Queen City YC
Plate. ..by...b |
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| Having been polished
by
last year's winner, Julia Schonborn, the Lansdown-O'Brien
Spittoon (for remarkable feats of seamanship) is about to be presented by Mike Codd to ... ..by...b |
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| ... (l to r) Nick
Seraphinoff,
Marc and Julie Bennett, John Cawthorne (and others who
were absent) in recognition of the adventures they had,
sailing over
their new Hartleys' spinnakers as they became familiar
with the
spinnaker launcher. ..by...b |
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| Julie demonstrates
what she
learned in the Hartleys' lecture series: the crew holds the pole and sheet up and out until the helm takes up the tension on the retrieving line. |
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