Race #1
as photographed by Guy Hockenberry
commentary on pics plus races 1 to 3 by Uncle Al
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Race #1
course: start near #3 - 5-1-2-5-4-3 - finish off CLYC   winds: SW 4-8 knots
weather: overcast but warm
In addition to Wayfarers, Fleets of Rebels, Interlakes and Sunfish got separate starts - on Saturday, near mark #3.  The eagle-eyed among you will be able to spot the Class symbols hung on the port side of the pontoon RC boat just below the course numbers which will be changed before the first start.
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Roger Shepherd (left) and Uncle Al heave to with the famous Beach Bar just off their starboard bow. Al and Roger gave serious consideration to making a quick beer stop there before the Wayfarer start went - but conservative sailing prevailed, and Al didn't make it to the Beach Bar until Saturday night with Tony and Tom - by land!
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Ooops! Someone the Rebels started early!
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 Waiting for the Wayfarer start: W's from left to right: George Blanchard, Mike Anspach and Uncle Al.
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In the Rebels, helm and crew seem to sit well apart - probably doesn't make much difference on the flat waters.
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Close racing among the leading Rebels just after the start.
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 The Interlakes get ready for their prep as the Wayfarer start is about to go. In Wayfarers, John and Dolores deBoer got off the middle of the line in fine form when starboard was lifted and Al's fight for the previously greatly favoured pin end was not rewarded.- note Bob Frick and Peter Every (far right) who are barely able to cross the line on starboard just before the gun.
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the Sunfish start.
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Meanwhile, John deBoer was playing the shifts beautifully past the club but in the last quarter mile before #5, Al Schönborn and Roger Shepherd managed to find more wind and better shifts to round the windward mark with the lead. The name of the game in these conditions was definitely to find better pressure (wind). Both Al and John did that well on the reach to #1 and the following brief beat from #1 to #2. But on the ensuing zig-zag run from #2 to #5 and then to #4, Al avoided dead spots supremely well while sailing down with every puff and held a comfortable lead as the leaders passed the club on the way to #4.
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The Rebel fleet approaches mark #4 - one drawback of the Rebel (from a Wayfarer perspective!) is its lack of spinnaker!
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The photographer's son, Dan Hockenberry.
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Sailing a borrowed Rebel (4162), Buccaneer ace, Larry Schmida, with Rebel owner, Tim Dowling, as crew, lead last year's Rebel winner, Mark Quiniff (4179), and his family near the finish of race #1.
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Congratulations are in order as Larry and Tim cross the finish line off the club in first place!
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And it appears that young Mary Vorel (4161) with her grandmother, Pat, as tactician,
have nailed 2nd ahead of Mark Quiniff (4179) from Chicago. 
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On the far right, 81-year-old Ben Hassell with Nick Tanis has just finished and may be heading for a sip of the free draft beer between races - as Uncle Al and Roger most certainly did! Dan Hockenberry (4125) is just finishing.
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Uncle Al and Roger Shepherd prepare to get the first-place gun in Wayfarers after holding off John deBoer (and the faster, 19' Interlake - red hull) up the final beat.
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While Al and Roger, and John and Dolores got a head start on the beer, a close race over Wayfarer 3rd finally went in favour of our Cleveland friends, Tony Krauss and Tom Reed.
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Race #2
course: start near #3 - 5-1-2-5-4-3 - finish off CLYC   winds: SW 4-8 knots
weather: overcast but warm
George Blanchard and Mike Codd got off to a great start and it was a race between them and John and Dolores deBoer in the early going. After steadily losing ground off the start, Uncle Al commissioned a weed flush and started to move a bit better. After looking for and finding better wind than George and John, Al S. and Bob Frick made it a four-way race as the boats neared the windward mark (#5). John however, was clever enough to stay right as he approached #5 while Al and George sailed into weeds by going more up the middle. In the end, John and Dolores rounded with a nice 100-metre lead over Bob Frick who came in along the port laymen with a narrow lead over Al and Roger. The latter made a smart departure from accepted wisdom by tacking back to port when they could have laid the mark on starboard. Their reasoning was that even though the long close-hauled course on starboard towards #1 looked to be a one-tack beat from #5, they would be following the whole way in the dirty air of Bob Frick and, right off his bow, an apparently inexperienced racer who had already lost 5 minutes to the leading Wayfarers on the first leg. Furthermore, there were healthy ripples on the water nearer to Kentucky Point (see chart above). The 50 metres put in on port tack proved to be a wise investment as Al had soon passed Bob Frick who was being smothered by the dawdling Rebel, and shortly thereafter the glassy waters past Eagle Point engulfed John in a large dead spot as Al motored past with a wind of his own.
It was at about this point, that the skies opened up as forecast and the jib tickers immediately became useless. That was when Al remembered the can of non-friction spray that Tom Wharton had given him for spraying the tickers if rain was expected. Such "if only" thought were promptly interrupted by Roger who was asking if I had seen John deBoer. For a second, Al couldn't understand what Roger meant - John was bow to bow with us, about 100 yards to leeward, wasn't he? Er, no, he's less than two feet to leeward... Before we knew it, John had gurgled through to leeward and by the time the rain stopped as we neared #1, John was ahead again by about 50 metres.
The short beat to #2 brought increased pressure and we got to enjoy some serious (if brief) hiking. Here, Al definitely got the better of the shifts and John's 50-metre edge was soon history. The boats appeared to be about even when Al finally tacked to avoid the backwind of a seriously pinching Rebel. Al would have tacked sooner but the lovely female crew aboard the Rebel was making the dirty air more palatable... Anyway, Al was now calling starboard on John who went for it but had to bear away wildly at the last second to avoid Al's bow which was aiming for the aft third of John's boat. Muttering "You owe us one!", Al continued on for a few lengths before tacking back to port. John meanwhile, in his frantic escape manoeuvres, had managed to sail down into the dirt of the pinching Rebel with the cute crew. By the time John had decided that he wouldn't lay #2, and tacked back across, Al was able to cross on port and round #2 in first place with John and Bob Frick close behind.
Seeing that several Rebels who had cut the corner on the way to Kentucky Point and #5, were totally becalmed, Roger and Al sailed straight downwind well past the point before gybing to go up the middle of the lake to #5. John, Bob, Mike Anspach, George Blanchard and Tony Krauss meanwhile were bringing fresh wind from astern. As they cut inside Al at the point, they were going to pass him if their wind held. But then they joined the ranks of the becalmed as Al held a fairly steady breeze and pulled away to a big win.
Meanwhile, George came out of the mess in 2nd around #5, a position that seemed pretty secure when John  hit #5 and took forever to do a 360 with his spi up - he may have added some more penalty turns for fouling a Rebel after that - I can't remember! But after that John and Dolores played the puffs beautifully to get right back into contention only a couple of lengths from George at #4. After that, John was not to be denied as he got past George and ended up with a comfortable 2nd over George and Mike.
It seemed that after yet another shore/beer break there would be no time for a third race before dinner - and it looked as though we would get more rain. But PRO, Bruce Nowak surprised us (pleasantly!!) by setting up for one more short race in the east half of the lake:
Race #3
course: start near club - 5-6-4- finish off CLYC   winds: WSW 10-12 knots
weather: threatening rain but still quite warm
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Roger and Al made no mistakes in this one: first off the start, choice of where to go for the best wind, smarts to avoid weeds in mid-lake near #5. First around #5 with a healthy edge and then down in puffs, up in lulls for a runaway victory. John and Dolores deBoer again nailed second place over George Blanchard with Mike Codd.
John and Al lucked in, in another department, as we were permitted to use in the water "haul-outs" for the night - these being a cradle on a slanted track that is winched out to submerge the cradle to let the boat slide on, and then winched back in and up to let the boat sit clear of the water for the night. A beautiful set-up which we truly appreciated!!!
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Wayfarer results
Regatta report
Saturday on shore - 1
Saturday on shore - 2
Sunday on shore - 1
Sunday on shore - 2
Sunday afloat - 1
Sunday afloat - 2
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