the
Tim
Dowling Memorial
Regatta
Clark Lake YC
* Sept. 23-24, 2006
Saturday racing pics - 1
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Race 1: The leading
Interlakes round Eagle Point onto a close spi reach
towards mark 3 in the NE corner of Clark Lake.
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Steve Aspery and crew
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Bob and Betsy Bradley
pop the chute on their way to a come-back win in race 1.
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The closely bunched
Interlake fleet ...
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... heads for mark #3.
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Looking towards mark 3
from the RC boat ...
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... on station at the finish line at mark 6,
just west of the club.
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Dan Hockenberry and
Uncle Al cross 2nd in race 1, well back of Dave Nickels
and Emelia Oslund.
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The finish being so near
the club, there was a perfect opportunity for quick,
needed trips to shore.
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Scott Dowling and son,
Cameron (l) took the Rebel 4th (behind Bruce
Nowak and Mark Ortiz), and then it was ...
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... the photographer's
son, Jim Quiniff with Theresa Stoodley.
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Race 2 brought similar
patchy SW winds and ...
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... another start at #3 at the east end of the
lake. Tom Marriott and Mike
Judd (Interlake 909) come up to ...
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... check out the boat
end of the line, as do ...
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... Alan Freeland and
Aimee Barcus.
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Team Aspery: checking
for a favoured line end by luffing head to wind on the
line was not necessarily the definitive answer here, what
with 30° shifts changing the favoured end every minute or
so!
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Last-second
Interlake preps for Brook Smith and Colleen Hughes as
Uncle Al and Dan look on.
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Jack Coleman and Ann
Taylor in Rastafarian
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Tom Marriott
sacrifices the currently favoured pin end with a
port-tack crossing behind Jack Coleman. I liked this
start since it kept you away from the dead spots nearer
the windward shore and if the next shift was - as
anticipated - a port-tack knock, should leave Tom in
fine shape. Going over towards the south shore was a bit
of a lottery play: sometimes there are juicy gusts and
fine port lifts to be had there, but the major danger of
huge dead spots also exists. All in all, it's a lot
easier on the nerves to go up the middle of the lake in
these south winds.
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Bryan and Jim Bradley
(?) move in to windward of Ron Gall and Mike Horvath
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