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The 2004
Canadian Wayfarer Nationals |
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| John and
Dolores de Boer bear away for Peter Kozak in pre-start
action. ... |
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| Nick
Seraphinoff and Joe Blackmore ... ... |
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| ... are off to
a lovely pin end start while Mark Taylor (7376)
appears to be in great shape at the slightly favoured
boat end. A poor start for John de Boer (r)
but he will recover very nicely. ... |
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| Nick continues
to move very well. ... |
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| (l to r)
John Cawthorne, Nick, Dwight Aplevich, Mike Codd ... |
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| While Hans
Gottschling (938) sticks with the left side, four
boats have tacked away to clear their air: (l to
r) Peter Kozak, Roger Shepherd, Tim Bider and
Uncle Al who got a poor start and for whom things
looks unpromising at this point. ... |
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| Nearing the
windward mark just to the left of the rhumbline: (l to r) Dwight (4606), Hans with Mark off his bow, and John Cawthorne (3654) ... |
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| Peter and
Annelies (300) look good as they near the starboard
layline ahead of Roger Shepherd and Joanne who ... ... |
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| ... in turn are
staying nicely ahead of Uncle Al and Marc Bennett
(3854). ... |
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| Peter and
Annelies remain in fine upwind form. ... |
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| Hans
Gottschling and Pedro Santos keep a very good look-out
as they near the starboard layline. ... |
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| KIt Wallace and
Anna Wharton come in on starboard. ... |
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| Photographer
Sid wasn't fast enough to capture Heider Funck and Tom
Wharton who went left and rounded with a big lead.
Meanwhile, John de Boer has overcome his abysmal start
and will round second, closely followed by (l to r) Dwight, Mark,
Doug Netherton (1366), Roger (7700) and another
unidentified boat beside him. ... |
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| Not a good
first beat for Paul and Alan Laderoute (7380) and
Uncle Al who round among the tail-enders. But many
boats are bunched just ahead, so Marc and Al (3854)
decided, even before rounding, that an early gybe
would result not only in clearer air, but also in a
strategic advantage (starboard) when the fleet
re-converged near the leeward gate. ... |
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| As Al sails off
on the port gybe under Nick's boom (864), the rest of the fleet remains on starboard, including Nick, Paul and Roger (7700). ... |
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| Nick gybes to
port behind Peter (300). Roger (7700) has also gybed
to port but has already lost Al (red spi) who has
gybed back so as not to get too far off the rhumbline.
Al already has his beady little eyes on Mark Taylor (r)
who is - at this point - Al's nearest series rival,
and who is coming closer! ... |
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| (l to r) the
Roger
- Al duel continues while the latter is patiently
waiting to move up enough on Mark (7673) to be able to
sail higher and faster and come out ahead of Mark's
bow, preferably before the two-length zone around the
mark, Hans (938) with Doug under his boom. ... |
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| A running duel
between Mike Codd and John Cawthorne (3654) ... |
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| And another
between Hans (nearer the camera and Nick ... |
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| Ah! Here are
Heider and Tom (6) looking great as they approach the
gate in the lead with John de Boer right astern.
Dwight (far left) continues to move well and
will be nicely placed to get the inside track around
the right-hand gate mark. Also doing nicely are Kit
(1037) and Hans. ... |
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| Still mainting
a comfortable edge, the leaders (Heider and Tom) do a
snappy but relaxed spinnaker douse, well away from the pressures which will face a bunch of boats that will round almost together behind them. |
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2004
Canadian Wayfarer Nationals |