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Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club * Aug. 27-28, 2005 Sunday: on shore by Uncle Al and Marc Bennett |
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| Geoff Edwards (r)
and Mike Codd discuss the aft tank on Geoff's Mark III
while their
crews ... ... |
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| ... Dave and Jane
Codd find
better things to do. ... |
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| The discussion
continues. ... |
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| Lou Scaglione ... |
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| Not much wind as yet
so
that this is a good time to dry out ... ... |
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| ... yesterday's
spinnakers. ... |
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| The light southerly
breeze
slowly makes its way closer to shore as we all wait. ... |
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| Bob Kennedy (l)
and
his son, Scott (r) are about to show John de
Boer their
overnight emergency ... ... |
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| ... centreboard
repair: the
lighter section represents the part that got ground
away when the board
came down on Hwy 401 between London and Toronto.
Yesterday they tried
sailing with that much board missing. Slow!!!! ... |
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| Sue and Al admire
the
impressive repair job, ... |
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| Ted Lacelle (l)
and
Bastian Pfannkuche (a recent arrival from Germany) ... |
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| Ivan and Suzanne
Pedersen
and ... ... |
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| ... son, Chris,
finally
made it to their first event of 2005!! ... |
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| This lack of wind is
for
the birds!!! ... |
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| The crew does all
the hard
work. ... |
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| Waiting for wind: (l
to
r) Doug Netherton, Ivan Chris and Suzanne
Pedersen ... |
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| After finding the
new Mike
Mac-cut jib hard to use in yesterday's waves, Stefan
and Tom will go
back to
their "old" jib, and have talked Marc into having SHADES
try
out the difficult jib today. ... |
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| (l to r) Marc
Bennett,
Tom Wharton, and W600 support team, Heider Funck ... |
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| Heider gives Tom's
tweaking
the professional eye. ... |
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| Doug (l) and
Marc
put the twitchy jib on SHADES. ... |
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| With Annelies Groen
unable
to sail today, Peter Kozak's wife and former crew,
Linda, takes a ... ... |
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| ... quick on-shore
spinnaker refresher course. ... |
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| Peter appears in
time to
supervise. ... |
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| The wait for wind is
almost
over. ... |
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| PRO, Jake Starr, and
his
lovely girlfriend/assistant, Dianne Wright, announce
the good news -
start in an hour! ... |
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| No Fred today - so
Michael
Kachkovsky and Kate Linkova will be sailing Rusty
Scuppers. ... |
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| Kit Wallace is set
to go. ... |
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| As is George
Blanchard. ... |
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| Not much wind at the
dock
but Jake has assured us that it's better out on the
lake. ... |
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| After the racing,
there
were a couple of protests and most of us had nothing
better to do than
to watch fellow sailors ... ... |
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| ... at work. ... |
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| Note the increased
wave
action reflecting ... ... |
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| ... the fact that
... ... |
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| ... a nice lake
breeze ... ... |
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| ... has filled in!! |
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