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Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club * Aug. 27-28, 2005 Sunday race pics - 2 by Marc Bennett and Uncle Al |
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Lots of strategic
and/or
tactical moves are possible here as John and Dolores
de Boer (7351)
work to hold off Kit Wallace and David Weatherston
near the finish. The
one thing Kit doesn't want to do here is to keep
sailing where he's
going now, since that offers no hope of getting
through (unless John is
kidnapped by aliens very soon!!) Actually,
if both John and Kit
are sailing at least two lengths high of the
starboard end of the
finish line, Kit has John trapped (gybing or bearing
away by John here
would almost certainly foul Kit), so that Kit could
hold his course,
push John past the layline, gybe smartly for the
line and have a good
shot at passing John. Other Kit options, depending
on the exact
location of the finish line in relation to these two
boats might
include, trying to pass John to windward or gybing
to port right now!! That
is one of the fun things about racing, in my
opinion: the fact that
there are situations like this where the racing can
become a most
exciting battle of wits and boat handling
skills!!
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| In this instance, Bob and Scott Kennedy
(3571) and ... ... |
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| ... (l to r) Doug
Netherton,
Michael Kachkovsky and Mike Codd were close ahead at
the
favoured pin end of the finish line and further
complicated the
equation. ... |
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| Wayfarers with
Toronto
skyline ... |
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This photo underscores the reason why
photographic
evidence has to be checked for things like angles:
the results
from the RC for race 5 have
John beating Kit here. Hard to believe, isn't
it???!!! (Any
corrections, John or Kit?? I am certain these pics
are from race 5!!)
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| A similar classic
situation
between Ivan and Chris
Pedersen (7350) and Hans Gottschling with John
Weakley. Note how nicely
John Weakley has the W938 spinnaker trimmed, with its
foot well clear
of the jib (probably because the pole is well further
forward than
7350's). .. |
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| Bringing the pole
too far
aft closes the slot between spi and
jib as can be seen on Akvavit (7350). Here
Hans and John are
coming up to try to take Ivan's wind, but ... ... |
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| ... alas for Hans and John, Ivan and Chris
still beat them
across the line!! ... |
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Another exciting
finish in
the
making: Dave Platt and Lou Scaglione (7218) have Sue
Pilling and
Stephan Romaniuk trapped where they can't gybe to
port and cross in
front of Dave. Sue will be OK with this as long as
she can reach the
two-length zone around the starboard end pin at the
finish without
having to gybe. Dave's options are to some degree
governed by rule 17:
if he has become overlapped from clear astern and
within two lengths
of Sue, he must not sail above proper course unless
in doing so, he
promptly sails astern of Sue, i.e. his luff is
clearly a manoeuvre to
sail astern of Sue and try to pass to windward.
Interestingly enough,
in this
instance, in a very close finish, Sue lost not only
to Dave Platt but
also
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| ... to Reg Bunt, who
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| ... has starboard as
the
boats converge. Once they "are about to pass or round"
the finish mark
at the pin end, rule 18
will
apply and Sue will be entitled to room as an inside
overlapped boat
even though she is on port and Reg is on starboard. ... |
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| Ted Lacelle and
Bastian
Pfannkuche complete a pretty scene as they near the
finish in pursuit
of ... ... |
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| ... Thomas Vendely
and
Steve Szenasi. ... |
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| Note the angle of
the
finish line as seen from the "photography boat" (SHADES
hove to)
as race 5 nears its conclusion. This angle might
explain why Kit
appeared to have beaten John earlier. ... |
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| Scott (l)
and Bob
Kennedy take a break while the RC sets up for race 6. ... |
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| Sue and Steve feel
the
effects of a breeze that is piping up a bit ... ... |
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| ... at times. ... |
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| The Taylor brothers,
Mark
and Paul, backlit nicely. ... |
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| Race 6, the end of
the
first run as seen from the leading SHADES. ... |
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The Taylor
brothers
complete a nice 3rd-place rounding that leaves their
options open: they
can tack or possibly manage to pinch out over
2nd-place Stefan Larson.
4th-place Kit Wallace already has his mainsail in
for a beat but has
nearly 90° of turn left to do before his sail will
start doing any
work. If Kit was afraid of hitting Mark Taylor, he
might have been wise
to follow the Stuart Walker advice to "slow down and
win", i.e. get to
the mark a bit later (approach it wider, put the
board and spi down too
soon, etc.) and then make a smooth, speedy rounding.
Instead, Kit will
now virtually have to tack right away since
he'll be in the
Taylors'
and Stefan's wind shadows and going very
slow by the time he
reaches closehauled!! Actually, it turned out that
this faux pas cost
Kit nothing since he was DSQ for being over early at
the start anyway!!!
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| Alastair and Andrew
prepare
for a 5th-place rounding ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Peter and Linda. ... |
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| As we neared the
finish of
race 6, the lake breeze had filled in nicely. The
fleet looked so
pretty on the sparkling waters that even in such a
close race, Marc and
I got the camera out and recorded the event in pixels. |
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