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Fanshawe Yacht Club * June 24-25, 2006 Race 6 pics by Rick Goldt and Uncle Al |
| Sunday morning brought
light SE winds, and a humane Rick Goldt started us just
north of the
swimming beach where we could have a beat to mark B off
the Race Hut
rather than to a windward mark close to the windward
cliffs past Wye
Creek. The fight for the Canadian title had effectively
been reduced to
a duel between Al (2-1-1-1) and Dwight (4-2-2-1). Today
was Marc's turn
to helm aboard SHADES, and we managed to arrive
about 30
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| Timely
arrivals - about 2/3 of the fleet - jockey for position
during the
countdown. ... |
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| Today,
Leo
Van Kampen, is sailing with his wife, Joanne, instead of
their son,
Daryl. ... |
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| I
believe
this may have been the start - with Jens (7663) in great
shape. ... |
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John and Dolores
(l)
have moved well and hold a comfortable lead over Mike
Codd and Jens
Biskaborn as the fleet reaches along the east shore
towards the gybe
mark. Marc and Al (r) lie 7th but have sailed
low and further
away from the dangerous windward shore - note apparent
mast height - in
hopes of passing a boat or two, not to mention getting
inside at the
gybe mark.
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| John and Dolores move
delicately as they round the gybe, leading but in a soft
spot. It is no
doubt cheering them to note that Jens and Mike will be
too busy
fighting each other to be able to concentrate fully on
catching the
leaders! ... |
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Indeed, Marc came
up at
the last minute while the windward boats hit a lull
and each other, and
has moved into 4th while the rest of the fleet,
similarly becalmed sits
at the mark. While Mike and Jens fight it out for 2nd,
John and Dolores
roll on towards a race 6 win.
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Starting beat #2,
John and
Dolores (r) have a big lead, but are playing
with fire here. No
matter how nice the wind may look out in the middle,
John and Dolores
should be putting some of their big lead onto each
tack (i.e. stay
between their nearest pursuers and the next mark).
Even if this means
tacking off a lift or giving up on expected better
winds - it's what
Stuart Walker means when he advises: "Spend your
lead!" Here, John should
tack immediately! click
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"Yah!" I used to
hear
my Junior Sailors argue, "But look at the great winds
I got by going
out here!!" "Yes, but it's a risk that you didn't need
to take." Here,
John could have defended against a huge starboard lift
by putting half
or even only a third of his big lead to windward of
Mike and Jens, then
tacked again, and still reached this great wind well
before the other
two. "Don't be greedy!" Stuart Walker wisely says.
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| Mike and Kirk have
tacked
into the big port tack lift that Jens has yet to reach. ... |
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| Marc and Al were so
far
back that they sailed into the port lift almost
immediately after
rounding. This was not what they wanted, what with the
three leaders
all being off to the left and getting the inside on this
lift. Still,
it's a nice breeze! ... |
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| Quite the nice breeze
coming in off Jens and Sharon's bow as they pass the RC
boat on their
way up the second beat. ... |
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| Lured by the
possibility of
better breeze, many boats went almost at right angles to
the rhumb line
to get here - usually a low percentage move! ... |
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| Scott and Paul Town
(9239)
were with us on the Sunday but did arrive even later
than Marc and Al. ... |
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As Al Nichols (l)
still
dawdles up the 2nd beat (he must have started really
late!), John de Boer continues his horizon job as he
and Dolores near
the gybe mark for the second time. Marc (3rd from
right) is
again taking the low road away from the shore and will
move into ...
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| ... 2nd place. John
and
Dolores, meanwhile, have just rounded onto the final
short beat to
their first-place finish. click here for full-size pic; then click Back button to return to this page ... |
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| Bob and
Peter relax after race 6 as do ... ... |
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| ...
Jeff and
Vera, while we all wait for the ... ... |
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| ...
late Mr.
Nichols to complete ... ... |
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| ... his
last
time around. ... |
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| Leo and
Joanne ... ... |
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| ...
look
good as ... ... |
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| ...
they
near ... ... |
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| ... the
finish line. ... |
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| The
happy
winners, John and Dolores de Boer, look ... ... |
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| ...
pretty
pumped up. |
| Index | |
| results report photos: shore pics - 1 shore pics - 2 awards Bobby Hampton action shots |
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