| the 2007 Canadian
Wayfarer Nationals June 23-24 * Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club Saturday: race 1 photos by Ricky Starr and Boris Kuzmin ... |
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| The start of race 1: note
how
Kit Wallace (1037) and Mark Taylor (7673) are off to great
starts. ... |
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| As I recall, the course was
windward-leeward, two sausages with a downwind
finish. -
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| Mark and Paul Taylor (7673)
took
the early lead with excellent upwind speed, and can be
seen here,
nearing the finish line, having held their lead throughout
the race,
and sailing a virtually error-free race. - click here
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| Mark and Paul are about to
...
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| ... win the first race of
the
2007 Canadian Nationals, leaving ... - click here
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| ... Uncle Al with Marc
Bennett
(red spi), and Heider Funck with Tom Wharton (600) to ... ... |
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| ... fight it
out for
2nd place. Above, Al sails just high enough to be able
to stay between
Heider and the finish line. ... |
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| Heider finally gives up and
heads for the mark end of the finish line, leaving ...
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| ... Marc (r) and Al to go for
the boat end
uncontested. ... |
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| Fine form for Tom (r) and Heider, while
... ... |
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| ... strictly speaking, Al (l) should be raising
his pole
here. It'll be close but ... ... |
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| ... Marc and Al ... ... |
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| ... have edged out Heider
and
Tom for 2nd place. ... |
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| A smile of relief from
Uncle Al
as SHADES gets
her beep.
Behind Heider, we can see ... ... |
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| ... Alastair Ryder-Turner (r) and son, Andrew,
who made it a
close three-way finish finishing only a boatlength behind
Heider. Not
far behind them was John Cawthorne (3654) with Charles
Wakefield in 5th. ... |
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| Team Ryder-Turner about to
finish ... |
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| Happy to have rescued a 2nd
is
Uncle Al. ... |
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| A nice, slow and deliberate
spi
douse here by Marc as he wants the spinny in good shape
for its first
hoist of race 2. - click here for full-size pic ... |
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| Somehow, the camera missed
the
6th-place finish by Mike Codd and Kirk Iredale, and now
awaits a close
finish between ... - click here for full-size pic ... |
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| ... Michael Kachkovsky with
Kate
Linkova (300) and Geoff Edwards with George Waller, with
the former
just nipping into 7th. In the Zodiac, thanks to Roy
Kobyashi (l) (safety
duty) and Boris
Kuzmin, one of our two photographers. ... |
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| Sailing with pick-up crew,
Thomas Vendely, Kit Wallace (1037) started his series with
a 9th, ahead of Fred Black with Leo Savitsky (r). |
| 2007 C Nats index report results photos Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Saturday post-race Sunday: awards return to C Nats index |