| the PMG CanAm CL16
Regatta Hilton Beach, August 12-13, 2006 Thursday ashore - 1 photos by Uncle Al |
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| An interesting morning
view
to the east from near Anne's Cafe ... ... |
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| ... in Richards Landing. ... |
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Soon after
breakfast,
the day brightened right up and we got to work. Before
we launched the
boat for good, we wanted to try out our sails to make
sure everything
would fit - no surprises wanted on Saturday morning.
Plus we wanted to
add a refinement or two: our own magic box which was
identical to the
Harken 116 hulk that had been stripped of its innards
by parties
unknown over the winter (moose, perhaps?), much
thinner main and jib
sheets, a bridle and a masthead fly.
...Somewhere during the day, Marc discovered to his horror that our mast was visibly bent at deck level (marginally visible in the pic below). Despite my assurances that, with the rest of the mast being straight and with the effects of rig tension, we should be fine, Marc remained worried until the racing began. After that, I never heard another word about it, oddly enough. |
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Marc installs a
shackle
at the tack of the mainsail to keep the tack at a
height that won't
distort sail shape. Note that our jib halyard was too
short for our
jib, so that we added a bit of Spectra rope from our
supplies rather
than drilling two more rivet holes into Mason's mast.
We then removed
the halyard tail since the jib would not be coming
down until Sunday
night. We would again roll it around our forestay each
day after we
came in.
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| Colin meanwhile was
about
to ... ... |
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| ... spiff up CL929
with a
jazzy new racing stripe. No drips anywhere!! I'm green
with envy! ... |
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| Note the stripe begins
a
bit
aft of the bow so that 929 will not be too easy to ID if
he's a bit
early at the start! ... |
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| Colin and Heather have
volunteered to drive us to the dinner at Mason's "camp"
tonight. At the
campground, they got grass on which to pitch
their tent - a
lovely
set-up with many of the comforts of home!
Lucky
them! ... |
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| Heather is all nicely
dressed for ... ... |
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| ... the dinner party! ... |
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| We parked outside the
camp's modest
little
5-car garage and ... ... |
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| ... walked from there. ... |
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| Colin gets set to
explore
the walkway down to the docks. Al will stay up here to
help Mason open
the beer. |
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