| The
Cottonwood
Regatta & U.S. Nationals Catawba YC, Charlotte, NC April 24-25, 2004 Saturday: pre-race photos by Alan Hallwood |
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| Peter and Alex
Rahn
get an early start out towards the course. ... |
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| Others soon
follow. ... |
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| That's
it, lads! Get those shirts off while you still can.
We'll be back in
the frozen North all too soon! ... |
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| Frank and Hans
get the
"wrinkles" out. ... |
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| Shadow
samples
the NE winds that would give us course diagonally
across the lake
just north of the club. ... |
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| Peter and Alex
looking
good despite the long winter's lay-off. ... |
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| Joe Spencer
heaves to
while John Weakley makes a few last-minute adjustments. ... |
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| Roll tack
practice ... |
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| Dan Lawrence and
crew
in Vanguard 1001 check out the course. ... |
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| Catawba YC made
Lake
Wylie ... ... |
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| ... a busy place ... ... |
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| ... on this fine weekend. ... |
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| Some upwind
testing
for Lightning 14932. ... |
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| Our outstanding
Race
Committee with PRO, Jolene Rasmussen, at the bow, looks
for the best place to put a course in the challenging NE winds. ... |
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| Wall to wall
sails add
the last missing touch to a beautiful Lake Wylie. ... |
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The line is
set on
boats begin to check in. An interesting wrinkle was
that the order of
starts was flexible, so that we had to be on our toes
and check each
five-minute flag to see if this start was ours. Also
the number of
times around could vary from class to class as
necessary, W1 for once
around, W2 for twice around, etc.. So we had to check
that as well with
each of our starts. The whole thing went very well.
And Jolene didn't
make us wait around: if one class was finished but
another still had a
long way to go, she just sent the class off that was
ready and, I
presume, gave the other class a shorter course if
necessary to let them
catch up and even out the number of races. A very neat
system!
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| Rumour has it
that
Brian Zimmerman (739) is the current North American
champion in
Vanguards. Thus we had three reigning N.A. champs on the
lake what with
Uncle Al (W3854) and Frank Goulay (Al's champion crew
who was in W938
with Hans). ... |
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| John and Dolores
de
Boer looking right at home in Silver Fox (7351) after a two-year absence during which John had both knees replaced. ... |
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| Marc Bennett (green
MoJo's
shirt) does ... ... |
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| ... bit of last
minute
housekeeping aboard SHADES just prior to race 1. ... |
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| Bill Wiggins and
his
lovely crew relax before race 1. Note the nice touch on
the rudderhead. ... |
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| Mr. Zimmerman and
crew, I believe? ... |
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| Richard and
Michele
Johnson cruise past the RC boat. ... |
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| And this
Lightning is
also all set to get going. ... |
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| Last minute
upwind
tuning for Hans (938) and Peter behind Hans. ... |
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| Joe DeBrincat and
Paul
McVey have The Maltese Falcon heeled just
right to get
through a dead spot. ... |
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| But there's at
least a
bit of wind in most places and ... ... |
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| ... Race 1 is
about to
get underway. |
| 2004
Cottonwood Regatta & U.S. Nationals results report photos: Friday - 1 Friday - 2 Saturday morning ashore Saturday pre-race Saturday: Race 1 Saturday: Race 2.1 Saturday: Race 2.2 Saturday: Race 3 Saturday: Race 4.1 Saturday: Race 4.2 Saturday post-race - 1 Saturday post-race - 2 Sunday (incl. awards & home) |