| The Mississauga SC Wayfarer/CL Regatta Race 2.1 by Gord Leachman & Alan Hallwood |
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| Seconds to go before the
race 2 start - same course as race 1. The line is pretty square. Most
of us being at the boat end has left Colin (r)
the pin end of the line all to himself where he is about to make a nice
port-tack start. for full-size pic, click here - use Back button to return to this page ... |
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| The gun goes and
Colin has lots of room. Right beside the RC boat, Geoff is very
well positioned and Al (3854) has already begun to foot off to keep
Geoff from taking his wind. ... |
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A blurry
look a few seconds later shows Colin (l)
moving and pointing well, while Al (dark hull) continues to tread a
fine line between Geoff to windward and Mark to leeward. Rob (1050) and
Stuart (r) have left
themselves with an uphill battle after needlessly late
starts.
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| As Colin (mostly hidden by
1050) converges with the starboard fleet, Mark (7673) has footed out
nicely. Judging by relative mast heights, Al (3854) may be far enough
to windward to avoid Mark's backwind. for full-size pic, click here - use Back button to return to this page ... |
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| Or not. At least Al will
likely
have freedom to tack and clear Geoff. Colin will go behind Mark and
will have to ... ... |
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| ... bear off to keep clear
of Al (3854) as well. Stuart (7660) has been moving nicely in
relatively clear air. ... |
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| Gary (2679) has picked a
bad spot in which to tack for clear air, ending up in Colin's (929) lee. ... |
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Near the
windward mark: Al, with his light crew, has been able to slowly work
his way past Mark. Here, Al feels justified in sitting on Mark's wind
since every foot of distance he can put between himself and Mark will
help when the boats round onto the run in a minute or so.
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| Colin watches the mark
closely as Al once more shoots it to avoid two more tacks. ... |
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| Again, the winds look
patchy as Al hoists to start the long run. This will be a fine situation in which to once more go "up in the lulls and down with the puffs". ... |
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| Team Taylor sets off in
pursuit. ... |
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Al stays
low for two reasons: 1. fighting each other up to windward needlessly
lengthens the distance we need to sail, and 2. if all else is equal, we
want the left side which will leave us inside at the mark and on
starboard for any convergences with boats coming in from the right.
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| Geoff and George (9483)
have rounded a nice 3rd ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Kit who is fighting to
overcome a poor start. Gary (l)
and Rob, meanwhile, continue their contest against ... ... |
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| ... Colin (929) who needs
to keep clear of the three spinnaker boats, all of whom are on
starboard. ... |
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| Despite his fine start,
Colin
(929) has dropped behind the other two CL's after risking a trip to the
left corner. Gary (2679), meanwhile, rounds with a nice little edge
that should give crew, John, lots of time to do an unrushed hoist. ... |
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| Rob just nicely lays the
mark while Colin crosses Rodrick (3568) and will ... ... |
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| ... also lay the mark.
While Rob helps the wind to push his main out, Sam gets set to wing the
jib. ... |
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| Colin and Heather soon have
their spinnaker up, and will ... ... |
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| ... now gybe to try for
better breeze on the left side. |
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