06 MSC Regatta: race 7.2 pics

The Mississauga SC Wayfarer/CL Regatta
Race 7.2
by Gord Leachman & Alan Hallwood

... sure enough, later in the leg, Al (r) did find a slightly better breeze on the left, and pulled even with Mark
not far from the leeward mark. And to add insult to injury, Al will have the inside overlap at the mark.
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Kit (r) meanwhile holds a narrow edge over Geoff (9483) in the battle for ...
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... third ...
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... place.
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By flying the chute himself, Al gives Colin lots of time to calmly stow the pole while SHADES is still well away from the mark. This would be a seriously annoying time for a rounding fiasco. Any second now, Colin will gather the foot of the spinnaker so that we can't sail over the sheet, at which time Al will check that there are no tangles in the spi halyard, and then Colin will pull the spi down while standing forward of the windward jib sheet so that he can just stuff the spinnaker in front of him and have it out of the way of the jib sheet for after the gybe.

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A nice rounding is made by both teams, and now it is ...
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... Mark's turn to try to outpinch Al (l). Oversheeting here by Geoff (9483) is likely not a bad idea
since he needs to slow down to give Kit time to clear the mark.
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Still very close are the three CL's with ...
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... Colin (929) in a precarious lead. I don't even want to think about what that boat off Colin's port side is doing!! Whatever it is, it's not good - given that the mark is back there beside Gary (2679).
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