the Mississauga Wayfarer/CL Regatta Mississauga SC * Sept. 15-16, 2007 race pics 1.5 by Gord Leachman, Gaetan Benoit & Michael Clayton ... |
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Their spinnaker keeps Colin and
Heather busy, while ... ... |
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... Gary has his hands full
handling his sails all ... ... |
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... by ... ... |
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... himself. ... |
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Rodrick has found an aardvark on
the floorboards, but Rod is ... ... |
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... being occupied by ...... |
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... more important things. ... |
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The fleet closes in on the
leeward mark: (l to r) Marc,
Mark, Rodrick, Colin ... |
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Marc (l) and Mark have paced each other
very ... ... |
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... well down the entire leg. ... |
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Looks like the Taylors will end
up rounding inside Marc and Julie. ... |
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Colin and Heather have used
their spinnaker nicely to move their CL past Geoff and Ron. Colin's
strategy is suspect, however. He is passing too close to leeward and
will get part of Geoff's wind shadow here. ... |
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Al and Tom are around onto the
second beat. ... |
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Colin (l) and Geoff continue ... ... |
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... their close battle. Before
Colin got his overlap on Geoff, he should have thought ahead to the
possibility of getting stuck in this position. How could he have
avoided this position? Well, what he (should have) wanted to do was
pass Geoff to windward, or at least end up inside at the upcoming mark
(to Geoff's left). To that end, Colin wants to start right away by
sailing a few boat lengths high of Geoff's course, which would leave
the boat ahead with clear wind and usually not inclined to fight with
the windward boat. There are other reactions from the leeward boat and
counter-moves by windward that are fun to contemplate, but I don't want
to bore you. Such a discussion is best done over beer! Suffice it
to say that, unless Colin had a clear and pressing reason (more
wind???) to go to the right on the run, he should have attacked by
going left.
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It's close among (l to r) Rodrick, Gary and Alan. ... |
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Mark and Paul (7673) round like
the champions they are. In their first race together, Marc and Julie
have sheeted their sails in way too soon. The jib especially is too
strapped in, even for a beat - note the nice curve in Paul's jib by
comparison! And of course, Marc won't have had time to coach Julie into
doing what he does for Uncle Al: take the mainsheet and whip the main
in as Al rounds, before handing it back to Al who pulls in the final
few inches. But be that as it may, Marc is doing a nice job of Slow down and win. He is
strategically better off here to ...
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... round just astern of Mark,
rather than overlapped to leeward. This approach will ... ... |
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... give Marc the freedom to
tack for clear air, or ... ... |
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... to try to pinch up ... ... |
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... over Mark. ... |
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Looks like Rodrick (3568) will
beat the other two to the leeward mark here. Meanwhile, the apparent
collision between Alan and Gary (2679) could lead to an interesting
protest: Gary is leeward boat and so Alan needs to keep clear - unless
they are so close to the mark that they are "about to round", at which
point Gary would be bound by Rule 18 to give Alan enough room to make a
seamanlike rounding.
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Meanwhile, taking no chances
that Marc Bennett (r) might
be sailing in a lift of his own, Mark Taylor has tacked across. ... |
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As expected, Geoff rounds inside
of Colin. The latter, like Marc, wisely rounds ... ... |
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... astern of Geoff, rather than
overlapped outside him. Now Colin can tack - as soon as ... ... |
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... Heather gets the pole down!!
Colin can, of course, also try to pinch up above Geoff or try to foot
through him to leeward - a low percentage move in these winds. One
option not open to Colin is ... ... |
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... rear-ending Geoff!! ... |
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(l
to r) Gary, Rodrick and Alan are about to start their second
beat. |
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