the Mississauga Wayfarer/CL Regatta Mississauga SC * Sept. 15-16, 2007 race pics 5.1 by Gord Leachman, Gaetan Benoit & Michael Clayton ... |
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The RC has decided to give us
one more race to complete the planned 5-race series. - for full-size pic, click here ... |
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Mark and Paul are now ... ... |
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... counting 1-1-2 finishes, as
are ... ... |
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... Al and Tom, so that this
race will break the tie. ... |
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Colin and Heather (l) are back after duct-taping
their leak. ... |
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Wow! What a start for Gary and
Rob (2679) who snuck across on port while Mark, Marc and Al (near the mark) got stalled as they were fighting each other. ... |
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(l
to r) Rodrick, Colin, Al, Marc, Mark, Gary - for full-size pic, click here ... |
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Marc (l) tacks to go out into the lake,
while ... ... |
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... Al (600) and Mark (7673)
worry more about beating each other than about beating Gary (2679). ... |
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The beginning of the end for Al
(600) as Mark tacks and will be ahead. As I recall, we tacked to
leeward to boatspeed test with Mark but again could barely keep up with
him and Paul most of the time. Mark and Paul never did give up the lead
after this! Gary and Rob did not fare terribly well off on the right
side of the beat and were soon no longer a threat.
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Floating a bit higher now ... ... |
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... Colin and Heather just shave
the start mark. Note the 2:1 mainsheet which won't help them to sheet
in enough to assure decent leech tension and the resultant pointing
capabilities. ... |
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Note the upper batten on their
main (929) angled way off to leeward. Last across the line are Rodrick and Rod - Geoff and Alan have packed it in for the day. ... |
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The first run: It's still pretty
close but ... ... |
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... Mark (7673) is far enough
ahead of Al (600) to avoid his wind shadow while ... ... |
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... Marc (r) is just a couple of ... ... |
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... lengths behind Al. ... |
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The battle for first and series
victory ... ... |
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... continues. ... |
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Again, a wise timely douse for
the Taylors who make ... ... |
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... a flawless rounding onto the
second beat. |
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