| 2000 Midwinters: the food and the awards |
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| 13 Feb 2000:
breakfast al fresco |
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breakfast line - now isn't this the way a
February morning should be???!!! |
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| (l to r)
Frank Goulay, Dotty Murto, Joyce Brown and Mona
Shoemaker |
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| Take-out
lunches. |
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| (l to r) Vicky,
Noelle and Joe DeBrincat |
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| More
breakfasteers |
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| Uncle Al (l)
and Hubert |
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| Erik and
Vicky Beauchamp |
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| Hubert Dauch |
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| George
Waller with Geoff Edwards |
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| Gale
Shoemaker: 5th
overall and top non-spinnaker boat |
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| Bob Frick and Peter
Every |
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| André Laframboise
teamed up with Hans Gottschling in The Nutshell
W938 and placed 4th. |
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| Frank Goulay sailed
with Ottawa's Bill Fyfe in W937 Buttercup and
placed 3rd overall. |
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| (l to r) Bob
Brown, Bill Abbott Jr., Bill Abbott III, series
runners-up |
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| Midwinters 2000
champions: Marc Bennett and Uncle Al |
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| Canadian Honorary
Commodore, George Blanchard, dropped by for the regatta
but did not race. |
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| Mike Murto went on to
be the backbone of the Midwinters for many years before
his untimely passing in 2015. |
| and now all that was left was the Midwinters and boo-hoo-hoo! the trip home |
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| As we were leaving
Kentucky, Tom Wharton called to inform us
that nearly a metre of snow had fallen at home!
Fortunately, when we got home to Oakville at 10:30 p.m.
Monday (above) it was not quite as bad as that
but it still enough to chill Marc's Jamaican blood!!! |
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| The next day, it was almost as though we'd never been away!! Above, Uncle Al clutches his Waldringfield Wayfarer mug full of coffee, and a bag full of Midwinters film as he prepares to drive the kids (Joanna 13, David 11) to school while SHADES shivers in the background. |
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