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| Bill Abbott (9235) has eaten up
an Uncle Al lead by taking down his jib in light airs |
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| Joe and Jeff
DeBrincat moving well with their nice-looking new sails |
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slight heel to windward would help these spinnies fly
more easily. |
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| the end of a
run and the relief of getting better apparent wind on
the beat!!! |
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| Hubert takes
to single-handing like the proverbial duck to water. In that hat, he even looks a bit like Frank Dye!!! - larger image |
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| a textbook
rounding for Uncle Al and Marc: main out, heel to
windward, help the boat bear away - Al is about to sit out to windward to heel SHADES even more to windward. - larger image |
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| a minute or
so later - a good close-up of Gale Shoemaker (93) - larger image |
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Peter Hylen, Geoff Edwards, JoeDeBrincat (1115 red), Bob
Brown, Graham Armstrong
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| Friday's
race #1 approaching the end of the second run: Bill
Abbott (9235) will round so close in front of Bill Fyfe
(yellow spi) that the latter ends up hitting the mark
and doing a 360. Close behind will be Hans (orange boat)
and Uncle Al (red spi). Both Hans and Bill make a short
hitch onto starboard and end up 1-2 when the wind backs
30º. Poor Bill drops to 5th after holding port tack to
the right corner. - larger image |
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| Saturday
afternoon: With good old 20/20 hindsight, we realize we
should have started sailing at 9:30 a.m. not 12:30 p.m. while the wind was still a nice 10 knots!!! - larger image |
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| and still,
only Uncle Al was willing to heel to windward to help
the spinnaker fly! tsk! tsk! - larger image |
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| the
Beauchamps |
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| Jim McIntyre |
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| Mike Murto |
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| André helms with Hans at
the spinnaker |
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| two spi virtuosos: Wayfarer Man
in 937 and Marc (3854) |
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| Geoff
Edwards and George Waller - pole too high??? |
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| Peter Hylen |
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| Joe and Jeff
in perfect form |
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| Bob/Peter:
weight forward? |
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| Hans and
André looking fine in The Nutshell (W938) |
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| Norfolk's
Brian Tomlin helms while Hubert does the spi. |
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| Peter and
Bob Frick combine 150
years of experience into great form. |
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| more Sunday
excitement |
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| Uncle Al and Marc show how it's done in very little wind: pole lowered, sheet "short" (around the lee shroud to crew's hand), Al heels the boat to windward and thus has to hold the boom out to leeward, weight well forward (Al was usually standing in front of the centre thwart!) |