the run
 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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 a slight heel to windward would help these spinnies fly more easily
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the end of a run and the relief of getter 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!!!
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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
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a minute or so later - a good close-up of Gale Shoemaker (93)
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r to l: 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.
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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!!!
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 and still, only Uncle Al was willing to heel to windward to help the spinnaker fly! tsk! tsk!
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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 NUTSHELL (938)
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Norfolk's Brian Tomlin helms while Hubert does the spi
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150 years of experience as Peter and Bob Frick combine
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(left) more Sunday excitement

(right) Uncle Al and Marc show how it's done in very little wind: pole lowered, heel to windward and hold the boom out to leeward, weight well forward (Al was usually standing in front of the centre thwart!)

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