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The
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Saturday
lunchtime:
still cool but sunny with more benign winds as we
have just completed
race 1. Al has the camera bag ready to go out
again, and the
long-handled screwdriver ready to loan to Peter
Rahn who wants to
adjust the brake on his borrowed centreboard. ... |
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Tony Krauss (l) shares
an
amusing moment with Richard and Michele. |
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Race 1 was a challenge
for Peter and Frank (r), but despite a
serious leak through
bailers, a centreboard that needed a brake job, and
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... an extension tiller
that needed the Red Green (duct tape) approach to
repairs down the
first run after it snapped, the lads scored a fine
2nd in the 17-boat
fleet. |
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The after-lunch
re-launch. Now the 29 ... |
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... Flying Scots will
join us ... |
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... for the rest of the
weekend. |
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Things get a bit
crowded, but it's turning into a lovely day, getting
warmer every
minute. |
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I
would be remiss if I
didn't mention here the cool sailing move of
the weekend,
pulled off by my crew, Marc as he piloted SHADES
out from the
crowded dock area (above) on Sunday
morning. While most were
bouncing off other boats trying to do a U-turn in
very restricted space
so that they could exit the mini-harbour, Marc had
another approach in
mind. After I had shoved SHADES straight
backwards off the
cross piece to the dock seen above, Marc calmly
invited me to sit down
and relax. He then held out the boom, and sailed
out backwards - in
complete control - right through the narrow gap at
the end of the
T-dock that you can see above. I was truly
impressed!! How lucky I am to
have ... ... |
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... Marc Bennett to
sail with. Here he models his new Doc Ford shirt. |
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Saturday afternoon went
better for the boys of W93, although they ... |
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... did need to use the
duct tape one or two more times. |
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Sunday
afternoon after
the last race: What is wrong with this picture
where Uncle Al has just
lowered the mast prior to packing up to head back
North. It took me a
moment to realize what I was seeing. We had been
sailing with a snapped
mast for goodness knows how long. How very
fortunate for Marc and me,
that Marc had wanted to really crank on a bit of
forestay tension to
better check jib luff sag. That is probably what
held the top part in
place. And to think I had just finished saying to
Marc, "At least this
year I didn't have to hear you say Houston, we
have a problem." ... |
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My best guess is that
my capsize and excavation of Fanshawe Lake mud with
the mast top on our
most recent sail in Oct. 2004 at the Pumpkin, must
have started the
break which matured while we were racing at the
Midwinters. |
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2005
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Midwinters |