| the 2011
Wayfarer Midwinters Friday: race 1 pics - 6 by Jim Orth ... |
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| Nearing the finish line,
Jim Best (911) who is still making his transom drag,
nurses a narrow lead over Jim Lingeman (3991) who in turn
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| ... will finish just ahead
of Butch Minson (3951). ... |
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| (Wayfarers l to r) a trio of Jims: Jim
Best 5th, Jim McIntyre 4th, Jim Lingeman 6th ... |
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| Allright, Mr. Lingeman, I
give up. Why did you gybe here and make such a ... ... |
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| ... hairy mark rounding out
of this?? ... |
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Following Jim and Butch
in a very close 8th was Ted Benedict. My belated
apologies for having handed the camera off with it being
accidentally set to overexpose each pic by two f-stops.
The rest of the day's sailing pics are computer enhanced
as much as I could manage. All I can say in my defense
is: "You should have seen how washed out it looked
before I fixed it."
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| Cruising towards the finish
in fine wing-on-wing form are Richard and Diane who remain
ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Mike Murto and Andy
Douma, spinnaker and all. ... |
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| Izak and Peter enter into
the mix on port tack and will make a very close race of
it. ... |
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| What with the angle of the
line, someone
will win by a nose, as they say. Richard got the 9th-place
nod just ahead of Izak. ... |
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| The almost perfect host,
Mike Murto, cruises across in 11th. A fine flags picture,
too: the S flag (blue square on white) for shorten course, and the blue flag indicating RC boat on station at finish. ... |
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| And last but definitely not
least, our boys from Kansas ... ... |
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| ... Pat Baldwin and Ed
Rojohn. |
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