| the 2011
Wayfarer Midwinters Saturday pics - 1 by Mary Krauss ... |
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| Saturday morning arrived
with a fair bit more wind and somewhat cooler temperatures for which Richard and Michele have already dressed. Others from l to r: Peter and Alex Rahn, Tony Krauss ... |
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| Putting a brave face on
things are Peter and Alex who are about to head home early
due to Peter's locked-up knee. ... |
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| Tony Krauss with his oh so
chic helm and his genuine Union suit ... |
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| Butch and Janice launch off
"our" beach into a more or less ... ... |
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| ... southerly wind. Today,
we are of course, sharing the race course with our
friends, the MCs. ... |
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| Some of the kiddies are
eager to get closer to the action. ... |
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Butch and Janice head
out to race #4. Sadly, we will not have Jim Orth's
photographic talents available to us Saturday or Sunday
so that the few action shots we got were taken by Mary
who was watching races 4 and 5 from the dock. The CWA
camera has good zoom and lens capability but
unfortunately the air is not the clearest today - as you
will soon see.
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| Interesting to see how big
the MC's sail is as we see Scott Tillema (2420) beside the
Minsons (3951). ... |
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| This will be a far more
challenging day for solo Ted who wisely ... ... |
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| ... hangs off a mooring to
hoist his sails. I hope his board is fully up as a safety
cushion until Ted gets back to his tiller. ... |
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| Nicely done, and Ted is
off. ... |
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| One of our much appreciated
safety boats is poised to go on duty as ... ... |
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| ... the two Jims McIntyre
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| ... head out. - click here for larger image ... |
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| Wall-to-wall MCs - with the
occasional W thrown in - click here
for larger image ... |
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| New sailor, Diane, does not
feel up to this much excitement, so Team Watterson packs
it in - for now!!! - click here
for larger image ... |
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Wait a minute!! I know I
still have a picture of the appropriate shirt in my
archives somewhere, the shirt that Richard should be
wearing here. Time out!!! Aha! Found it minutes later in
the nostalgia
section of the Whiffle
Web, the Trout Lake (North Bay) Wayfarer
Weekend 1980: Russ Burrell wearing the shirt, as he and
Rocket Roy Riddell are about to take a morning dip in
gorgeous, pristine Trout Lake:
... Al's note: For what it's worth, a
little photographic tip: I digitized this picture
by projecting the original slide onto a bit of
Bristol board taped to my basement wall about
eight feet from the projector. I put the CWA
camera on a tripod and set it for a two-second
time delay exposure so that any vibrations from my
clicking the shutter (no cable release
capability!) have faded before the camera takes a
picture of the slide projection. No flash, of
course!! Pretty amazing results if I do say so
myself. Once you're set up, you can do bunches of
slides amazingly quickly. It's getting around to
it that seems to be my problem.
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| the royal wave to
photographer, Mary? ... |
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| Is it just my imagination
or does Diane look like her eyes are saying rescue me, I
need someone to go to the art show with me, anywhere but here - and there went Mary, my afternoon photographer!! ... |
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| Yup. I'd say Richard needs
that shirt all right. |
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