| the 2011
Wayfarer Midwinters Saturday pics - 5 by Mary Krauss ... |
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| Butch Minson, our very own
Joshua Slocum? ... |
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| Jim and Linda arrive and
haul out with Richard W, our ubiquitous helper. ... |
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| The NW sky does lend things
a certain urgency!! - click here
for larger image ... |
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| Nothing seems to have
fallen off W911 this time. FLASH!! Jim and Cynthia have just today (6 Mar 11) bought W2412 a glass MK I from Julie Bennett. ... |
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| Well, that seems to be all
of us safely "tucked in" on the Sam Chapin Beach with not
much more to do than ... ... |
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| ... to check out the
oncoming front. ... |
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| Al insists that the
continuous sheet is the only way to go? Michele tolerates
this. ... |
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| Tony starts to roll the SHADES jib around our
forestay. Rolling up a few turns of leech around its
cringle sort of, makes this a faster, easier job, as then
the leech roll can easily be unrolled around the forestay
without the sail being unwieldy or flogging the the
breeze. ... |
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| The hordes head for the
dock or ... ... |
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| ... the moorings. ... |
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| Life on the beach is
certainly easier and less bumpy!! ... |
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| Ah, the excitement of it
all!!! ... |
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| The front appears to have
stalled for now. Word is that the LESC is virtually dead
centre between the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and that this kind of thing happens here a lot: the Gulf weather meets the Atlantic stuff and things reach an impasse. |
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