| the
2012
Wayfarer Midwinters pre-regatta pics - 1 pics by Uncle Al, Julia, Trevor Fisher, Tony Krauss, Richard Watterson and Michele Parish ...... |
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| Departure morning for
Uncle
Al: Sun 29 Jan, temps around the freezing mark ............ |
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| for insurance
purposes??? ............ |
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| Two hours after my
noon
departure from Oakville, ON, Hwy 402 between London and Sarnia was living up to its snow belt reputation. ............ |
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| The Blue Water Bridge
was
anything but. ............ |
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| Crossing into Michigan ............ |
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| A quick fill-up in
Port
Huron where I promptly got lost, having been too cheap
to update
Sheila, my car GPS. I nearly got stuck on a very slippery side street but finally got back onto the Interstates and on my way to the ... ............ |
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| ... Krauss residence
in
Whitmore Lake, relieved to see the end of that ... ............ |
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... mini-snow
storm
that had seen me drive by a seemingly endless
procession of wrecks or
vehicles in ditches or fields. The beer above was well
earned, I
figured. Having transferred my personal gear, I was
ready to be
chauffeured to Marc and Julie's place in East Lansing.
There the five
of us would have dinner. Then Tony and Mary rushed
back home to get a
bit of sleep before leaving at 0500 hrs to drive my
car and boat to
Eustis. I travelled with Marc to keep him company
while Julie would fly
down to Orlando on Thursday afternoon.
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| The Free Range
Chick'n gets
set to leave Charlotte, NC for the last time :( Word is that Richard Johnson and his wife, Michele, have sold the Chick'n to Ray Laguna at the Lake Eustis SC, and ... ............ |
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| ... have ordered one
of the
"stylish" Hartley MK IVs for April delivery. ............ |
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| Like the rest of us,
the
"bar dog" from St. Marys, GA, is aging and on his way to
legend status. He will have a regatta named after him later this year: the Old Brown Dog Regatta. ............ |
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| Richard Watterson left
Hummelstown, PA, early and by Sat. morning, the 28th of
Jan., he was
well on his way to FL. ............ |
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| That very evening
Richard
was already enjoying warm sun with the hard-working LESC
locals. ............ |
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| Trevor Fisher came in
all
the way from the East Down YC in Northern Ireland and
this is what he
saw as he arrived in Eustis on Tuesday afternoon: (l to r) three Hartleys, SHADES and the Free Range Chick'n. ............ |
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| Nick Seraphinoff's
newly
named Impulse ............ |
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| the lovely, warm
waterfront
at the Lake Eustis SC ............ |
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| the clubhouse ............ |
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