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2004
Wayfarer
North Americans Saturday pics: race 3, part 1 photos by Jennifer Princing |
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| The wind
continues to
pick up as we ... ... |
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| ... wait for race
3. ... |
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| Scott (l)
and
Brian looking fast! ... |
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| The start of race
3.
Al still wants the left
side of the beat but has played it safer by starting ... ... |
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| ... just to leeward
and ahead of Brian (9235). Roger (7700) also looks good
but ... ... |
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...
may have problems
if the expected starboard knock arrives - as it seems
to be doing here?
A bit late for the line is Nick (864), but not as late
of Mark and Paul
Taylor who have been wrestling with spinnaker pole
issues somewhere
south of East Tawas.
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| Great hiking by
Sean
Ring! Er, Mike. With the vang (and the main leech!!)
this loose, you may be able to sail flat with ease, but you won't point! ... |
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| Mike must have
heard
me - he's cranking on some vang as an interested Sean
looks on - or is Sean just making sure he is perfectly placed to keep the spray off his helm??? ... |
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| Didn't we see
this
same pic in the race 1 coverage: Nick roaring in along
the port layline? ... |
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| A starboard lift
late
in the beat, leaves Mark (l) with some hope for
catching up,
while Al (off Mark's jib) looks bad, being on the outside of the lifted Brian (centre) and Roger (r). ... |
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| But in the end,
it's
Brian (9235) and Al rounding ... ... |
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...
one-two. Above, Al
again protects the left. In the ever increasing winds,
Al and Frank
have discovered that things are much more relaxing and
the boats far
easier to control if they keep their weight well aft
on the run, and
that does not seem to be hurting their speed any.
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| Nick and Joe give
the
folks at the State Park a good show. ... |
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| Invasion
with
lighthouse. ... |
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| Even without a
spinnaker, it's still an exciting ride for Mark (7673)
and Mike (4271).
The former have no pole. ... |
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Al
and Frank (3854)
sit patiently off Brian's leeward quarter, knowing
that the latter
can't risk a gybe to port until Al is good and ready
to let him. Al and
Frank waited until the port approach to the leeward
mark would be
nearly a beam reach. Being the first to gybe, Al and
Frank would then
be to windward of Brian and Scott and inside at the
mark. Al did end up
rounding ahead of Brian and added slightly to that
lead up beat #2. The
run proceeded without untoward incidents for Al and
Frank who continued
to sit near the transom, but ...
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| ... Brian and
Scott
has spinnaker issues which forced them to ... |