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A drizzly day in the
Wayfarer camp as the horses look for edible tents. On the
far left, you can see the end of Uncle Al's Datsun
experience, a car that always died at regular intervals
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Our rec room is erected.
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Wayfarers on both sides of
the McNutt boathouse - click here for full-sized pic ... |
Twenty-three Wayfarers this
year, down some from previous years. - click here for full-sized pic ... |
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View from the boathouse
roof -
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Sid Atkinson and Hank Bout
check out the day's upwind settings in their composite Mk
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...are Hans and Mudl . ... |
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... we have Uncle Al
with Judy Westcott in Beaver
Blues, a brand new composite Mk II from Avon
Sailboats in Michigan. W4000 had a cut-down Elvstrom FD
mast because black anodized looked so good to Al. Only a
year later, the WIC would change the mast rules to make
Proctor masts the only acceptable ones. The boat looked
very nice but was, alas, 50+ pounds overweight.
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A new cleavage??? The
demise of Uncle Al's favourite cut-offs (note the lack of underwear which only adds to that wet feeling when you sail) as ... ... |
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... enlarge what had been a
perfectly innocent little tear. ... |
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... the awards presentation
where Class Chairman, Ron Gillespie (original owner of
W3854) gets set to hand out the prizes under the ever watchful eye of Fred McNutt. ... |
2nd place in the Cruise
Race went to Alf Easy (l)
and Hughie Thomas, who were sailing Hughie's brown Chocolate Beaver. ... |
Wearing his Fireball hat,
Uncle Al steps up with Judy Westcott to accept the Cruise
Race Trophy from Ron Gillespie. ... |
Unidentified MC puts
together the Hill
Crawford Memorial Trophy before presenting it to
the series winners ... ... |
... Linda and Patrick
Sweet. A young Scott Holloway (l) looks on. ... |
The 1975 awards winners ... |
back row, l to r: Eric Stubbs (series
3rd), Hughie Thomas (Cruise 2nd), Al Schonborn and Judy
Westcott (Cruise 1st, series 2nd), Ivar Zalitis (series
3rd) front
row, l to r: Alf Easy (Cruise 2nd), Linda and
Pat Sweet (series 1st) missing from photo:
Ken Holloway and Grace Chapman (Cruise 3rd)
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