| 2005
North
Bay Wayfarer Weekend Sunday: Don Rumble Memorial Series - 5 photos by Gillian Danby |
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| The lightweight team
of Sue
and Stephan may well need to ease considerably more main
and/or sail with more of a luff in both main and genoa to keep their boat flat. ... |
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| A puff with a lift is
not
necessarily an unmixed blessing - as Dave and Carol find
out here! ... |
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| Bernie and Henry have
Felecia
in great upwind form here! ... |
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| Fast reaction from
young
Brett keeps the spinnaker from becoming a complete sea
anchor. If you
haven't tried doing this ... ... |
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| ... you can't
appreciate
the amount of strength required to wrestle that
water-filled spinnaker back aboard before the boat sails over it!! Well done, Brett!!!! ... |
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| Uncle Al and Marc have
SHADES
in top form as they finish. ... |
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| Race 4: John and
Dolores
check the line. ... |
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| As the final seconds
tick
away, John (7351) and Dave (282) are about to ... ... |
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| ... nail perfect RC
boat
end starts. Note that Dave is wisely hanging back
because John is
aiming at the RC boat (where the camera is!!) and will
prudently leave
no room for Dave to squeeze in. But the latter has
other plans
anyway. As soon as ... ... |
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| ... he passes the RC
boat,
he will throw in a quick ... ... |
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| ... tack, and be off
... ... |
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| ... on port tack in
clear
air. ... |
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| Just in time for a
great
puff, in which Dave has ... ... |
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| ... luffed up (note
the
shore) so that Banshee ... ... |
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| ... stays beautifully
on
her "feet". ... |
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| Now they're knocked
... ... |
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| ... severely!! As soon
as
they're sure the knock will stay, they must now tack to
the favoured
starboard tack. When you're hot, on days when you have a
real feel for
what the wind is doing, you in fact tack right as the
knock hits,
without ever bearing away. ... |
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| Quite the gust here as
the
afternoon sunshine stirs the weather pot. ... |
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| There'll be good
action at
the near-by leeward mark. ... |
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| Sure enough, Dwight
(4606)
has managed to sneak inside and move past John. ... |
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| Sue Pilling is off on
the
favoured starboard tack, while Dave (282) will probably
want to hold port until a tack will leave him in clear air. ... |
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| How many grandmothers
do
you know who can do this, or perhaps more importantly
... ... |
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| ... are even willing
to
try!!!??? ... |
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Andrew and Julie
hike
nicely as they cross on port astern of Fred.
Still a lot of twist
in that main: sheeting in harder would make Njord
point higher,
and it looks like this athletic crew could hike even
harder to cope
with the additional heeling forces sheeting in would
create.
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| Our closely bunched
fleet
looks spectacular on the run before the final beat to
the finish. ... |
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| Our only picture from
race
5 shows Andrew and Julie again - this time demonstrating
self-rescue
101. |