2005 North Bay Wayfarer Weekend
Monday: Trout Lake Poker Race - 1
photos by Carol Hansman, Doug Netherton, Julia & Al Schonborn
Monday morning, 8 Wayfarer teams - including two crews making their first appearance of the weekend - arrived at Bob Brown's hangar on Trout Lake's Delaney Bay (above) for a 0930 competitors' briefing prior to the Wayfarers' first-ever Poker Race. Here we discovered that we were to zigzag down much of the length of Trout Lake, picking up a package containing a pair of playing cards at each of five waypoints (see chart above). Thus we would end up with enough cards to make up two poker hands. Each of our hands would be ranked in its "pool", leaving us with three scores (two hands plus one race), lowest total wins, like in a race series. After a beaching finish at the McNutts' cottage, we would all be winners, getting a delicious BBQ lunch while wallowing in the nostalgia of the "good old days" of the Wayfarer Weekend at Trout Lake.

Doug Netherton (l) helps Fred Black haul his trailer up a ramp usually reserved for float planes, while ...
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... Anne Black supervises Françoise's job of beaching Rusty Scuppers.
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Our eight-boat fleet looks out onto Delaney Bay in hopes of spotting a breeze.
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One of two fresh entries today is W3567 Brown Bomber to be sailed by Ken and Graeme Brown.
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W 108 (really W4782, an orange Mark II) is our other new entry, to be sailed by David Richardson and Kim Hewitt.
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A new and - dare I say it??!! - more attractive crew today for ...
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... Ross Jamieson: his daughter, Breanne.
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Mitchell Martyn will bolster the Banshee team today, as he will sail with his grandparents, Dave (r) and Carol Hansman.
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David and Kim set off in Born Loser II. Note the slight breeze beginning to caress (a few bits of) Trout Lake!!
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The start will be rather informal, at a secret signal given by Dave Hansman as soon as ...
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... we have completed the ...
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... Competitors' Briefing.
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Ross and Breanne concentrate - sort of. Our fan base - Anne Black - remains small.
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It's a kind of Le Mans start. Dave and Carol's daughter, Erinn Hansman (r)
and her daughter, Kennedy Martyn, supervise the Banshee preparations.

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The boats are ...
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... launched and will get the go ahead from Dave at any moment.
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A few new combinations today, such as Sue Pilling sailing with Henry Van Brussel in his Felecia.
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Fred Black (l) will team up with Michelle Dicker. The Toodle-oo team of ...
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... Doug and Françoise remains intact.
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A tearful farewell?? from the loving daughter as Dave and Carol set off on the long voyage with young midshipman, Mitchell.

North Bay Wayfarer Weekend