| 2005
North
Bay Wayfarer Weekend Monday: Trout Lake Poker Race - 1 photos by Carol Hansman, Doug Netherton, Julia & Al Schonborn |
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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.
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| 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. |