| the North
Bay
Wayfarer Weekend 2006 Don Rumble Memorial - race 2 photos by Gillian Danby |
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| They're off in race 2.
Not
a good start for Al (l) who is being backwinded
by John de Boer
off his bow ... |
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| Dwight and Pat round
in
first place which they will easily hold to the finish. Uncle Al sits 5th but has wisely overlaid the windward mark, seeing the mess about to ... ... |
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... unfold among
the
three boats virtually tied for 2nd. A bad day for John
(7351) to try to
shoot the mark, while Geoff has inadvertently tacked.
Only Tony (4105)
and Al have any forward momentum at this point, and
when Tony gets hung
up briefly on Geoff ...
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| ... Al slips by and
rounds
2nd ahead of Tony. Andrew (9657) will also benefit from keeping his nose clean and move up to 4th. ... |
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| No. Make that a 3rd as
Andrew and Joanne slip past Tony and Mary just at ... ... |
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| ... the finish of this
once-around-the-triangle race. ... |
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| Then it was John and
Dolores nosing out ... ... |
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| ... Dave and Carol. ... |
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| Geoff and Barb also
got
killed by their windward-mark misadventure and fell to
7th. ... |
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| Lori and Jason in
excellent
trim here. ... |
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| Ross and Lori cross
the
line. ... |
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| Having seen Henry
sitting
in this position, I suggested he would do better to sit
further
forward. To which he replied: "I will. Next year I will be the crew and John will skipper." |