the 2007 North Bay
Wayfarer Weekend Mon 2 July: Don Rumble Memorial Series Race 2.1 photos by Julia Schonborn |
Race 2 will be a modified
Olympic triangle with the start-finish line in the middle
of the beat. ... |
Uncle Al has taken over the
SHADES helm and
here, keeps clear
of Ross and Breanne. ... |
A bit of a starboard
lift at
the start in the oscillating scheme of things leaves
Dwight (4606) with
the early lead but Al (3854) is happy where he is: well
clear of Geoff
(9483) to leeward. The next oscillation should be a back
and should
drop Dwight into Al's backwind, but until then Al must
make sure he
does not let Dwight sail over his wind by pinching too
much!!
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No sooner said than
done.
Seconds later, the starboard knock comes through, and
now Dwight will
be life and death to stay out of Al's backwind. Of
course,
textbook wisdom says tack on the knocks as Ross (3099)
and Sue (4677)
have done, but for Al who has identified Dwight as the
one boat he
cannot afford to lose to again this early in the 5-race
series, tacking
on knocks at this point is less important than staying
with Dwight and
not letting him get far ahead. So Al doesn't mind being
"pinned" and
kept from tacking here, because it is Dwight who is
doing the pinning.
If Dwight tacks, Al will, of course, stay with him.
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The starboard knock has
allowed
Dave Richardson (4782) to tack and cross Henry (3125)
who still has his
traveller off centre to leeward and whose pointing will
thus suffer.
Looks like Fred (2nd
from right)
is once more indulging his predilection for the left
corner where a
starboard lift at the completely wrong time may well
leave him
scuppered! -
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for full-size pic
... |
Starting with extreme
caution,
our newcomers, Andy and Joan (555) do have one
advantage: they are free
to tack on those headers without to much worry about
being blocked by
right-of-way boats! Race 1 third-place finisher, John de
Boer, has left
himself a hard row to hoe: a rather delayed start was
bad enough but
now he has Andrew (9657) blocking him from tacking
on this
starboard knock. Here, John appears to be weighing the
wisdom/possibility of a fast tack and violent bearing
away to pass
astern of Andrew without fouling him, but unless John
waits a bit
longer, such a manoeuvre will only leave him in Andy's
backwind. Always
lots of decisions to be made, thinking to be done,
especially going
upwind in a closely bunched group!
... |
Andy and Joan pass the RC
boat,
looking in fine trim. ... |
Nearing the gybe mark:
Having
sailed to get/stay ahead of Dwight (l)
has taken care of all Al's problems, i.e. by rounding
ahead of Dwight,
Al (not seen here) rounded ahead of everyone else as
well. Surprise:
John and Dolores (7351) found happiness in the left
corner after their
belated start, and are now threatening to move past
Dwight and Pat into
2nd!
... |
A close battle for 4th down
the
first reach (l to r)
Dave H.,
Sue, Tony, Michael ... |
Near the gybe mark, Dave
and Sue
have bought themselves a bit of breathing room. ... |
The second beat: Al and
Marc
have themselves positioned flawlessly - directly between
their most
feared opponent and the next mark. Staying near a fast
opponent also
has the benefit of giving you a handy, reliable boat speed
check! ... |
Lori's turn at the tiller
for
race 2. ... |
Geoff and Jason on beat #2,
with
Geoff keeping a wary eye out of starboard boats! ... |
Ross bears away to keep
clear of
the ... ... |
... starboard Fred and
John. ... |
Unless Andrew and Michele
are
bearing away for the RC boat here, their main is way too
far out for a
beat with ... ... |
... enough wind to let the
crew
sit on the high side. Meanwhile, Geoff and Jason (9483)
are digging
back in towards the middle of the course - usually a good, safe move. ... |
A more centred traveller
for
Henry and Bernie as they, too, come back towards the
middle. ... |
Fred has tacked back to
port,
while Sue (4677) and Dave H. test each other on starboard
near the
windward mark. ... |
Meanwhile, Al and Dwight
(4606)
have rounded onto the run 1-2, with Al again taking care
to defend the
left side. ... |
Dwight and Pat are about to
pass
to windward of the RC boat half way down the run. ... |
As are Sue and Steph. |
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