the 2007 North Bay
Wayfarer Weekend Tues 3 July: Trout Lake Poker Race - 2 photos by Julia & Al Schonborn; Dave & Carol Hansman |
PRO, Dave Hansman, calls us
to
the skippers' meeting. ... |
Anne Black is nicely
accessorized for the day with a Hans Gottschling purse,
available at
none of even your best stores. ... |
And Fred McNutt put in a
cameo
appearance to tell us that lunch would waiting at their
place down the
lake. ... |
Dave addresses the
assembled
multitudes. ... |
(l
to r) Tony Krauss, Julia Schonborn, Tim Price,
Walter Koch,
Nicole Neph ... |
Nicole will ... ... |
... be crew for Sue Pilling
today. ... |
Dave locates the first
waypoint
for any newcomers. ... |
(l
to r) Sue, Michele, Mary, Lori, Pat, Fred, Andy,
Joan, Anne ... |
"We stand on guard"???? ... |
Skippers' Meeting
completed, we
get ... ... |
... the boats all set for a
somewhat complex system of ... ... |
... staggered, mostly
lottery-allocated starts. ... |
Lori and Tony have traded
crews
so that Lori (l)
and Mary can
be a "chick crew" today. ... |
Pat Onions and Fred Black
are
all set. ... |
Winners of the start
lottery
were Walter Koch and Tim Price who will find that ... ... |
... the main won't go all
the
way up unless the mainsheet is freed. ... |
There! That's better. ... |
Erinn ... ... |
... looks on before being
... ... |
... joined by Julia who is
also
in no hurry since SHADES
will
start last, having won the Cruise Race. ... |
Leg 1 took us across
Delaney Bay
where Ken Holloway would be waiting just off the SW shore in his red canoe festooned with one of Mary's new flags. ... |
Henry with Klaus and Jacob
were
one of the earlier ... ... |
... starters.
Photographers, Al (l)
and Dave will be among the last
to go, and so have time to help people get off the dock. ... |
Team Njord pushes off:
Andrew and
Michele. ... |
Rudder still up in the
shallows
near the shore, the "chick boat" sets forth in ... ... |
... pursuit of ... ... |
... Andrew and
Michele. - click here
for full-size pic |
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