the
2008 North Bay Wayfarer Weekend Long Distance Race pics - 1 photos by Cathy Jessup, Julia & Al Schonborn, Andrew Haill ... |
Aerial view of Callander
Bay
(North Bay YC on upper right) as seen from the plane by
Andrew Haill at
... ... |
... the start of his flight
back
home to Thunder Bay. ... |
Course for the 2008
National
Long Distance Race. - click here for full-sized image ... |
Start time nears, and our
Race
Committee, Fred and Anne (l)
are about set to begin our countdown. That looks like the same horn Fred used to use to start us on Trout Lake in the 70s and 80s. It certainly sounded the same - brought back lovely memories!! ... |
This kind of start gives
spectators a great view of the start line action: ... |
Ross Jamieson and John
Simmonds
check out the start line and the winds - or lack thereof -
on Callander
Bay. ... |
As do Al and Julia. ... |
The countdown has begun and
the
jockeying for position starts. ... |
Andrew and Lori make it out
just
in time. ... |
The first leg of our race
was to
mark #6 of the NBYC's fixed set of marks. ... |
The wind was such that it
would
be hard to cross the line on starboard, and the direction to the first mark made an early tack to port essential. (l to r) Taylor Marsh, Sue Pilling, Dave Richardson ... |
Andrew and Lori begin their
"line sit" while ... ... |
... Dave Hansman (282) and
Ross
Jamieson are just now getting back from sailing a bit of
the first leg
to test winds. ... |
Still working on bringing
their
borrowed W up to snuff are Taylor Marsh and Ryan Willick (l). Do I detect a broken boom-end mainsheet block? ... |
An RC's-eye view of our
start:
Uncle Al (r) and
Dave Hansman
have gotten off to the best starts with quick tacks to port where they are already laying #6. ... |
(r to l) Dave Hansman, Uncle Al,
Dave Richardson and Ross Jamieson are in the driver's
seat. Since we
are all laying the mark, Ross should be footing for
speed here, at all
costs avoiding pinching up into the wind shadows of the
boats further
to windward! I recall Julia warning me that we were
getting awfully
close to the leeward Dave Hansman here. Dave was indeed
pointing very
well and going higher than I wanted to go. But in the
end
...
...
|
... Julia and I managed to
foot
down over Dave and Carol, which took away some of the
nervous tension
and allowed us to ... ... |
... get the camera out, and
record the fact that ... ... |
... Carol and Dave had
sailed up
across our wake and were now moving discouragingly well,
i.e. better
than we were!! ... |
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