the
2008 North Bay Wayfarer Weekend Don Rumble/Nats: race 4.5 photos by Julia Schonborn ... |
Nathaniel and Krista on
scenic
windward mark duty off Wasi Falls. ... |
(l
to r) Rob, Dave R, Ross and Andy pass the
start/finish area on
their way down the run. ... |
Running boats (l to r): Dave H,
Alastair, Andrew,
Al N,, Frank, Dwight Meanwhile, Mark, John
and Uncle
Al have just rounded the leeward mark (off Al Nichols'
bow - 3rd from
right) a close 1-2-3 onto the final short beat to the
finish. Al got
lucky here, as both Mark and John held port tack for
while longer and
let him be the first to tack to a starboard tack that
let him lay the
finish line - for the time being, at least. Conventional
wisdom would
have had Mark tack early and get between his opponents
and the finish
line (camera position here). - for
full-size pic, click here
...
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The sun makes a brief
appearance
and Dave and Kim look exceptionally nice under spinnaker!! ... |
As do Ross and John who
have
everything trimmed as well as it can be. ... |
Battle of white sails: Andy
and
Robin (6071) have come back from well astern to give Rob
and Samantha a
serious run for their money!! ... |
Having tacked to
starboard and
both now laying the finish line, Frank (l) and Dave are in
a "foot race"
to the line - barring major shifts - as Andrew and Lori
complete their
pretty-looking run. This is the last we'll see of Frank,
photographically speaking, who rounded the leeward mark
with as good a
shot as anybody at 4th place. He ended up paying dearly
for putting in
his far shorter tack first, thus killing off all useful
tacking options
by hitting the lay line way too soon. He and Kim
ultimately fell to a
7th-place finish, behind Dave (r).
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"Sometimes, Moses
..." I
have to confess that at the end of this race, I
felt a bit like Moses must have felt in this joke where
the Lord
commanded Moses to do a bunch of stuff, which Moses
promptly did to
perfection. "There you go, Lord. All done," Moses said -
at which point
this huge bare foot came blasting out of the heavens,
stomping Moses
into the ground. Somewhat the worse for wear, Moses
looked up and
stammered, "But Lord, I did everything just exactly the
way you asked
me to. Why did you do this to me??" At which point the
Lord made the
reply I began with: "Sometimes, Moses, you just
piss me off!"
At the leeward mark, Michele and I had done things they way we were supposed to. We had made a lovely quick tack around the mark onto a starboard tack that was letting us lay the mark, while Mark and John put their entire lead (and considerably more) out to windward where it could easily have been useless to them. In the end, the Lord's foot came down: we got knocked near the finish line where Mark and John could still lay the line but we could not. True, there had been somewhat better pressure out further on the just completed leg, but what a risk to take! By the time we reached the line after tacking, Mark and Paul (above) had scored their third straight win. I know how Moses must have felt all right. Not that it would have made any difference. Mark and Paul had captured the Don Rumble Memorial Trophy by a huge and very well earned margin! Congratulations, Mark and Paul!!! And in doing so, they had also taken a big lead in our Nationals series which would continue the next day. ...
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Looking very pretty in a
backlit
way is Silverfox
with John
and Dolores de Boer whom Al and Michele just edged out and relegated to 3rd place for this race. ... |
Dwight and Pat, too, get
the
Lord's foot. Here they have positioned themselves in
textbook fashion
where the law of averages says good things should happen
to them on a
very shifty day such as this: If they get a lift, then
they lay the
line and beat the boats to windward and astern, and if
everyone gets
knocked, Dwight tack and cross. In the event, neither of
these things
happened. Instead a severely angled line saw them lose a
very close
race to both ...
...
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... Alastair (10137) who
took
4th and Dave (5th). ... |
Meanwhile, Rob and Samantha
have
held off Andy and Robin and rounded ahead onto the final
beat. ... |
Word is that Al and Ken
(7380)
finished in a 7th-place dead heat with Frank and Kim - a
photo finish
without the photo, alas! ... |
Rolling in from the right
and
rounding out the top 10 are Andrew and Lori in their
nicely backlit Green
Side Up. ... |
Rob and Samantha held on to
beat
... ... |
... Andy and Robin, who ... ... |
... also get the late knock
and
will likely have to tack to lay the end of the line marked
by the small
green ball off their starboard bow. ... |
Late afternoon on Callander
Bay:
Dave and Kim are a fine sight as they ... ... |
... cross the line and our
2008 Don Rumble
Memorial is complete. |
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