| 2004
Wayfarer
Ontarios Race 3 - part 1 photos by Stuart Pursey |
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| A late start to race 3
for Doug as the fleet is already well away, but ... ... |
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| ... now he's getting
back into the mix with (l to r) Dave, Peter and Andrew just
ahead. ... |
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| An interested
spectator aboard the RC boat ... |
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| A closely bunched
fleet approached the end of the first run as Peter (r), Mark (2nd
from r) and Andrew (Maple Leaf spi) fight it out for the lead. As I
recall, Marc and I (red spi) had a poor first beat and rounded near
last. ... |
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| Judging by mast
lengths, we (red spi) appear to be fighting George Blanchard (2nd
from l) for 6th here. ... |
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| Having assured himself
of buoy room, Peter (r) wisely does an early spi take-down to
reduce the risk of a SNAFU during the rounding. Unless Mark (7673)
still has realistic hopes of breaking the overlap in time to stick
Peter with "no room" at the mark, 7673 should do an early douse also -
not just to reduce risk of SNAFU but also to do what Dr. Stuart Walker
recommends in situations such as these: Slow down and win!! ... |
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| Once 7673 realizes he
can't break the overlap in time ... ... |
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| ... he should do what
he can to avoid getting trapped to leeward of the inside boat after the
rounding. ... |
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| Here, he could have
doused the spi earlier, put the board down to soon, vastly overtrimmed
the main and - easiest of all, sailed a bit wider of the mark -
anything, in fact, to avoid ... ... |
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... this!!! Here,
Mark (7673) is sitting in Peter's wind shadow and has compounded the
problem by overtrimming his main and jib when he should have been
footing off into clear air before trying to pinch Peter off, if he
must. Andrew Gumley (jib in too tight too soon!!) has the spot that
Mark wanted out of this rounding: Andrew will have relatively clear air
and the freedom to tack away whenever he wants. Andrew is
to all intents and purposes ahead of Mark here already!
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| Now fighting for 4th
with three other boats (l to r) Roger, George and Bill - Marc
and Al (r) have gone to some trouble to end up on the inside in
order not to get trapped outside after rounding the mark. ... |
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| A perfect picture to
illustrate Rule 18 (buoy room) here: Roger (7700) is just about exactly
two boatlengths from the mark and it is clear that Al (to windward of
Roger) is not only overlapped with Roger but has been for a second or
two. This means Al is entitled to room from Roger at this mark - if
Al can get there to claim it (which he can't quite manage as seen
below). To avoid this kind of risk, Roger should have worked very hard
to sail a course that would get him into the "two-length zone" without
having to make the radical course alteration outside the zone as he has
had to above. ... |
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| This was one time Al
and Marc (l) decided to risk a very late takedown just in case
they could still arrive in time to make Roger give room. Alas, while
Marc was - as always - up to the task, Uncle Al got so excited that he
buried the tiller extension under the starboard deck during the
last-second gybe and could not luff
up properly around the mark without ... ... |
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| ... bearing away
first!!! Bill and Brian (l) meanwhile have done a speed
takedown, too, but all that went wrong with theirs was one loose pole!! ... |
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| Brian Egan,
super-crew: now that his jib is trimmed, Brian grabs the vang to get the main in faster (note the slack mainsheet - blue - which awaits Bill's attention) ... |
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| Mike Codd rounds just
ahead of John de Boer. ... |
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| Starting the second
beat, the top 6 are very close: Bill Fyfe who has already tacked away
out of the picture plus (l to r) Mark Taylor, Peter Rahn, Al
Schonborn with Roger Shepherd right off his bow, and Andrew Gumley. |
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