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| Meanwhile, Dave (282) is about
to climb yet another step on the comeback ladder into 2nd place, while
... ... |
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| ... Andrew (r) closely pursued by Brian (6082)
and Jamie (4594) will take over 3rd place. ... |
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| Another nifty rounding for
Andrew is accompanied by a gust that has Penny scrambling. ... |
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| A close one coming up here as
Jamie arrives at the leeward mark just before ... ... |
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... Brian. It is essential for
Brian (6082) to have planned ahead here rather than to just react to an
unanticipated predicament. With only a short beat left to the finish,
there
won't be much time in which to catch up, so he'll need to position
himself where he'll have useful options. In this case, he surely
won't want to get below the line of three boats just off his bow, where
he will be trapped until the dirty air from in front finally spits him
out. There is no time for that. Instead, he needs to slow down and win
(as Stuart Walker says) so that he can tack immediately after he passes
the mark, or if he really loves port tack here, begin to try to pinch
up over the boat(s) in front of him.
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| Another angle of the same
sequence: Good! An overtrimmed main will
slow him down, but Brian should also have ... ... |
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| ... borne away some more earlier
so that
he can ... ... |
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| ... luff up to closehauled right
close to the mark without hitting Jamie's transom. ... |
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| Eek! This is exactly where Brian
didn't want to end up!! ... |
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| Not too much later, Dave (black
hull) comes across on starboard, perhaps 100 metres short of laying the
finish line. Here, what he should fear most is ... ... |
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| ... a last second lift just when
he wants to tack for the line, one that after his tack would quite
possibly knock him down
into Brian (l) and Jamie who
are coming in on starboard. Right about now ... ... |
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| ... Dave, if for nothing but his
peace of mind, should tack while he has great pressure and no starboard
lift, i.e. tack while the tacking is good!! ... |
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| Dave does indeed tack. He and
Carol will have no problems crossing 'em all, and ... ... |
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| ... will cap an excellent race
with a 2nd-place finish - this after a miserable start!! ... |
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| Wow! Quite a finish shaping up
as Jamie (4594), Bill (yellow) and Andrew (4610) are all in the hunt
for 3rd. If Andrew can lay the line - and it'll be close!! - it'll be
bad news for Bill. In fact just being to windward and astern of Andrew
on a beat is bad news since he always appears to sail considerably
higher than the rest of us (see
photo above and many earlier ones!). ... |
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| Andrew and Penny are in perfect
trim and once they put Bill into their backwind, the latter is ... ... |
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| ... doomed. ... |
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| Now Bill has to worry about
laying the mark, since a tack would likely lose him Jamie (4594) as
well. ... |
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| Flawless form as Andrew and
Penny chomp across the line in 3rd place. ... |
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| Bill (r) will have just enough room to
lay the mark and place 4th, just a smidgeon ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Jamie and Ben who look ... ... |
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| ... great, and in turn beat out
... ... |
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| ... Brian (6th) and Tim (7th). |
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