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| With the wind in a port-tack
knocked phase (as evidenced by the much
closer second reach), Brian and Dave should be considering a tack to
starboard which is of course correspondingly favoured. ... |
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| Note that Bill (yellow) has
indeed tacked. Brian (6082) has been much too nice to Dave who is being
allowed to stick his bow in to windward of Brian's transom where Dave
can now block Brian from tacking. ... |
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| The point becomes moot as Dave
has tacked. ... |
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| Brian does look good here,
speed- and trimwise, but if he sails into the expected lift, Dave will
be on the inside of it after he tacks. On the right, Al and Marc
continue to defend the windward mark against Bill. ... |
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| Lovely form for Brian and John
in Afternoon Delight. ... |
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Look at that John hike!! But
with all due respect, this is a high risk/low reward situation Brian is
going into. He'd need a big shift or dose of extra wind to move up from
the 3rd place he now holds. All he's doing is letting Dave have a good
shot at moving past him into 3rd, when by staying with Dave, Brian
would enter into a symbiotic relationship with Dave since the two could
then boatspeed test against one another!
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| The Abbotts and ... ... |
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| ... Jason with Lori, as well as
... ... |
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| ... Robin and Carolyn have
passed ... ... |
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| ... Alan and Tim whose ... ... |
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| ... spinnakering has turned into
... ... |
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| ... quite the ... ... |
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| ... adventure!! ... |
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| Relaxing times aboard the Robert M. Holdham, although PRO,
Mike Trant, remains alert for the possible need for course changes. ... |
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| Janine ponders the meaning of
life? ... |
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| Regatta Chair, Robin Allardyce,
favours the photography boat with the smile that must have gotten all those LDSC members to volunteer to help with the Ontarios. ... |
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| A lovely smile from Carolyn as
well. ... |
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| Regardless of your position in
the race ... ... |
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| ... this was a lovely morning on
which to be alive and sailing. ... |
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| Al and Marc have successfully
defended the windward mark against Bill (r). ... |
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| Marc checks our position
relative to the mark. ... |
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| Aha! I knew we had overdone the
heel-to-windward bit on one of our roundings. I think I lost my grip on
the mainsheet here, but this sure did encourage SHADES to bear away onto the run!! ... |
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| Having already plotted to gybe
and defend the left side of the run (other things being equal), we
gybed tout de suite. In the background we see Dave (l) and Bill (behind our jib) coming in from the
left side of the beat. ... |
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| Spinnaker hoist time, but we
must keep an eye out for Bill who will be ... ... |
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| ... tacking towards the mark (and us!!) and who will be on starboard. |
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