| the
Wayfarer
Ontarios Lac Deschênes Sailing Club * July 28-29, 2007 Saturday race 2.3 pics by Doug Netherton ... |
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| Doing much better and
looking
far happier in this race are ... ... |
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| ... Andrew and Steve (r) as they prepare
to ... ... |
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| ... round onto the first
reach
in second place. Looks like this reach will be pretty
patchy and
shifty, as Marc tries ... ... |
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| ... to figure out the wind
direction here. ... |
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| A nice tack for Frank and
Kim
who will round 3rd, just nicely in front of ... ... |
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| ... Colin, Jamie (4594) and
... ... |
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| ... first-race winners,
John and
Dolores. ... |
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| Looks like Jamie and Ben
(4594)
will round 5th (I think the camera missed Dave Hansman who
must have
rounded 4th) ... ... |
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| ... behind Al (3854),
Andrew G
(4610), Frank, and the invisisible Dave, all of whom are on a virtual run to the reaching mark (r). ... |
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| Colin and Heather ready to
hoist
the Frumious spinnaker. ... |
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| The major veer (starboard
lift)
will have "killed" anyone way off to the left side of the
beat. (l to r) Paul, Sue, Tony, Andy ... |
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Sue is about to round,
as is
Andy Douma (555) with son, Tom. The latter needs to
guard against the
temptation to pinch around the mark in a false economy
of trying to
avoid two more tacks - if they
keep their speed up, two tacks cost next to nothing, but
sitting at the
mark will be damaging.
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| Sue and Steph go whole hog
and
gybe onto their "reaching" leg. ... |
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| Coming in from the right
side
are Jason and Lori who are now on a beam reach due to the
major
starboard lift. Even Paul and Marilyn Pinault are reaching
in ahead of
Tony and Mary. Looks like Jason and Lori had hopes for ... ... |
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| ... better things here! ... |
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Alas, our rookie, Andy, is
learning the hard way, that you have to keep the boat
moving forward. I
believe they finally did tack but left it too late and
tacked when they
had lost most of their forward momentum. Now they have
to tack back to
keep clear of the starboard boats, and are about to ...
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| ... get buried by Jason,
and ... ... |
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| ... then ... ... |
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| ... Paul (red shirt), and
... ... |
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| ... ultimately ... ... |
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| ... even ... ... |
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| ... Tony who had been well
behind. |