| the
Wayfarer
Ontarios Lac Deschênes Sailing Club * July 28-29, 2007 Saturday race 3.4 pics by Doug Netherton and Tom Douma ... |
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| Lightweights ... ... |
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| ... Steph and Sue hike
their
little hearts out in a duel with ... ... |
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| ... the somewhat more
"substantial" ... ... |
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| ... Andrew and his
hard-hiking
crew, Steve. ... |
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| Sue wins the battle here
and
will round in a moment or two ahead of Andrew. The latter
will,
however, win the war, so to speak, ending the race in 7th, while Sue will finish 10th. Is there a story here, Sue? ... |
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| Andy and Tom not only
enjoyed
this fine breeze, but Tom also had the camera out to get
the next
couple of shots, in which ... ... |
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| ... Al and Marc are
cruising
down ... ... |
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| ... the River, though not
on a
sunny afternoon as the song would have it. ... |
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View from the finish
line: Note
how race winners, Marc and Al are positioned near as
dammit directly
between the most feared threat (7351) and the finish
line. In order to
properly defend against 3rd-place Jamie (4594), John
(7351) should be
tacking right now
to
gold-plate his 2nd. Alas, he leaves it too long and ends
up ...
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| ... in a most exciting
virtual
dead heat with Jamie. John is footing for speed but here,
his best hope
is to luff up at right angles to the line (shortest
distance!!). As it
turned out, Jamie held on just long enough to grab the
2nd-place beep
before ... ... |
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| ... John passed him. What
an
exciting finish!! The RC must love this kind of
entertainment!!! ... |
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| Andrew Haill and Colleen
near
the finish line as ... ... |
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| ... PRO, Stuart Pursey,
gets set
to beep them. |