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Wayfarer
Ontarios Lac Deschênes Sailing Club * July 28-29, 2007 Saturday race 4.2 pics by Doug Netherton ... |
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| Being pretty sure of laying
the
mark, Al and Marc take a few seconds to confirm strategy
for the
upcoming first reach. Here ... ... |
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| ... they are making sure
they
know where the gybe mark is, so that Al will know where to
steer after
he rounds. ... |
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Meanwhile, an
interesting
battle shapes up over 4th place: While Andrew H. (9657)
is about to
tack for the mark, Jamie (green deck), John (7351) and
Colin (CL16) are
just about dead even and appear to all be laying the
mark (where I
believe our photographer is sitting). Jamie's crew, Ben,
looks with
justifiable concern at John who is to leeward and edging
ever closer.
It is clear that footing off will not let Jamie move
ahead of John and
take his wind. So, right about now, Jamie must crank his
main in and go
into pinching mode. Even if this slows him down and
makes him drop
behind John, he will still be on a line to lay the mark.
In any case,
that option would have been preferable to ...
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| ... this, where Jamie has
to
slow down radically and is then ... ... |
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... panicked into a
tack.
Still, if Jamie tacks back now, he may still get around
ahead of John
and Colin who now have troubles of their own as Tony
roars in and sails
over their wind. Alas, we'll never know how this turned
out since there
are -puzzlingly - no more pictures of this sequence.
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| How can we tell that Andy
is
more used to keelboats still, than Wayfarers? ... |
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| Port
Tack Too is heeling way too much and Andy is
fighting the
resulting weather helm with his rudder. He should ease the main and flatten the boat here. ... |
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| The second reach: Al and
Marc
have finally passed the spinnaker-less Buttercup team of
Bill and Deirdre. ... |
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| But wait. Is Bill going to
pass
Al to windward? Perhaps briefly, but Al will stay low and
eventually
his spinnaker will ... ... |
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| ... make the difference. As
can
be seen from relative mast heights, Sue is sailing well to leeward of Bill to give her spinnaker a chance to let her break through. ... |
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| The leeward mark at the end
of
that reach: Having helped Al get the main in quickly, Marc
now fine
tunes the jib as SHADES begins the second beat in first place. Bill, meanwhile, will end up ... ... |
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| ...inside of Sue (4677) who
will
round a close 3rd, not too far ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Frank (648) who has
made an
amazing come-back, even with just two sails, and now sits
4th, just
ahead of John. By the end of the race, Frank and John will have moved up to finish 2-3 behind Al, relegating Sue to 4th and Bill to 5th. ... |
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| It'll be a close 6th for
Tony at
the leeward mark, just ahead of Jamie (4594) and Andrew H
(9657). ... |
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| We finish Saturday's
pictures
with a classic sequence of ... ... |
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| ... Dave and Carol Hansman
working their way up Lac Deschênes in their beloved ... ... |
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| ... Banshee. |