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And they are off! André and Monique
Girard neck and neck for the early lead with our hosts,
Jim and Brenda
Meara.
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Margie and Dick in a close race with Al and
Julia who are using the camera to good effect.
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As can be seen over the bow of SHADES,
Tom Erickson is off to a nice lead early while through
the window,
we can see Jim and Brenda also doing very nicely.
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With the race being mostly cruising boats,
we decided to ban spinnakers for this race. Here, Uncle
Al and Julia
have
been first to get a puff and have moved past André with
Monique
and Jim with Brenda.
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Nothing changes: Uncle Al sails the rhumb line
towards the NE corner of Cherry Island while most of the
others...
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... sail too high.
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Jim and Brenda in good form as rain clouds
mass on the NW horizon.
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W3098 should put on more vang to keep the boom
level and the main from overtwisting.
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Impressive looking clouds but the rain held
off until we got to the restaurant and even then, it was
just a few
sprinkles.
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As the boats start to
round the
end of Cherry Island,
Al's straighter course has paid off, and he is now
second behind Jake
Maarse
who is single-handing and has a 200-metre lead.
Experience paid off for Al who sailed well clear
of the lee of the island and got a more consistent wind
than Jake. As
the
leaders passed Cherry Island and began the beat to the
finish at the
docks
off the Shangri-La, Jake and Al were bow to bow
with Jake about
50 metres to windward. Now, in increasing winds of 8-12
knots, Jake's
lack
of crew worked against him. Al and Julia pulled away to
win easily with
crisp tacks and lots of shift playing which led to huge
gains over the
cruisers who tended to do the beat in a couple of
lengthy tacks.
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Second place went to Tom Erickson with Dave
Graefe (W275) ...
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... Jim and Brenda Meara (W9901).
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Tom and Nel Graefe were next in 4th...
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... before Jake rolled in 5th from the left
corner.
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the Frank Dye look
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Dick and Margie appeared to be shepherding
to make sure everyone was OK but still took 6th.
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And in 7th place from the right corner, André
and Monique.
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