Down the Chester River Race
& RHYC One Design Regatta,
Rock Hall YC, June 16-18, 2006
Friday pics - 2
(mostly) by Uncle Al

Shall we sail the Laser or the Hobie?
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George Kuney and Susan Bloomgarden set up their Hobie 20.
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Two Chesapeake 20s sit ready, as are two Windmills (sails up on shore) as race time (11 a.m.) draws near.
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The excitement mounts.
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A very old Windmill competed this year.
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Despite their eagerness to do well in this race, Al and Marc took pictures for the first few minutes after the start.
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In the early going, we were doing nicely with much of the fleet behind us.
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Shortly after this picture was taken, we hit a big dead spot and plummeted to second-last place. No pics after that, until ...
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... we had finished the race, grabbed a beer, etc. Then we captured poor Nicholas Place and his lovely crew who ...
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... were one of many boats to hit a huge dead spot near the finish.
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The Chesapeake 20 Fleet is prettily moored.
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A surprise as Tony Krauss and Mary Abel came from way back to finish 2nd among the 7 Wayfarers ahead of ...
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... John and Dolores de Boer.
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Tony and Mary were to ...
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... do very well in the racing this weekend!
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A fine 3rd among Wayfarers for John and Dolores in their first River Race.
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Bill Harkins and Charlie Zapf ...
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... roll in.
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The Wayfarer beach
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a last pic by Uncle Al before his date with the Dark and Stormies
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But even from the Rock Hall YC's fine deck, and with my Dark and Stormy clutched in one hand, I could still capture the drying procedure of the de Boer spinnaker.
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more post-race clean-up
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