Down the Chester River Race
& RHYC One Design Regatta,
Rock Hall YC, June 16-18, 2006
Saturday pics - 3
(mostly) by Uncle Al


Richard and Andrew Moakes move right along in their ...
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... 5-0-5 with Sandy and Cathy Downes following along in their Comet.
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The Moakes pace Faye Flan in her Laser.
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John Hauser and Jon Wasserman have their Five-Oh moving nicely alongside George Lewis in his Laser.
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Tony Krauss and Mary Abel conserve their energy by heaving to as they await race 1.
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Jim and Linda Heffernan have brought W2458 and its ancient sails up from North Carolina. Today, Linda has given up her crewing spot though, so that son, Mark, an Air Force pilot, can crew for his dad.
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Our host, Frank Pedersen, had daughter, Sarah, come in to crew, all the way from Idaho.
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Aboard SHADES, Marc Bennett will have the helm for today's four races.
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Randy Blomquist and crew head out in ...
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... their beautiful Chesapeake 20. Randy will place a close 2nd (one point) in the Chesapeakes' series.
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Ted Weche and crew in their 20.
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One of the beautiful Hamptons: Tom Ballantine and Nancy Younan ended up series 3rd losing 2nd on a tie-breaker.
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Lara Gates - one of five Gates in the Sunfish Class - sailed an excellent series to take top spot.
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The outer course start area (I believe!)
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Start of the first ...
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... Laser race.
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Laser winner, Mike Schmidt (121384) is off to a nice, sound start with ...
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... safe leeward on George Lewis.
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It was lovely sailing indeed!
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Bryant McGann and Stewart Leeth cruise the line in their Hampton as the ...
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... Lasers move off with Jon Deutsch (159785) moving well. He will place 3rd in the first race.
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Lasers looking good except for ...
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... someone who was OCS???
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Hampton halyard failure: A broken jib halyard kept William Carnell and Lars Florio out of all four Saturday races.
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