| the 2007 Rock Hall
Weekend Friday: before the River Race pics mostly by Uncle Al ... |
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| After a warm and cozy
night, not to mention a delicious breakfast at Lee and
Karin Cowperthwait's home, The Castle, Marc and I arrived at around
0900 at the CRYCC. It was just past high tide and a spring
tide at that. ... |
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| God, how I love to re-live
the fun of our regattas by doing these picture captions
half a year later!! In all my 50+ years of sailing, I had
never seen anything like this: notice John de Boer
standing on the dock in the distance ... ... |
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| ... uncovering
W7351!! It has to be a different feeling stepping up into your Wayfarer
off a dock, and with an ... ... |
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| ... audience, too! (l to r) Marc,
Dotty, Dave Hepting (Mike Murto's crew), Mike, and Dolores
de Boer who looks happy to be where she is, well provided with her essential morning coffee. ... |
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| Nick Seraphinoff and
daughter, Julie, had arrived too late to rig up the night
before. ... |
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| A striking view of our
parking lot as ... .. |
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... the sailors make
their way across it. I have to tell you that I was
seriously tempted to launch right here what with the
boat needing only 6 inches of water to float. But the
tide was going out fairly fast and I ended up taking a
pass, fearing we might end up stranded in mid-parking
lot, a prospect too embarrassing to contemplate!
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| You don't suppose that this is how ... ... |
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| ... Jesus managed to walk
on water??!! ... |
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| It will pay to stock up on
sustenance sources for ... ... |
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| ... this potentially
lengthy race. ... |
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| We rigged up our boats
while the waters receded. ... |
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| Lori and Jason have pulled
in with Green Side Up,
as has Andy (r). Mary
(l) arrives with
the look that indicates she didn't drink her fair share
last night. Windmiller, Allen (blue sweatshirt), meanwhile, wonders if
his ace crew will ever
arrive!! ... |
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| It's a gray morning though
nowhere near as uncomfortably cold as the night before. Not much wind as yet, and the overcast, cool day bodes ill for the development of any "sea breeze". ... |
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| Aha! Allen's crew has
arrived!! ... |
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| Linda Heffernan
immortalizes the submarine docks. ... |
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| Registration duly gets
underway, and our ... ... |
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| ... Ottawa teams check in (r). ... |
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| Just in case the sun does
come out!! ... |
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| Some of us look better
registering than others. ... |
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| Colette Bolton will be
crewing on the Hobie 20 for her dad, Chris. In the background, John de Boer, has returned safely from his adventure on the submerged dock. |