| the 2008 Rock
Hall
Weekend pictures borrowed from Connie Ranney, RHYC web master - 1 ... |
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| Saturday morning: the fleet
leaves shore. ... |
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| Lasers await their start. ... |
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| I think this was the race 1
Wayfarer start: (l to
r) Frank,
John, Tony, Jim (on port!), Richard ... |
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| The Lasers are off!! ... |
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| Dyer Harris and Jim
Georgson in
Windmill 5400 approach the end of the first beat where Connie was in the finish boat and whiling away the time taking pictures. Bravo, Connie!! ... |
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| Joe Manley and Scott Raney
(3247) are the next to pass the reviewing stand. - click here for full-sized image ... |
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| Brennan Drysdale on his way
to a
first-race 3rd in Lasers - click here for full-sized image ... |
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| One of the Cats sails past
for a
visit. Either that or he was seriously banging a corner on
the other
race course! ... |
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| Harry and Megan Murphey get
set
to tack their Hobie. ... |
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Nice symmetry as Tom
Smith with
Helen Noble (3629) and two Laser Radials, Samuel Dobbs
(189783) and
Danielle Prior approach the windward mark. These two
ended the Radials
series tied for first, with Danielle getting the nod on
a very complex
tie-breaker because she had beaten Samuel in the final
race.
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| Megan Murphey with Harry ... |
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| If Marc is doing this badly
(2nd from right),
this must have
been the Wayfarers' 2nd race. (l to r) John, Al, Jim, Richard, Tony, Marc, Frank - click here for full-sized image ... |
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| Arthur Anosov and Danny
Florianovich
(5527), who won all 7 Windmill races, are about to round
with the
Windmill lead here. Meanwhile Richard Watterson and Mary
Abel (W10423,
making her racing debut) pursues the only RHYC Wayfarer,
Frank Pedersen
with Sarah (l). ... |
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| Lon Ethington and Meg Gimmi
(3886) ended up series 2nd among the Windmills. Here they
are about to
begin a run that no one was especially looking forward to, given the feeble winds. - click here for full-sized image ... |
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| Roy Sherman and
Chris
Dara (4500) start their Windmill run (which seems to
involve more
tacking downwind than most Wayfarer runs!) ... |
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| A nice fast whisker pole
set: a
skill I used to take for granted until I had to do it when
I began to occasionally crew on the spinnaker-less Rebel a few years ago. ... |
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| Dyer Harris and Jim
Georgson
look well trimmed and balanced here. ... |
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| How nice it was to see Dyer
out
sailing with us, after I had gotten so used his great RC
work!! ... |
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| Sarah Ranney was sailing
the
only Laser 4.7 and looks very good here. I must say I'm
happy that I ... - click here for full-sized image ... |
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| ... don't have to work ... ... |
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| ... an extension tiller
that is
this long!! ... |
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| Close Wayfarer action near
the
windward mark as Tony, John (7351) and ... ... |
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| ... Marc as well as Richard
Watterson (r)
battle it out. ... |
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| Wayfarers: (l to r) Jim (red
spi), Andy,
Richard Johnson, John, Marc (mostly blocking Tony from
view), Frank ... |
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| A nice little puff for Andy
and
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