the 2004 Wayfarer North Americans
Saturday pre-race pics
photos by Jennifer Princing

The mark layers head out onto Tawas Bay on a glorious Saturday morning with on-shore winds beginning to build.
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The Princing twins once more.
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Today will be a sparkling performance for Brian Jeffs and Scott Bamford (W9235), and for ...
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... Uncle Al with Frank Goulay. This being the NAs, the new sails get to leave their bags.
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Bob Frick and Peter Every
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Nick Seraphinoff and Joe Blackmore ...
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... check the angle of the line, and ...
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... re-check their upwind settings as the winds increase.
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Paul and Lorrie McVey
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Brian supervises a last-minute spinnaker check by Scott.
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Uncle Al (in his almost 30-year-old fuzzy suit) and Wayfarer Man get set to check the line.
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Lorrie and Paul one more time
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Nick and Joe: poster children for downtown Tawas in the background?
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As Paul and Lorrie (2181) sail in the direction of the TBYC for a bit, Mike Anspach (r) and Sean Ring,
as well as Roger Shepherd and Joanne Kumpf (l) try the line coming the other way.
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Quick! Who needs to keep clear here, Brian (9235) or Roger (7700)?
Yup. Roger is on port, and ...
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... does keep clear.
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Lots of wind for all by now: (l to r) Mark and Paul Taylor (7673), Bob and Peter (3975), Frank and Al (3854)
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the 2004 Wayfarer North Americans
results
report
shore pics
Saturday pre-race
Race 1 Part 1
Race 1 Part 2
Race 1 Part 3
Race 3 Part 1
Race 3 Part 2
Tim Dowling's Saturday race pics
Race 4 abandoned
Race 4
Race 5
Sunday post-race, awards

Past North Americans
2003
2002
1999-2001
1974

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