| 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 ... ... |
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| ... W7351!! ... |
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| 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. |