the 2013
Wayfarer Midwinters Friday: Mike Baldacchino race pics - 1 ........ |
A perhaps overly casual
gybe into the heave-to position has resulted in a Team Feckless capsize
prior to Race 1. A slo-mo self-rescue featured a near-turtle
(Greenlander, for you Danes out there!!) when Al was for once on the
leeward side and a bit slow to untangle himself. Once Al had swum
around and gotten a death-grip on the rudder, the mast was pointed
about 45° down and would not come up for quite some time despite
Tony's best just under 200-poumd efforts. Finally W864 was mast-up -
not to be confused with tits-up - once more. First thing we did was get
the board full up before turning to the task of getting Al back aboard.
I am happy to report that despite some misgivings on Tony's part,
getting Tony to heel the boat to Al's side until the rubrail was level
with the water (I had a bird's eye view of this!!), made it a snap
(well, not too hard anyways) to slide myeslf back aboard. Note how, in
the photo above, we have the board fully up and the sails fully eased.
No forward motion and the tiller to leeward a bit just to be on the
safe side. Tony, who does not have a heart condition, got to do the
bailing while Al relaxed and supervised - stopping short of having one
of our few beers which may or may not have survived ...
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Race 1
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Looks to be a nice, square
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We're off - especially
10874, Rob Wierdsma. ........ |
Nick (10864) is seriously
knocked but won't want to risk a tack at this time. - click
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The first reach ........ |
(l to r) Peter, Al,
Marc, Richard J, Rob -
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Jim Heffernan is out of the
picture to leeward somewhere. - click here for
larger image |
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