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2008 Wayfarer Midwinters Andrew Haill's photos - 2 2008 Wayfarer Midwinters… and subsequent road trip down the coast ... |
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| upwind
work ... ... |
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| ... on
the
second beat ... |
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| Shadow
leading
downwind ... |
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| Richard and Michele ... |
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| more close action at the next
leeward mark ... |
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| Dave Moring (r) and Kevin
Rankin make a lovely rounding. ... |
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| Jim Lingeman, sailing solo, will be
busy
during this rounding in particular. ... |
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| Ready for a "close and close"
rounding are ... ... |
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| ... Sue Pilling, making her Lake
Eustis debut
with ... ... |
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| ... Scott Tillema. ... |
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| Swami Richard works
on his ... ... |
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| ... precision balance technique ... |
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| evening on Lake Eustsis ... |
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| evening light and
water ... |
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| Heather Wood ... |
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| Mary and Lori ... |
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| view from
Andy’s
mobile home park on
Lake Eustis ... |
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| Andy and Lori in front of the
Château
Douma ... |
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| the
soggy return of
Nick Seraphinoff and Maltese
Falcon
after the high wind final race … a watery fate we only narrowly avoided after a downwind error half-filled the boat ... |
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After
conclusion of the Midwinters, we headed east to reach
the coast |
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| Dune vegetation
and
beach at the Canaveral National Seashore (a real treat after most of the waterfront thus far had been occupied by homes or hotels) ... |
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| Lori temperature
tests the Atlantic ... |
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| walking the surf
line ... |
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| miles of solitary beach ... ... |
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| ... not
even
a footprint ... |
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| pelicans
in
flight along the water's edge ... |
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| easy directions to
the Kennedy Space Centre ... |
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| just
for
scale ... |
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| Shuttle launch pad
… we had missed the Atlantis
launch by a
few days. ... |
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| It’s big ... the
Saturn V
first stage ... |
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| Just add liquid
hydrogen and oxygen. ... |
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| An uncommon tour
sight - the payload for the next Shuttle is moved in a
mobile clean-room ... |
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| Something suggests
this spot south of Cocoa Beach can be home to a party. ... |
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| a final wade in the Atlantic ... |
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| en route via Lake
Okeechobee and miles of sugar cane fields and glades to the departure from Fort Lauderdale |
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