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Wayfarer Ontarios Lac Deschênes Sailing Club * July 28-29, 2007 Saturday race 2.1 pics by Doug Netherton and Tom Douma ... |
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| Before race 2: Al and Marc will
be all set for the race, once Marc finishes standing to leeward. ... |
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| The happy winners get set for
race 2. ... |
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| As do Al and Marc. ... |
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| Al checks to see what weather is
coming down the river. ... |
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| Back to the drawing board for WindShadow with Andrew Gumley and
Steve Grundy after a first-race 11th. ... |
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The course having been
expeditiously adjusted to the new wind direction, the race 2 countdown
has begun. A relaxed SHADES
team kills time, waiting to get on with Job 1, making sure John and
Dolores don't get a huge series edge by beating Al and Marc a second
straight time.
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| Seconds to go before the start:
Judging by the distribution of boats up and down the line, this is ... ... |
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| ... a good, fair line. ... |
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| Still living close to the edge,
Colin makes a port-tack approach, and then ... ... |
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| ... tacks smoothly under Sue,
and gets a pretty fine start out of it. John (7351) is very nicely
positioned, but his main looks oversheeted for the light breeze and
disturbed startline air. - for full-size pic, click here ... |
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| The others are all sheeted
somewhat looser, and ... - for full-size pic, click here ... |
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| ... John (7351, note the stalled
tickers) will need to be very careful of his speed. - for full-size
pic, click here ... |
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| (l
to r) Dave, Al, Tony (4105), Paul Pinault, Jamie ... |
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| Colin (929) is pinching here -
note the hooked leech on his main! This is a double-edged sword: If
he's lucky, he'll backwind Sue (4677), but if he pinches too much, Sue
may be able squeeze past, take his wind and make him ... ... |
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| ... tack!
You can just see Sue under Jamie's boom (4594), and I would guess she
sailed over Colin's wind. Not too many palatable choices for Colin in
that situation: If he had footed off too much, he would have ended up
in Frank's (l) dirty air.
Meanwhile, Al (2nd from right)
is sailing along to windward of John (7351), pointing a bit lower than
John. This should give Al a bit of extra speed as he will try to get
into that all-important windward-and-ahead position. By the same token,
the leeward boat needs - by footing off - to fight against windward
moving ahead since it is crucial not to let windward blanket you. Once
that happens, you can kiss that well-known part of your anatomy
good-bye! - for
full-size pic, click here ...
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