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Martin
and
Martin check out their light-air chute.
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And
John and
Dolores are also trying a different spinnaker today.
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Shortly
after
the start, the fleet splits with Alf Easy (not seen in this photo)
leading
a pack going right that included Joe Schnur (2957), Fred Webster
(3133),
Joe DeBrincat (1115), Hubert Dauch (1191) and Ian Porter (7588) who is
just completing a nice roll tack and hoping to cross Jon Townsend and
Don
Parker?? After a good starboard tack start, Uncle Al (not in this
photo)
meanwhile leads the pack going left first.
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Not
off to
the best of starts, Julian Redman (8189), Jimmy Clouston (7676), Martin
Collen (88) and Keith Davies (5208) struggle in the disturbed air and
water
left over by 30 W's that have just passed through.
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A
long hill
to climb for both Ian Porter (7588) and Martin Collen (88) as the
latter
just manages to squeeze across the bow of W2488, Rick and Diane Appel.
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About
2/3
up the first beat, Alf Easy (4688), Colin Wilson (1), Bill de Boer
(7351)
and
Martin de
Boer
(7364) are among the leaders coming out of the right side on starboard.
Soon after
this,
Alf would meet and cross Uncle Al by about one length.
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Alf
then proceeded
to the port tack layline all alone and ended up with a big lead over
second-place
Al who chose a more conservative approach and stayed with the other
leaders.
That may be Al about to round second on the extreme right side of the
photo
above.
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Nice
recoveries
after suspect starts for Tony Perkins (7043), Julian Redman (8189) and
Jon
Townsend (6288)
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A
nice puff
for John Pocock and Ian Brennan as they come in from the left side.
Fine
form, too!
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Rick
and Diane
Appel also scoot along in a nice puff of their own.
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Al
rounded
2nd off the first beat - with too much mast bend. In fact, it occurs to
me too late, that this photo
has to be
from
an earlier race in the series since no one wore wet gear or PFD's in
race
#6!!
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A
close reach
coming up as Alf Easy continues to enjoy his comfortable lead whereas
Uncle
Al (3854)
will have
his
hands full with British light-air ace, Tony Perkins (7043).
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Approaching
the gybe in 4th and 5th are Robin Barker and Geoff Hodshon.
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Graeme
Hinton
(7900) and Nick White (82) are also right up there.
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That
magician,
Geoff Hodshon (198) has somehow managed to sneak by Robin Barker into
4th
place.
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The
second
trip around the gybe mark sees Uncle Al in 6th place...
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...
having
dropped behind Tony, Geoff, Robin and Ian.
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Still,
Al
and Julia are hanging on ahead of Richard Stone (7th), Julian Redman
(8th),
and race 5 winner, Trevor Newley (9th) who is just about to gybe.
Sitting
10th and watching his title hopes fading fast is Jon Townsend who is
just
ahead of Martin Collen, Brian Love and George Blanchard.
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