| 2004
AEC
Wayfarer
Worlds the fifth day of racing - 4 photos by Kim Bergevin |
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| (l to r) Gordon
Harris,
Stephan Nandrup-Bus and John Hartley have recovered well
after
unspectacular starts, but ... ... |
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| ... it will be
Graham
and Robin Barker (8888) - seen here ahead of Richard
Johnson (l)
and Søren Jensen (r) - who ... ... |
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| ... round the
mark ... ... |
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| ... in first
place. ... |
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| A quick spinnaker
hoist by Graham and Robin for the brief offset leg,
while the Taylor
brothers (7673) and the Rahns (286) ... ... |
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| ... will round
2-3
just ahead of ... ... |
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| ... Gordon Harris
(968) and Uncle Al (3854) with Toby Mace? to windward of
them and Hans
Gottschling with Pedro Santos in The Nutshell
(938) just behind
them. Al and Marc (3854) have recovered very well from a
bad start and
will round 6th or 7th. ... |
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| Both Peter (l)
and Mark have waited til the offset mark to ... ... |
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... hoist
their
chutes. The mark in this photo is the offset mark, and
Gordon (968),
Søren (9355 who has come in on port and tacked
underneath at the
last second) and Al (3854) still have a few lengths to
go before
reaching the windward mark. Ted Gadd (7699) has now
joined the
procession in front of Hans (far right).
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| Peter (286) casts
an
anxious glance astern. And why not? The hordes are ... ... |
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... on their
way!
It's a slow hoist for Uncle Al (r) as another
red spinnaker
(Toby Mace) is already filled and straining to catch
Al. Other from
left to right: Ted Gadd in front of Hans Gottschling,
Jay Colville (and
his pink hourglass!), Steve Carroll (6066, his best
first leg yet!) in
front of Paul Laderoute who has fallen back in the
last couple of
hundred yards to the windward mark, John Hartley, Guy
Hacon (making a
much needed recovery from a poor start, too), Doug and
Chris Ryan (dear
old dad making his only start of the Worlds a fine one
as he filled in
for Chris Purtle who had to leave) and Brian Mills
with Louis Jaillet
(4675) also looking excellent.
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| Graham Barker
(8888)
opts for the left side of the run, letting his nearest
pursuers, Mark
Taylor (7673) and Peter Rahn (286) go off to the right.
If nothing
else, Graham will have right of way, should these three
meet again near
the gate. ... |
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| Two light-weight
crews, Ted Gadd with Wendy (7699) and Jay Colville with
Ian Harley
(404) stay right while Steve Carroll and John Attwell
are gybing Fanfare
(6066) to go left. ... |
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| A lovely, quick
hoist
for Hans Gottschling and Pedro Santos (yellow, red and
black spi) as
they try to get past Paul and Alan Laderoute (7380) and
John Hartley
with Nick Philp in Fantasia (7628) who will have
to hurry and
get their spis filled before Hans takes their wind. ... |
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| Guy Hacon (8686)
has a
nice puff as he nears the offset mark and begins a major
comeback that
will bring him back to 11th, just enough to edge out
Uncle Al for
series 7th by a single point - for full-size
image, click here ... |
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| A header for Hans
(938) while Peter Kozak (300) still struggles to
complete the first
beat. All else being equal, Peter should have gone right
on the beat as
soon as he realized lots of boats would round ahead of
him, because by
staying left, he is now sailing in wind that has already
been used and
depleted by dozens of boats going to the offset mark and
then starting
the run, as can be seen ... ... |
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| ... here. Guy
(8686)
meanwhile, is cleverly sailing high to increase his
apparent wind before he tries to bear away and sail deeper. ... |
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| Louis Jaillet
(4675)
will no doubt invite his helm, Brian Mills, to get the
spinnaker all
the way up as soon as Louis gets the pole taken care of.
Not too many
appealing options for Roger Challis (9174) until Doug
Netherton (1366)
and Paul Laderoute (r) get a bit further away.
Not the best of
days for Kit Wallace (1037) as he too, limps through air
that has been
chopped up by dozens of boats. ... |
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| Meanwhile, rush
hour
at the windward mark continues. ... |
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| Paul (7380) has
to be
sure to keep clear of the boat off his bow who is the
leeward boat. Roger Shepherd and Joanne (7700) head right on the run as Heider Funck's bow enters the picture from the ... ... |
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| ... left corner.
Meanwhile, Mike O'Malley and Justin Denny (551) get set
to pop the chute and set off in pursuit of Dwight Aplevich in Eclairelle. ... |
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| Still busy times
at
the windward mark: (l to r) Alastair
Ryder-Turner with young
Andrew, the Isle of Man men: John Dowling with Terry
Holt, Bob Kennedy
with son, Scott, off the bow of Alan and Lesley Chaplin,
UKWA Chairman,
Liz Feibusch with Frances Lilley (10000) and Vancouver's
own Doug Honey
and Becky Robson. ... |
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| The beauty of a
run:
there's room for everyone to find their own lane of
clear air. ... |
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| John and Dolores
de
Boer prepare for their spinnaker hoist in ... ... |
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| ... a fair bit of
traffic. Annelies Groen (300) appears all set to harpoon
a whale while
Kevin and Shirley Pegler in Wildwood (1071)
wisely steer for
emptier spaces off to the right side of the run. ... |
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| As Kit Wallace
and
David Weatherston (finally) pilot Ab faB past
the windward mark
just behind Andrew and Nigel Gumley, John Dowling (8322)
fins a good
escape route by gybing to port and heading left. ... |
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| Geoff Edwards and
George Waller (9483) have the inside track on Ed and
Winnie Gillespie
(7525) as they round the windward mark. |