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The Bacardi
rum flag flies over the Sailing Centre at Geneva Park
as Jimmy and Elaine
Clouston from the Orkney Islands finish unpacking their Wayfarer.
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Registration:
(l to r) Richard
Stone, Giles Bowman, Sharon Stone and Geoff Hodshon ...
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... complete
the registration formalities ...
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under the
eagle eye of Darlene Collins (r) ...
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... and Julia
Schönborn.
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Tom LeFeuvre
and Rob Wylie of Ottawa's Lac Deschênes SC check in.
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Sponsored
by Canada Maritime Agencies Ltd., most of Team UK brought their
own boats
which were delivered
right to the site in these three containers.
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The
Wilson family: Joan, Helen and Neil leave no doubt about their loyalties.
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Earl
Schnur arrives from Lake Orion, Michigan in his freshly re-built W1028
while Roger Shepherd
snaps a memento of Uncle Al.
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Busy times!
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One of the
favourites for this Worlds, Julian Redman, gets his sails approved...
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... by Jack
Taylor.
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Tony Perkins
(l),
James Harden and Tony's dad, ???, try to decipher Canadian coins?
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Tony Perkins,
Giles Bowman and Trevor Newley on Measurement Day.
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Centreboard
check under the supervision of CWA Chief Measurer, Mike Codd (2nd from
left) as Geoff Hodshon, June Underwood (soon to be Mrs. Robin Barker),
Trevor Newley, Philip Hodshon and Robin Barker look on.
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Supervised
by June, the team of Frank Hendriksen and Keith Davies test the buoyancy
of W5208
which they towed
nearly a thousand miles to get here from Fredericton, New Brunswick.
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Trevor Rose
demonstrates the time-honoured method of shrinking a spi that didn't quite
measure in.
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A re-epoxied
Martin Collen rudder blade dries out...
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... while
Geoff Hodshon does a bit of cosmetic epoxy surgery on Nipegegi.
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