| 2004
AEC
Wayfarer Worlds Thursday's sailing - 1 Paul Robinson photos |
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| Wednesday night's club
race: ... |
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| John Weakley (l) and
Frank Koreman on duty ... |
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| Thursday morning: the
Port Credit-based half of the fleet prepares to leave the harbour in cool, northerly winds gusting to over 20 knots. It feels like fall. ... |
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| Frank and George,
before the latter ... ... |
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| ... heads out for
races 4, 5 and 6 today. ... |
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| Cold, gusty winds,
lots of wave action on the lake - feels just like home to Ed and Winnie
from Aberdeen! ... |
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| Ed Gillespie and
Graham Barker (8888) thread their tricky way out of the harbour. ... |
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| Stephan Nandrup-Bus
and
Alan Bell (1539) prepare to head out. PCYC pool buildings in the
background. ... |
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| The ramp action heats
up. ... |
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| Michael McKechnie and
Simon Turner appear to be trawling for something as they head
out - or perhaps the spi pole will act as a sensor to tell them when
they're getting too close to the million-dollar yachts on either side? ... |
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| Waiting for the day's
first race: John and Dolores de Boer (7351) ... |
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| Silverfox
(7351) and Banshee check to see how the day's odd wave
conditions - two-metre left over rollers from the SE overlaid with the
chop from this morning's N wind - will affect downwind sailing. ... |
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| Ditto for Ted Lacelle
with Don McLean (3133) and Alan Bell with Gordon Reid (1539) ... |
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| Testing the upwind
possibilities are John Hartley with Nick Philp (7628) and Mark and Paul
Taylor (7673) while Jeff and Barry Cox (661) come reaching across on port, ... |
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| Very nicely trimmed
for the upwind going are Doug Honey and Becky Robson. ... |
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| The first (I think!)
race of the day coming up. The line has been set and the fleet checks
it out. Andrew Haill and Julie Colbourn nearest the camera. ... |
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| Less than a minute to
go (for full-size
version, click here) ... |
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| The jockeying begins.
(for full-size
version, click here) ... |
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| Neil Fletcher (9644),
Heider Funck (600) and Brian Lamb (10201) have everything trimmed the
way it should be, and ... ... |
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| ... aboard our RC boat, Weakley's pith helmet is on at the correct angle, too. |