Here's a link to the free Kodak Gallery where I uploaded 32 of Chip's pics from today:

Monday photos

Wow! Thanks, Barb - I needed the break. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wow!!! Some nice boats. How good is USA 99?

Berny

Barb, Thanks! What a great treat to come home to after a long day/night at work! Please thank Chip for me! Wonderful Wonderful!

According to my opinion the most interesting photo in this album is the one showing the boomless new Smyth main.
However photographers should take more pics ashore in order to let us have a look at the new boats and rigs (for istance so far I could not find a sigle pic of the new Marstrom M5)

It's there, pictures 16,19 & 27, the differences are quite subtle, flatter rocker line, slightly squarer bow.

many thanks to the photographers, keep the pictures coming please.

Thanks Daniel

I was not sure that the Marstroms pictured were the new M5 design, since, as far as I can argue from the photos, they have not canted hulls as announced.
Do you know which platform, mast and main is sailing Luc Du Bois?

Luc is sailing the new Scheurer G5, cannot say for certain what his current rig setup is, but when I saw him earlier in the season he was sailing with an Ashby sail. I am not sure which mast he was using. I am really sorry to be missing this event, it looks fantastic and the breeze sofar is just the way I like it.

regards

Daniel

Thanks again Daniel.
The Scheurer G5 is another boat which deserves some close shots.
No doubt Luc is very fast (see also the results of the Blu Waters Classic)

I have been sailing one since July, it is beautifully built and fantastic to sail, a good step forward in my opinion.

D