Bob's last race? ... I was only 1 vote on the jury.

Bob has had better weeks. (I did get some great pictures of them). But, let Bob recover...

Bob, it was great to spend some time with the 2 of you (out of the jury room that is).

Mike

btw, I have over 5000 pictures from the 8 days. This one is my favorite (not bad considering the camera would take a picture every 5 seconds). This picture has not be retouched (or leveled--can't you tell?). Look at the rudder cavitation. There was about a 14 knot breeze at the time and the mark is rolling through the waves taking pictures every 5 seconds. This shot is what I call 'lucky'.

Stuff like this makes me really love photography. You guys are great for providing such a great subject.

Nice pic H20. Can't wait to see it in full res in the Hotline!

J

Hey Mike it was nice meeting you again.It has been a long time since the Canadian Nationals in Kingston.BTW are you going to post any more pics on the web-site?I have already found at least 10 I am going to buy.

I hope to post another couple of hundred in the next couple of weeks. I was spoiled by the high speed network at the university (42mb/sec). I am now back at home with only 800kb/sec uploads. Once I have them up there, I will update this list.

It was great seeing all of you again.

Not trying to stir stuff, Bob, just wondering what was up (and if we can learn).

Mike, maybe it's the angle, but in that pic, it looks like all sorts of overstanding there. It appears that the green one (PUR 340?) is the only one even close to the layline.

Mike

The wide angle on the lens distorts the angle that the boats are coming in. There was a bit of overstanding becuase of an adverse current, but if you were caught in a position like PUR 340 (Francisco Figueroa), you were gasping for air. You can tell he's hardly moving after just being rolled by 544 and 16.

The skippers in the photo are (left to right):
Bob Merrick (16)
Greg Raybon (544)
Todd Wilson (663)
Mario Debeux (825), from Brazil
Francisco Figueroa (PUR 340)
Nicholas Rogers (821), from GUA

In a bigger fleet, nailing the line is deadly unless you're in the lead - everyone else goes a bit farther in order to come in with speed and not get run over. The little bit in extra distance hurts far less than the guys that come in from the port side, cross your perfect layline barely ahead to tack over and shut you down... now you're pinching in bad air just to lay the mark you had just a moment ago.

I know a lot of skippers, even when they're in the lead, that will overstand waiting for the guy in second place to tack. It makes for a fun ride...

I agree with both of you. You also just gave insight to the reason suicide port is just so tempting. By coming in on, or just shy of, the port layline, if you're lucky, you can sail the shortest distance even if you have to go a bit further to poke out before tacking. You can clean house on the mid-to-back of pack, who usually sail way past the layline. Pretty textbook, actually.

Mike

All

I am uploading a few hundred more pictures to my Walker Photography gallery.



Please pass it on to those that may have been at the event and want to sell all the other pictures.

It will take a few more days before they are all loaded. On one day, I was sitting in the dighy behind the R/C boat shotting with a wide angle lens. Count how many people stuck their tongue out at me.

Mike

Wow, for a minute there, that started to sound just like "This one day, at Band Camp..."

So, you were taking pics on the barging bouy? Nice!

Cool pics Mike. Can't wait to see more from Friday (the windy ones).

Mike

Uploading pics is interfering with my model airplane flying.

I got one of these, Parkzone Vapor and it is a blast to play with when there is no wind.

It would have been cool to have a few of these in the measurement hall at Cork.

Mike

All

Sorry for the delay. The last week has been a large distraction here at the cottage. A large storm wiped out power and internet (no internet for almost 70 hours)... How can people expect me to survive without internet????

I'm still uploading the final pictures into my All Pictures Gallery

Sorry for the delay, but if I can keep the kids of club penguin for 3 hours, I should have them all uploaded later today.

Remember, they have not been edited at all, so they are either twisted, cropped funny or the colour just isn't right.

All that is fixable.

Mike

All

I had to come home to real internet to get the rest of the pictures loaded. The cottage internet was up and down and the best I could get was dial up speeds. They fixed it last night (after I came home).

So, that last 56 files are uploading now, with last bunch of pictures being those from the camera I had attached to A Mark.

Mike

mike at portcredit dot net