Some of the images.
FRIDAY
Makeing sure the spin is properly setup.


Saturday morning, I was freezing my butt off!
Turning my boat around in a very tight beach.

Cary Palmer (ZUHL) is on starboard and Bruce (bobcat) aka Uni-Can is on port.

Starting to setup the sails

[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/13.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/14.JPG[/img]
Waiting for the beach to clear up some.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/18.JPG[/img]
Coast is clear, LETS GO!
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/19.JPG[/img]
The air was pretty chilly, cant imaging the water!
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/20.JPG[/img]
First taste of the waters temperatur. I thought, damn do I really want to do this?
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/21.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/22.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/23.JPG[/img]
I really have no choice, lets go. No turning back now.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/24.JPG[/img]
After the entire morning, freezing my hands and face off. We are back! Damn about time.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/32.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/33.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/34.JPG[/img]
I will get the wheels for you Cary :p
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/35.JPG[/img]
ARGH! I am one strong sailor! Oh no wait! those are the euro-trax, very light beachwheels.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/36.JPG[/img]
Bringing her unto the beach.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/37.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/38.JPG[/img]
After a weekend of sailing, boozing and having an overall wonderfull time; there is always time for some sailor brotherly love. Cary gives me a big friendly thank you hug.
[img]http://www.wildergfx.com/robi/tradewinds_2006/39.JPG[/img]

All in all it was a great weekend. Awesome experience, got to meet more F16 sailors. Specially Bruce bobcat aka Uni-Can that came all the way from Canada to participate in this event.

Hope to see you all there next year. Wouter! when are you comming down to participate in Tradewinds?

Bruce,

Great Pics of tradewind. Thanks for sharing....

Asim

Radar Love....

Robi,

your Blade looks very good! Do you also have some action images of you?

Out of curiosity, when it was cold saturday morning, what was the temperature? Interesting to hear what you feel is cold..

LMAO

I beleive it was mid 50's plus wind chill factor must have felt like high 40's to low 50's. If it is below 70 degrees faranheit, I am cold. Remember I have caribbean blood. We are extremely warm blooded.

As far as action images, I would have to see what Roy got, if any on his website. www.floridamultihullsailor.com these pictures were taken by my wife on the ground.

40-50 Fahrenheit would be around 5-10 degrees Celcius, and I agree that can be a bit nippy. Time to put something else than a cap on your head then..

There was a rumor that UniCan had an unfair advantage because of the weather. Did you see him flashing a little ankle?
I liked it so much I bought the company, no not really, just a boat.
Bruce

Another UniCan sighting! From Roy at Florida MultiHull
Bobcat
This isn't fast

Go to :

http://www.floridamultihullsailor.com/

To see more like these :





G-cat in action !










Here Seth Stern and Kelly Gray fully suited up, can you spot a piece of bare skin apart from their faces ?




And here our hero of the regatta : Bruce Barss adventuring the rough conditions of the event solo !

[img]http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/6..._2006_Bruce_going_solo_in_the_breeze.jpg[/img]


[img]http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/6...ruce_going_solo_pulling_the_headsail.jpg[/img]


And another one or Robi and Cary on a Blade F16 under spinnaker :


[img]http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/65586-Tradewinds_2006_Blade_F16_Robi_and_Cary_under_spinnaker.jpg[/img]


Wouter

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Hey Wouter, a quick headsup mate.

Attaching the images to each and every reply really clutters the threads. Try using the img tags. Here is how you do it.

Right click the image.
Select properties
Highlight the address/location
Copy the highlighted url
use the first img tag [ img ] (without the spaces)
paste what you copied earlier
close the img tag out with [ /img ] (again without spaces)

That way you will be able to post various images in one reply and you do not have save the image and then upload it back to the forum; because they are already ONLINE.

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In a while Roy will move the pics away from their current locations and then this thread will be full of dead links if we do it your way. Buy uploading the pics I can both resize them to a more practical size and secure that the thread interesting to readers in say 6 months time and more.

Wouter

True that.

I assumed that is what you really want to do.