Great Pumpkin 2010 - Sunday - Mark's Photos

[[posterous-content:pid___0]] Heading out to the finish line[[posterous-content:pid___1]] Lots of boats...[[posterous-content:pid___2]] Some right by us...Racoon Straits was a big parking lot after a while...[[posterous-content:pid___3]] Roger was actively trimming the main[[posterous-content:pid___4]] Michiel doing foredeck and Suzanne doing pit[[posterous-content:pid___5]] It's the 'Great Pumpkin' regatta...so we had to have a pumpkin pie...[[posterous-content:pid___6]] Trimming...right by the finish, sneaking in past Light'n'up[[posterous-content:pid___7]][[posterous-content:pid___8]] Suzanne and Michiel[[posterous-content:pid___9]][[posterous-content:pid___10]] in the parking lot, trying to stay focused...

Photos of Elise...and her new bottom...

From all possible angles... rest well Elise ;-)

Photos courtesy of Nathan

Simpson Regatta - people photo

All photos courtesy of Nathan

photographer photographed

Serge who has taken a lot of the other shots that I posted about a week ago

and the crew..wet...did I mention that it was raining?

Simpson Regatta Photos - Day 2

All photos courtesy of Nathan

More Photos - Simpson regatta - Day 1

Rainy weekend... After the first downwind leg of the first race... The boatyard had left a bottle of wine on the boat...and we needed something to finish the day on a high note after the pole incident...

More photos at the Simpson Regatta

All photos by Ultimate Yachtshots - http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com/

On Sunday, the wind died in the middle of the second race, we swapped head sail (switched to a bigger one) on the downwind - taking a hit on the upwind...the course was shorten (lack of wind) - then the race committee waited 1) for the wind to pick up again and 2) to be stable enough that we could set a race course. Unfortunately that took quite a while, some 45 min or so. Meanwhile we are sitting in the rain in very little wind...great Elise's scarf Hi JF and Nat

Hullo Mark

Where did Pete and Nathan go?

hanging out - nice view of sail trim half a JF, Pete, Nathan, Mark and Nat before some start

near some start at the Simpson's Regatta - Saturday

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A start at the Simpson's Regatta

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right at the start, Nathan and Pete are getting on the rail - we still have Mark trimming the jib and JF at the bow telling the driver to slow down or accelerate based on the distance to the line - indicates the distance with one hand in boat-lengths Nathan moves fast and jumps on the rail - how fast you can jump on the rail makes a big difference. 2 people on the rail - Nathan and Pete we are starting, just before the gun, 3 people on the rail last person is also jumping up we have started

Nat (driver) - Mark (trim)  - Nathan (pit/tactics) - Pete (trim 2) - JF (bow)

Simpson's Regatta Photos - Sunday

All photos courtesy of Ultimate Yachtshots - http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com/ hanging out before a start, probably in sequence since our jib was up the boat end of the finish lines (most lines with temp buoys will have a boat end and a pin end) right after crossing the finish line Getting close to the finish line (between that mark boat and a pin Nat and Michiel Going home...