Sailing February 26th 2011

Some people will go to lots of trouble to go for a sail.................

   
                     like Dudley............... who came 'Special Delivery'

               on Piranha ... there is a good woman in charge..............well she's practising !!!.

             and she has a few role models................................

            ..................   maybe it was High Tea?

   Immigrant had the lady boss aboard.........while Jeff and  the boys did rescue duty.........

                                                                           
                                                                 Fuzzy overdid it with girls................

                                                       Jan got Liqidator over the start line .........

                                           on upshot they tried their hardest to get rid of the girls  ...

                                                                                   

                   .............Dirk would have saved her as Rag top came past........

                           
                            or maybe Piranha ......had room for one more ..........

                                                               

                     Barry had Jeanine and Sophie to keep him sweet.......

                                                                           .
                       
               On No Problem we tried scare tactics...................

                                                  but the girls hung in there...............

                                   Rick and Jan hung in as well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

                                                                                                    
                                        on the 'Boy' boats we had ................

                                                                  a lonely moth............

                                      the guys on intrigue......................

                                                                    
                               Rob , Trey and crew on Solitaire   

                                                                                 
                      and the Super Freaks..........

                  
              the boy on our boat who does the yelling!! ....just so we can hear apparently... all being deaf!
                                         

             
                                                                                 
                                                                          

                           Upshot on the level           

                                                                 the start

                                                  and the biggest boat of them all

                                                                           


                                                                                                                                    

Heats Four and Five of the CQ titles - held at Rosslyn Bay Yeppoon.

Well it was a day that definitely lacked for colour.Rosslyn Bay was still brown and muddy from the floods, the wind was gusty up at Wreck Point where I took a few photos, and the sky was grey all over. Most of the shots look as though I took them in Black and white!

Crews were busy preparing for the race...

                  Don Fuller and crew on Stargazer of CCYC

                                 Robert Rosendahl repacks a spinnaker

                                                                             
  Tooing and froing before the start ..............

                            
             Situation Normal arrived a little late and were a longggggg.... way away , however  lookin good..

                                                            
                            Right in the middle of it all comes.............

                                                                     
                     Arcadia dropping her kite ...  they all dropped kites very early I thought !

                                                   ............. except Immigrant :) 

                         Who hung on to hers for a while .............

                                             Super Freaky and Star gazer ( I think)  

                                                                             
                                              Wayfarer .. and that is in black and white!

                                                  But it was Loco who won in the end

                                and with such a dull outlook is it any wonder i gave up and went home?

                                                                  but back where the sky was blue ..

                             .......at the PCSC Lynne Campbell was keeping an eye on the dinghy fleet 

as the Impulse sailors rigged up...

the lasers were ready to go.........

the girls got the oil happening

while mum, Jenny was doing her part...............

waiting ..waiting...

the Coopers waited for them all to be ready..............until finally ..

off went Phoebe,

Way to go Hannah,

hmm.. slight issue there Simon!

and finally John braved the creek as well...!