Race training on Sydney Harbour
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khiemtranSunday morning, and the Pacer and Mirror fleets are out for some race training on Rose Bay...
Here you can four Mirrors is varying states of readiness. In practice, we only use three. Shearwater is second from the left.
It's a gloomy day, but the wind is fresh, and the rain, for the most part, held off.
We spent a lot of racing around a short, tight course. Here you can see most of the other boats are coming head on because they've already turned around that yellow mark.
Close-racing conditions call for quick decisions. Here we are about to pass behind Frenchie, who has right of way. A boat on a "port" tack (meaning the wind comes over the port side) always gives way to a boat on a "starboard" tack.
A glimpse of Shearwater's emblem in flight, as we head towards the bottom mark.
Room please! Here the Pacer needs to give us space to round the mark, which is just off-camera to the left.
Getting a spot of mid-race coaching. I really should be sitting on the left here rather than kneeling in the middle of the boat.
Mixing it up with the big boys on our last race...
The boom makes a handy selfie-stick. I think here I'm checking that we really are coming dead last...
Here you can four Mirrors is varying states of readiness. In practice, we only use three. Shearwater is second from the left.
It's a gloomy day, but the wind is fresh, and the rain, for the most part, held off.
We spent a lot of racing around a short, tight course. Here you can see most of the other boats are coming head on because they've already turned around that yellow mark.
Close-racing conditions call for quick decisions. Here we are about to pass behind Frenchie, who has right of way. A boat on a "port" tack (meaning the wind comes over the port side) always gives way to a boat on a "starboard" tack.
A glimpse of Shearwater's emblem in flight, as we head towards the bottom mark.
Room please! Here the Pacer needs to give us space to round the mark, which is just off-camera to the left.
Getting a spot of mid-race coaching. I really should be sitting on the left here rather than kneeling in the middle of the boat.
Mixing it up with the big boys on our last race...
The boom makes a handy selfie-stick. I think here I'm checking that we really are coming dead last...
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