Post Tagged with: "Wildwind"

Wildwind – two great weeks

by 4 July 2009 in Photography, Fun Comments are Disabled

All done. Last night out with new friends tonight. This seems to be the best photo of me at sea from the fortnight — no exciting Tiger or Fox pictures: Final photos uploading in the background including some good high-wind shots of cats, windsurfers and a kite board. Will post […]

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Wildwind race day

by 3 July 2009 in Fun, Photography Comments are Disabled

Race day was comical, with lulls followed by moderate gusts from various directions. In a mixed fleet, Remko and I were first over the line in a Tiger two out of three in the morning. For the third, Remko took a unilateral decision to put in a capsize in the […]

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Hobie Tiger at Wildwind

by 29 June 2009 in Fun, Photography Comments are Disabled

Wildwind 58 – Version 2, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. No photos of me today — Beth was busy — but a few good shots of others. This is a Hobie Tiger, the boat I used to own.

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Mildwind week 1

by 28 June 2009 in Fun, Photography Comments are Disabled

Wildwind 31, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. This Hobie Fox with me at the helm is beam reaching with spinnaker, chasing down a Laser Vago, and without trapezing too. This should not be possible — beam reaching with spinnaker that is — because there should be more wind and it is […]

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The weather is a cruel mistress

by 26 June 2009 in Fun, Photography Comments are Disabled

Vassiliki Bay Panorama, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Too little wind this morning and a storm this afternoon, so we took a stroll, discovering this magnificent grasshopper (cricket?). Grasshopper, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

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Wildwind day 2

by 23 June 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Good breeze this morning and another good sail in the Fox. Still no heroic photos: maybe tomorrow. Wildwind 135, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

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Wildwind day 1 (yesterday)

by 23 June 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Wildwind 47, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Shortly after this photo was taken, the wind picked up to a gentle force 3, enabling a brisk sail in a Hobie Fox, a fast Formula 20 catamaran. We achieved some hull-out broad reaching with spinnaker and the crew on the trapeze, which was […]

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