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OUCH! Despite the huge fleet on
one start, and the open rather
than prequalifers-only Worlds,
only one boat was badly damaged...
in the practice race.
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A pack approaching the gybe mark.
Macy Nelson/Jeff Ewenson
in foreground,
David Porter/Peter Holden astern,
German team behind Nelson/Ewenson,
Howard Hamlin/Mike Martin in front.
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Same pack a second later.
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Mike Zani/Peter Alarie (7318)
lead
Mark Upton-Brown/Ian Mitchell
to the gybe mark.
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Robin Brown/Rich Mundell
gybe, with
Dietrich Scheder-Bieschin/Johan Arvedson
inside (and apparently trying to dive)!
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Howard Hamlin/Mike Martin pulling away from the chasing pack.
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Who says 505 racing isn't tactical?
Ethan Bixby/Cam Lewis (7093),
(8627) Tim Collins/Bill Smith
visible through Bixby/Lewis mainsail
Neal Fowler/Dave Dyson
(yellow hull inside),
Ellen Ablow/Allan Norman (7873),
Terry Neff/Bobby Nois (8576)
trying to get inside, and
Jim Englert/Thad Melton
coming in behind.
A lone Brit team (8680)
is to the far right of the image,
looking for some place to go.
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Tyler Moore/Scott Ikle leading a bunch into the mark. Hamlin/Martin are close behind.
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Phillipe Boite/Jean-Luc Muzellec with a German team chasing.
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Team Spot (Barney Harris/Jesse Falsone)
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Macy Nelson/Jeff Ewenson (8191) with Ali Meller/Les Crane (8263) to windward, during a windy pre-worlds race.
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Mike Zani/Peter Alarie racing the ageless Dumptruck, Lindsay 7318.
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Nick Trotman/Mike Mills in the Green Room Rondar 8610
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Ethan Bixby/Cam Lewis racing the same Lindsay 505 they won the '81 Worlds in, 7093. Gary Knapp/Lewis won the '82 Worlds in this boat as well
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Bill Pevear/Jan Ase try for
liftoff, with two other boats
going high on them.
Can you believe that
6821 - built in 1978 - is still going strong?
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Julian Pearson racing the windy Worlds race with Dennis Burroughs (who took time off from the publicity team to fill in for an injured crew)
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Bryan Largay/Matt Sanders racing the ageless Punishment Pony Hamlin 7096
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Pearson/Burroughs
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Legendary Marcel Buffet
is going to kick your butt!
M. Buffet won the 505 World
Championship in 1959 and 1960,
and has raced almost every 505
World Championship ever held
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Bixby/Lewis chasing a pack.
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Trotman/Mills (8610) chasing Tim Collins/Bill Smith (8627).
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1998 International 505 World Champions Nick Trotman/Mike Mills
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Packing the containers.
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Nick and Mike receive their trophies.
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