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Adjusting

Setting up

Competitors stop to make adjustments.

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Max Howard setting up Comet in the park.

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Fresh wind

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Skiff Marie in a fresh breeze and a wind sends big waves upwind.

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M Phillips reaches under skiff Fay to move the keel aft.

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The spinnaker

Posing

The spinnaker is up on skiff Fay for the downwind leg.

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Janet Mahoney poses with a 2ft model skiff Comet.

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Racing

Approaching the mark

Racing and skiff Vera makes a good start.

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Skiff Fay, left, approaching the mark.

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Rowing

Upwind

Rowing to keep up with skiff Ivy.

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The winner Roy Phillips' model Rose sailing upwind.

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George McGooghan

Downwind

George McGooghan (1922 - 2009) with his racer, Joan II. McGoogan, born in Balmain in 1927 and a...

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Skiff Joan II runs downwind under perfect control.

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Measuring skiffs

All eyes

NSW Model Sailing Council president JP Aiken measures the length of Comet. He uses calipers to make...

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All eyes are on skiff Joan II.

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Getting ready

Starting

Max and Comet ready to launch.

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Heading out to the start of the race.

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Tacking

Mast and shrouds

K Heydon tacking skiff Dynamic by holding the end of the boom.

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Mast and shrouds at hull.

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