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PaulBJE
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Registered: October 2010
Location: Kingsclere - North Hampshire
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Tue, 11, January, 2011 11:00am
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Really like this one Richard. Real sense of 'being there' Good contrasty print but all the detail is retained in the highlights.
Paul
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Barry
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset
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Tue, 11, January, 2011 8:20pm
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I agree, great image and print.
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Cheers, Barry
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Ed_P
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Registered: January 2010
Location: Exeter, Devon, UK
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B&W Neil
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Registered: October 2008
Location: West Cornwall
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Wed, 12, January, 2011 4:56pm
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Very nice - full of movement.
Neil.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle
Neil Souch
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Disderi
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Registered: September 2010
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Sat, 22, January, 2011 4:13pm
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even i feel seasickness....... :-))))))))))))
great photo....
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Rodrigo, in the middle of Spain.
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youngrichard
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Registered: January 2010
Location: West London
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Mon, 24, January, 2011 7:12pm
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I suppose I should have explained that this picture was taken on passage from Gibraltar to Madeira in 2003. The negative is old but the print was fresh as I revisited and tried to get the best out of it. That's 650 miles of open sea, and we had a beam wind all the way, so that we were reaching; this is the best point of sailing. Beating close-hauled into the wind means that you are slamming into on-coming waves with sickening regularity; running before the wind means that the boat rolls from side to side uncomfortably with the ever-present danger of gybing, possibly breaking the mast. Reaching with wind on the beam ie at right-angles to your course, is every sailor's dream. Speed through the water is greater than running because the course at right angles to the wind increases the apparent wind speed putting more power in the sails, whereas running downwind actually lessens the apparent wind speed. Best of all the motion is a regular hypnotic surge and slow, surge and slow.
We had more than enough wind; as you see we had shortened sail with 4 rolls in the genoa foresail, and what you can't see is a reef in the mainsail. We averaged over 9 knots for 3 days, that's over 216 nautical miles per day. One of my most exhilarating sails of all time; in this picture we are just going into a thrilling surge; the boat slides over the top of a wave, lowers her bow, gathers up her skirts, and wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............!
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