laser regatta and camera lust

Above: Jeff and Gord Gibson.

Just got back from the cottage, where Jeff and I had fun hanging out with various nephews and nieces as well as attending the annual cottagers' Laser Regatta at the Gibsons'. This year's regatta was different in Dan Gibson's absence...Dan was always the heart and soul of the event, after all. His fun-loving and enthusiastic spirit still pervaded throughout, and it was a wonderful afternoon.

Dan's oldest son, Danny, wielded his father's megaphone this year, while Jeff kept time and score:



Before the annual regatta began, participants did a "sail by" at noon in memory of Dan:



Gord let me use his camera during the event. I don't even want to speculate how expensive that piece equipment was, but I soooooooooo loved taking pictures with it! Darned heavy, though...not the kind of thing I could stick it my backpack and sling around the way I do my own camera. Anyway, all the photos on the page except for the one below were taken with Gord's camera.



My dad-in-law, during the regatta:



JBR was injured during the event, the first physical injury in the history of this regatta. He had finished one of the races and was floating in his boat, waiting for the others, when he started thinking about Dan and stopped paying proper attention to the wind...got smacked in the head with the boom as a result, and the boat overturned. He got a nasty cut and bruises around his eye as a result, but after getting patched up back at the dock, he went back out and sailed the rest of the races.

Ducks, flying overhead:



My brother-in-law, Case:



Jeff (looking darned cute, in my opinion):




Gord:



Willi Powell, who won most of the races:



It was a fine afternoon, with lots of laughter and fun-spirited ribbing, catching up with fellow cottagers and friends, and the weather smiled on us throughout.

I can't help but think that Dan Gibson would have been pleased.

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