Above: Finn the spectator, slightly blasé...
Last week was regatta week on Plumper Sound. Pender Race Week (if you are interested in the race results, check out the RIPS website here) held by the Sydney North Saanich Race Club, was on. From August 14 to 19, we watched a colourful flotilla battle it out every day.
Above: A pretty sport, sailing, when the spinnakers are aloft...
After going round the marker, they put up their spinnakers and really moved back across the sound at a good clip.
Above: These two boats looked like they were performing a very close dance...
I could see that these sailing competitors take their racing very seriously, and bluff each other around the buoys that mark the course (may I be forgiven for my lack of sailing vocabulary!). There was quite a bit of shouting, whistling and so on when boats came very close to colliding.
Pender Island was the base for this race, which lasted five days (from what I could see).
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