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Subject: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:29:11 -0400
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Well, that's interesting.  I had thought that the rocks and distant  
shore added to the drama by emphasizing the narrowness of the channel  
in which all this drama was occurring.

Thanks for commenting.


Regards,

Dick



On Aug 05, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Philip Price wrote:

> Lots of drama, and movement in the shot, just a pity about the rocks  
> in the bottom right forground.
> Regards
> Phil
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 6:56:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>
> ACK
>
> NICE
>
> ric
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
>> We almost never race through Woods Hole Passage on the Weekends.   
>> The powerboat traffic is just too thick and the current usually too  
>> strong..  Three Sundays ago, though, the wind was too strong to  
>> race in the Bay or the Sound.  So, since the current in the Hole  
>> was nearly slack at race time and the boat traffic was nearly nil,  
>> we did, only to run into an entirely different obstacle:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/klkd3w
>>
>> Ever practical, we just raced around them.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4230.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/mycc4q
>>
>> D300, etc.
>>
>> C&C fervently desired.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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