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Originally Posted by Par Four
Is that picture for real? Geeze, I guess that guy really needed to hold that course? Was there contact?
Great photo though... I wonder if the sailing helmsman lifted the port side as an avoidance maneuver, or was he was already up on one side...
Would love to know 'the rest of the story'
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The watermark "
van der wal photo gallery" tells me it's real, all right. Professional photographer Onne van der Wal, Newport, RI, has taken the best action shots of sailing anywhere—
worldwide—for at least two decades. A career devoted to traveling to regattas around the world—what a gig, huh?
Since the upwind position at the start is so-o-o-o important in sailboat racing, I'd expect this scene to be repeated at many catamaran contests, with the size of the committee boat being a variance.
Trimarans could also "fly a hull" over the committee boat, but I think this one's going over.
This particular photo—below—is from an advertisement, but there are many other similar photos on the Web.
(The "1" at bottom-center is the leading edge of the downwind hull).