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Photography Note<br />

Photographing the big schooners like Eleonora is definitely a step up from the more flighty Metre boats especially when you are up close on the bow. The power of a yacht on this scale screaming past you is quite<br />

frightening. I love this shot though as it was taken during some close racing between <strong>Mariquita</strong> and Eleonora. We had taken a calculated risk and come across her bows in the the rib as she headed up to a mark<br />

off Gurnard. As we swung round on her starboard side the foredeck team popped up on the bow preparing for the next tack. Eleonora is fully powered up here just like Westward would have been back in the day.<br />

It was one of the few occasions that Eleonora got the better of <strong>Mariquita</strong> during the 2015 season. B.W.<br />

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