Shelley runs the show...full stop.

She manages to get the boys ready for the day's racing, get the right people to the right place at the right time, and then get the rest of her family home in time to cheer the boat as it passes below her home.  After the race is over she will often show up back at the club with the cheering section in tow.  She does all that, and she never seems tired.  Amazing!

Colin enjoys his boat!!  Especially when the instrument on the mast, or the GPS, or the laptop, or the wake, or the white water, tells him that Pooh has lifted off through the 12 knot barrier...then the grin gets wider.

Ian is the boat's Senate.  All ideas with respect to alterations, additions, deletions, or for that matter anything else with the potential to change the performance of the boat, are submitted to Ian for a second opinion.  

Ian is the grand master of flying an asymmetrical spinnaker.  He can make the reaching kite go deep, or the running kite go close to the wind.  He manages to control 91 square metres of 3/4 oz NorLon as though it were a handkerchief.  

As can be seen in the accompanying image, Ian can also jury rig a trapeze from a boatswain's chair when additional righting moment is required

Zane and Colin carry on a constant conversation back at the blunt end of the boat.  They seem to be doing everything from discussing which side of the course has better pressure to trying to find the next mark of the course...we don't always have the GPS on board so sometimes we just gotta look around the bay.

Sheila seems to be able to predict what virtually everybody else on the boat is about to do, and then she either locks, releases, or plays out the appropriate line at precisely the right time and rate.  All this without anybody saying anything.  

Becca works along with Sheila to keep the lines in the cockpit from getting totally snarled, which in turn makes for a much more pleasant race for the rest of the crew.  She has been racing as a core member of the Pooh Crew for several years, seldom missing a Thursday evening race.  

Graham likes to try just about any job on the boat.  He frequently helps out on the foredeck, he untangles wet kites in the v-berth, he now has the size and strength to work the mast, he calls out the wind shifts and puffs, and he provides the folks at the back of the boat with suggested tactics.  

He will occasionally helm the boat.....very well.

For some unknown reason Mike seems to have an unshakable preference for the foredeck.  That in spite of having fallen through the hatch, getting totally soaked in the most modest of winds, and getting battered and bruised while tying on a kite in heavy weather.  There is no explaining foredeck people.

Mike co-invented the "Go Mike!" maneuver.  You gotta be there to understand.

Blaine is the newest member of the Pooh Crew.  Thought he would try something a little bigger and faster than the Bluenose that he normally sails.  Poohsticks showed him 14.7 knots (on the GPS) during the last race of Chester Race Week.  On a scale of 1 to 10, his grin went to 11.

Paul Taylor; Guest Crew

Paul lived in Nova Scotia for most of his life...then his career took him out of province. However,  once a Nova Scotian, always a Nova Scotian, so every year Paul returns home for Chester Race Week.  

Paul is very familiar with the waters of Mahone Bay and area, knowing where most of the submerged keel bruising things are lurking...a very good thing to know.  He also is capable of doing just about anything on the boat.  Needless to say, the crew is always happy to see Paul come home and join in on a race.

Alex has become a more frequent member of the crew in 2008, frequently helping out (very well mind you) when we are short handed.  Alex has no problem flying the mainsail of the J/92. 

In 2008 Alex competed in the Canadian Opti Championship,  placing very well on days when the wind blew 20 knots. http://opti2008.ca

Malcolm was the 'Main Mann' during the 2007 Awards Banquet where he represented his family and the boat.  He did an excellent job.

During the summer of 2008 Malcolm completed his  first year of sailing lessons at LYC.  He then competed in the Green Fleet during the Canadian Opti Championship held at LYC in August, 2008. http://opti2008.ca