Shelley is magic that makes everything possible.

She manages to get the boys ready for the day's racing and then get the right people to the right place at the right time.  She transports people, gear,  and Opieis to wherever the days racing is being held. After the race is over she will often show up back at the club to sit with the crew and enjoy a dinner. 

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, repairs, additions, deletions, or for that matter anything with the potential to change the performance of the boat, are submitted to Ian for a second opinion before Colin decides what should be done.

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.  

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. 

When Colin is unavailable Zane will take the helm so that the crew still gets to enjoy the race.

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 in the forward part of the cockpit  to keep the lines from getting totally snarled, and to release and tail lines at precisely the right time and rate.  As consequence of her job she sometimes gets quite bruised as she competes for space with the primary winches.  She has been racing as a core member of the Pooh Crew since her early teens, and is now very effective at managing all lines and halyards.   

Rebecca is currently off to Prince Albert Saskatchewan working a three month contract.  We await her return in the spring.

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 will 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.

This past summer Graham snagged a job with the Canadian Coast Guard on an inshore rescue RIB.  Concurrent with that the crew noticed that we frequently had a CCG escort as we raced :-)

Graham is building a radio controlled model of Derek Hatfield's Open 60.  It's a carbon fibre beauty. I'll soon post some pictures to this site.

Graham is presently at McGill University in Montreal for his second year of Engineering.  We wish him the best in his studies and look forward to his trips home.

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; Honary 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 and his family come home in time for Chester Race Week so that Paul can join us for the racing.

Alex has become very proficient at working the foredeck, especially during a spinnaker douse when it takes strength and speed to get the sail down quickly, followed immediatley by hauling up the headsail.  Alex can do both tasks quickly and correctly.  Makes Mike's life quite plesant.

Malcolm now has the size and skills to be able to competatively race his Opti in a good stiff breeze.  When not racing Opties Malcolm will frequently join the crew on Poohsticks for one of our regular club races.  He is a wizzard at programming the GPS, and has the eyes of an eagle often seeing a mark long before the rest of the crew.