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Lightning 14366 Nickels (1989), off-white hull and deck, very good condition, ready to race. Travel, mooring (new), mast and rudder covers. Tacktick Micro compass. Galvanized Nickels trailer with mast support, light bar, spare and two dock boxes mounted on the front of the trailer. Like new North Fisher Main, jib and R-2 spinnaker. Two main and jib practice sets of sails that are well used and one spinnaker. New mainsheet, spinnaker sheets and halyard. Freshwater boat.

Pictures at: http://flickr.com/photos/hergan_family/sets/72157607554167723/

Located in Delta, PA for the winter. Contact Mark Hergan markhergan@comcast.net 443-756-1670 

Price: $7,800 for everything or $6,800 without new set of sails or $6,600 without new sails and compass.

She is an awesome boat.  Unfortunately, the kids are not into sailing.

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I was able to get out and watch a little Hydroplane racing this weekend. The APBA Ragin’08 on the River was held at Port Deposit, just a few miles north on the Susquehanna River from where the Duck was held last weekend.

More photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hergan_family/sets/72157607047888277/

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Jason Werner, Brian Debrincat and Heather Dodd won the Duck with a 1,2,1,(3),1,1.

For complete results and photos of top 5 finishers:

http://lightningfleet192.org/duck-regatta/2008-results/

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The story from the crew: John was encouraging them to hike harder and while demostrating he missed the hiking strap and flipped off the boat.  John was not wearing a life jacket but did have a hold of the mainsheet and was dragged along behind the boat.

Based on the time codes on the photographs, it took 1min and 12 seconds to get John in the boat and sailing again from the time the above shot was taken.

We were able to rescue his favorite Lightning hat but not his glasses.

Here is the sequence…

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Unfortunetly, we had to get our middle to BWI airport and could only sail the first two races on Sunday. So, we sailed back to Tidewater after sailing to two 5th places, tied the Lightning up and dropped Steve off so he could deliver a boat to the Chesapeake from Portland Maine. Dominic picked us up at the lift with the Grady White, up until that point Dominic had camera duty.

Dominic, Ruben and myself then proceeded to document the days races on film and video. Dominic drove the Grady White, Ruben shot video on my new Flip video camera and I used the Nikon with the 500mm lens. We shot over 2700 photographs and 30 minutes of video.

The best 900 photo from day 2 are posted on Flickr at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hergan_family/sets/72157606937054395/

The best photos from Day one are posted on Flickr at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hergan_family/sets/72157606915616191/

As always the images are posted with the hope you share them with your friends and family. If you sign-up for a free flickr account, you can even get them printed and delivered to your house.

The video from the day will be posted over the next day or two.

Enjoy.

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At 8am it looked like a repeat of Saturday in the Wind department but, at 9:30 the wind began to fill. The first race was sailing in light and shifty conditions but by the 4th leg the wind settled in from the south at a steady 8 to 10 mph.

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