First Look: Racing begins at Chatfield Lake for the Colorado 2012 Leukemia Cup

2628 Santana 20, sail no. 50, Toby Hammer's "Sockeye", near the beginning of the 2012 Leukemia Cup at Chatfield Lake. ~ ~ ~ /) ~ ~ /) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2629 Santana 20, sail no. 50 J/22, sail no. 1326, Ken Barbe's "Pass Me Knott", which started the regatta with two first-place finishes in the J/22 fleet. This group of snapshots is a sampling of the action early during Colorado's Leukemia Cup Regatta on Saturday, 23 June 2012 at Chatfield Lake near Denver, CO, USA. 3630 One of the boats competing at Lake Chatfield makes a close approach to the signal boat during her start; David Ostrander's J/22 "O", sail no. 523 3631 An even loser view as "O", the boat shown in the previous picture starts near the race committee signal boat no. 3632 General view as the fleet beats up toward mark 2 near the Chatfield dam no. 3634 J/22 sail no. 284 belonging to Jed McClelland no. 3635, J/22 sail no. 284, another look