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A great
start for Elisabeth
Geday and
Ulla Riber (6301) and for Paul and Andrew
Knowlson (9116) at the
pin end while Søren and Lise in 4123 look pretty
good, too.
Unfortunately
for them, this was a General Recall - note evidence
of some boats over
early at the boat end, one in particular!
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In the
second try, the wind has
oscillated
towards the right and the boat end is favoured by
quite a bit. Uncle Al
was off to a decent start right at the boat end -
but not as good as
Ton
Jaspers and Giel Bloks (4917) and another boat who
were just off our
bow.
Elisabeth and Ulla (6301) show that their great
start in the first try
was not just luck...
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... as
they have moved out in
front only
seconds later. Uncle Al has started to catch Ton
(4917) while Poul
Ammentorp
(239), Flemming Nielsen (5797) and Mogens Just
(4546) are all working
hard
to keep/get clear air. Closer to the pin end, Per
Christoffersen and
Joakim
Gundel in 4633 are behind with the wind having
oscillated to the right,
but when the wind swings back to the left...
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Uncle Al has tacked to port on the header ... .. |
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to tell who was where up ahead - except that Anders Friis was once again out in front! ,, |
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and even with Søren Jonasen (4123) who had almost won the first race. .. |
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as opposed to a "tactical" (wide and close) rounding. Jonas, in fact, overdid the close and close bit and hit the mark. .. |
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20
seconds later, Jonas still
shows no
signs of doing his 360 for hitting the mark, and
even the always calm
and
smiling Anders is beginning to sound peeved as he
urges Jonas to get
off
our wind and bloody well hurry up (its Danish
equivalent, actually) and
do his turn. Jonas explained that he was looking for
a suitable spot. A
protest would doubtless have found that the turn
could have been done
much
sooner than Jonas did it. In this position, nothing
is keeping Jonas
from
starting his 360 by tacking, or, if he wants to go
off to leeward to do
the turn, he could/should luff his sails, wait for
Al to go by, and
then
bear away and do his turn. (Al's note: I just
noticed something I
had
almost forgotten: if you look closely at the bow
of our boat, you will
see something sticking out and up at deck level
that looks more like a
sex toy than a spinnaker sheet catcher??? Jesper
claims it came from a
skipping rope - a likely story!!!)
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Notice
how the winds have
picked up a
bit. Both Flemming (5797) and the two Madsen
leprechauns (little people
in Ireland), Steen and Carina, are showing excellent
upwind form with
the
rudder angle indicating no sign of heel-induced
weather helm. In the
background
(left), we see Anders' father, John Friis, and Mary
Jakobsen taking the
relaxing way down the run in 3264, while on the far
right in the
distance
we have the three Europes practising again.
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Unfortunately,
Christian did not
get pictures
of the boats finishing which would have shown Anders
and Sune winning
again
but not without a challenge from Steen Schubert and
Keld Forchhammer
who
completed an outstanding race in their Mark III in
anden plads. Poul
and
Irene Ammentorp also moved into medal contention with
a 3rd ahead of
Per
Larsen and Poul's son, Steen. Another fine 5th for
Søren Jensen
and Annette Hansen while Flemming Nielsen and Henrik
Frengler scored a
very well sailed 6th. Following Flemming were Mogens
Just (7th),
Søren
Jonasen (8th) and Stephan Nandrup-Bus with his second
straight 9th.
Completing
the top ten was Steen Madsen who edged out club mate,
Joel Bøgh,
and Uncle Al who had his worst finish of the series
with a 12th after
again
failing to find the favoured areas of the second beat.
Next came Jacob
Knudsen who edged out the UK helm Paul Knowlson, and
Hellerup's Bo
Christensen.
Best races: Outside of three boats already mentioned from the top 15 above (Steen Schubert, Per Larsen, Flemming Nielsen), no one else had their best finish of the series in this race. |