race 3 pics

A very close battle shaping up over 8th place: Christian Bovet (5128) can still get 8th ahead ofSøren Jonasen (4123) and Joel Bøgh (8278) if he can get buoy room on both of them.Joel has recovered very well after being far down in the fleet starting the second beat! Well done, Joel!!

Mammut about to take 3rd and showing fine form...
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... as is Mogens Just in 4th...
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... and Poul Ammentorp in 6th (although that spinnaker head wrinkle might be removable
by letting off the spi halyard a couple of centimetres???)

Notice how stretching the (spinnaker) luff by lowering the pole has opened the 10212 spi leech nicely
as Søren Jensen and Annette Hansen cross the line in 7th place.

Today, the racing does not end at the finish line. With free fadøl awaiting the sailors, most of us (like Steen and Carina above) kept the spinnaker in perfect trim to get there before Regatta Chairman, Jesper drank it all! Uncle Al and Anders took this to extremes by spinnakering right into the small Farum harbour and dousing the spi only two lengths from the dock while going at full speed in a gust. Luckily our Regatta Chairman, who is very protective about his Whistle, was too busy testing the øl to notice this manoeuvre.

Another crew that knows the value of a good post-race beer. Note how Irene gives 100% of her concentration to the spinnaker while Poul can just see that beer keg from here!!
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Will Søren (4123) manage to get past the veteran, Joel (8278)?
If these two get into a luffing match, Christian and Lone (5128) could still sneak into 8th.
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But no - Joel luffs up after picking up speed and he and crew, Jon Kjartansson, hold on to take 8th ahead of Søren and Lise Jonasen and Christian Bovet with Lone Holm Hansen who complete the top 10. The UK team of Paul and Andrew Knowlson in Sidewinder (9116) approach the leeward mark in the background on their way to a 13th...
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... just behind these three who are having a serious fight over 11th. If you're expecting to have to sail high right after the gybe, you must make very sure that someone makes sure the spinnaker is pulled around to its new side during the gybe. Otherwise the spi fills on the wrong side and takes heaving to to a whole new level as it has here on 2042 and 4898. 10249 at least got the spi most of the way around to leeward and will be in the best shape to come out of this mess ahead of the other two. In fact Steen Schubert and Keld Forchhammer did nail down 11th ahead of Bo Christensen with Thomas Anderson while Stephan Nandrup-Bus with David Magnussen ended up DSQ (but I'm not sure why). Completing the top 15 were Mikael Mogensen with Esben Holst (14th) and Jacob Knudsen with Peter Kirkegaard. And special mention to Elisabeth and Ulla who got 6301 off to the best start in this 36-boat fleet and looked so good early in the first beat but had everything go wrong after that and ended up a disappointing 18th despite sailing well.

Best races: Other crews making this race their best of the series were

Jørgen Vekslund with Steen Anthonsen who completed a fine race in 20th
Claus Eriksen and Peter Christoffersen who took 23rd place
Christian and Helge Larsen in 28th, and
Gunnar Kondrup with Per Vilstrup who were #31

Søren and Annette rush ashore in good form.
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Christian and Lone looking great as they cross the line. They obviously have
much more wind than those poor boats struggling to keep their spinnakers filled in the background!
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A few more fine boat portraits from Christian Friis to round out his fine performance at the shutter.
Above we have Stephan Nandrup-Bus and David Magnussen in 4898.
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Looking fine in good old W2042 Fru Larsen are ...
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... Bo Christensen and Thomas Anderson.