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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!!
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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???) |
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as Søren Jensen and Annette Hansen cross the line in 7th place. |
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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.
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If these two get into a luffing match, Christian and Lone (5128) could still sneak into 8th. .. |
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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.
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Best races: Other
crews
making this
race their best of the series were
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much more wind than those poor boats struggling to keep their spinnakers filled in the background! .. |
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Above we have Stephan Nandrup-Bus and David Magnussen in 4898. .. |
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