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Henrik with his wide angle lens at water level and a camera that is obviously water-proof. .. |
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No photos from race 4 in which I seem to recall Anders and Sune coming from behind to win once more in a fairly close finish over Poul Ammentorp and Mogens Just. With the winds dying near the finish, it turned into a very close battle among half a dozen boats over the next few spots. That master of the light airs, Joel Bøgh edged out Søren Jensen and Per Larsen for 4th place. Also overlapped with these three on the finish line was Stephan Nandrup-Bus but he managed to hit the committee boat and had to do a 360 which allowed Uncle Al and Anders to complete an amazing come-back in 7th place after being almost last around the first mark. Stephan crossed in 8th place ahead of Bo Christensen who turned in his best finish of the series, and Christian Bovet who again took 10th. |
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Race 5
took forever to get
underway
as there were a number of General Recalls. In this
race, Uncle Al
finally
learned his lesson and was determined to go left from
a pin end start.
Sadly, Al could not find the gas pedal upwind in this
race and had to
rely
on Anders P. to power a nice come-back into the top 10
- only to
discover
that he had been over early along with Stephan
Nandrup-Bus. Meanwhile
the
man who really didn't need it, had one of those races
where everything
seemed to fall into place. Anders Friis started in
Uncle Al's backwind
and tacked away early winds of 5-8 m/sec. He crossed
the fleet and was
never seen again as he seemed to get his own slant of
stronger breeze
across
the middle of the course. Another decisive factor may
have been that
while
people like Uncle Al were used to relying on a
mainsail leech telltale
to fine tune the mainsheet tension upwind and that
telltale was often
stuck
to the sail in the heavy rain, Anders doesn't use one
and was less
"upset"
by the rain.
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with Per Christoffersen (4633) and Christian Bovet (5128) in hot - but wet - pursuit. .. |
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Henrik
gives us another very
interesting
low angle view as Christian Bovet and W-nyt
editor, Lone Holm
Hansen,
complete a textbook rounding while Per (4633) has
done too much sail
trimming
too soon. Since one should never overtrim one's
sails, Per would be
better
off to luff up at the mark and then trim his sails
if it comes down to
choosing to do one or the other first. By luffing up
right around the
mark,
and then trimming his sails to match, he not only
doesn't end up
slowing
down as much, but he also ends up further to
windward!
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Seconds
later: Look how much
Christian
(5128) has gained on Per (4633)!! To be fair the
wide-angle view has no
doubt distorted the distances somewhat, but it seems
pretty clear that
Jacob Knudsen in 1130, who rounded some distance
behind Per, is now
ahead
of him. This is my favourite of Henrik's low angle
shots: It's perfect
for those days when someone is not impressed when he
hears that you
sail
on Furesøen, a small inland lake!!
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... Leif
Jensen (8420) and Bo
Christensen
(2042) in close pursuit. Another example of Stuart
Walker's advice:
"Slow
down and win!" If Bo (2042) had slowed down
(centreboard down early,
etc.)
so as to round just astern of Leif (8420) instead of
outside of him, he
would have ended up with relatively clear air
instead of ...
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as the next group of downwind boats prepare to joust for position around the leeward mark. .. |
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- "miles" ahead of everyone else. .. |
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and they have a huge lead in the race to the free beer! .. |
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it was Søren Jensen with Annette Hansen (left) taking 3rd... |
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and enjoys the thought of having placed ahead of his "far", Poul (239)... .. |
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6th place went to Steen and Carina Madsen (pink spi behind raindrop)... .. |
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only to discover that they - like Uncle Al - had been disqualified for starting a touch too soon. .. |
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This left
Steen Schubert and
Keld Forchhammer
(10249, far right) in 7th just ahead of the ladies,
Elisabeth Geday and
Ulla Riber (third from left) whose 8th was their best
result of the
series.
Uncle Al (4th from left) was OCS as mentioned while Bo
Christensen and
Thomas Anderson also shone in the rain with their
series-best 8th
place.
Completing the top 10 were Joel Bøgh with Jon
Kjartansson (9th)
and Flemming Nielsen with Henrik Frengler in 10th just
ahead of the
British
team of Paul and Andrew Knowlson who also got their
best placing in
this
rainy race.
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