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as Søren and Lise Jonasen get ready for theirs. .. |
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Now this
is a photo that Uncle
Al will
always treasure: approaching the leeward mark in
fine form with the
whole
fleet behind Whistle. I imagine Jesper Friis
likes this photo,
too!
Judging by apparent mast heights, you can tell that
Anders Friis (light
blue spi) whose masthead fly is just visible below
Al's top batten is
already
a clear 2nd while it is very close among Søren
Jonasen (4123),
Joel
Bøgh (8278) and Steen Madsen (9067) for 3rd. Poul
Ammentorp
(239)
is lying 6th but ahead of all his closest Silver
Medal competition.
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Note how
Uncle Al in 9355 is
standing
in Whistle so that he can heel the boat to
windward just
enough
to remove any weather helm - the faster the boat
goes, the more
important
this becomes. At the far right, we can see an
apparently frustrated
Søren
Jensen getting into a luffing match.
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This close to the mark, Uncle Al is also starting to protect the inside for the mark rounding. .. |
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As Whistle
rounds onto
the second
beat about 50 m. ahead of Wassail (222), our
plan is basic:
protect
the left side and stay between Anders and the
windward mark as much as
possible. Note how Anders continues to fly the spi
as Sune takes the
time
to stow the pole properly. This can be easily done
to good advantage as
long as the wind is mostly from astern.
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So - who
has right of way here?
Yep -
it's Christian Bovet (5128) who has done a nice gybe
to starboard and
it
looks like Gunnar Petersen (red and white spi) is
about to follow suit
while Stephan Nandrup-Bus (red spi) will hold port,
go behind Christian
and Gunnar, and then try to get inside at the mark.
Since about 10
boats
- including these three - are nearly even in 6th
place and will arrive
at the leeward mark in a big clump, having the
inside position will be
a big help!
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a lot on this run and are right back in the hunt along with Mogens Just (left). .. |
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as the tricky manoeuvering begins - first he'll need to avoid running into Mogens Just off his bow. .. |
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Getting
pretty close to the
mark now.
Looks like Per (white spi) has done a quick gybe to
port while John
(3264)
appears content to go around on the outside - it
wouldn't hurt 3264's
speed
if Mary were to sit a bit further forward. The wooden
boat is Mogens.
Don't
know what happened to Christian - maybe the aliens got
him!
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