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continued without a hitch. Stephan Nandrup-Bus has obviously come prepared: note the chic umbrella! .. |
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the Regatta Chairman is resplendent - but not looking very happy - in his new Tilley hat! .. |
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Good
news: The rain has stopped
while
we were having breakfast. What you see is what we
got pretty well all
day.
We are facing pretty well north here and our race
course was a
trapezoid
more or less in the area east of a line between the
end of the dock and
the point a couple of kilometres behind it. Someone
has already
launched!
What enthusiasm!
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Although
the cavalier attitude
of Team
Fogh/Bjerregaard about registering 6 weeks past the
deadline annoyed my
host, Jesper finally relented and once the buoyancy
test was
successfully
completed under the eagle eyes of the Coach and Neel
Johansen (holding
mast above), our record DM entry reached 36!! This
kind of rainy day
activity
is best watched rather than participated in -
preferably while having a
coffee and a smoke in the shelter of the tent on the
club deck - which
Anders and I did.
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and prepares to introduce our fine PRO (Principal Race Officer), Søren Kristensen. .. |
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that usually requires lowering and raising the mast one more time. .. |
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And I believe that's the Tumle team of Kim Petersen and Helene Madsen behind them. .. |
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Stephan
Nandrup-Bus asks a
question -
in dansk, of course - as were the rest of the
proceedings that morning
naturally: the perfect excuse for Uncle Al not to
listen
at the Skippers' Meeting - even better than his
usual which is John
Weakley's
assurance that oral statements made at the Skippers'
Meeting have
absolutely
no standing as Sailing Instructions. And speaking of
SI's, I had the
perfect
excuse not to really study them since my
interpreter, Anders, was doing
that!!
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being carried by one of their employees, Søren Jensen (W10212). .. |
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The White
Knights? Steen
Anthonsen (front
left), longtime crew for W1741 Jørgen Vekslund, and
of course,
the
Coach for W9355 and W239, Jesper Graves Petersen
(front right). Showing
great concentration in the background are the
skipper of W5250
Jørgen
Øllgaard (left) and on the right is Bo Christensen's
crew,
Thomas
Andersson.
....Poul's note: Jørgen and his crew, Anders Rytter, are from the Gymnastic Highscool "OURE" on Fyn, where they also teach in sailing, specially match racing! (I'm only 95% sure about the last!) |
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while Keld Forchhammer (beard) prepares to sail the first Abbott Mark III ever to race in the DM. |
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