Our first after-dinner speaker, Arne Stahlfest, who by popular request read his masterpiece about the "Importance of Politeness to Female Crew". Last time I heard this, it was in English by Poul Ammentorp at the Worlds 95 awards banquet. I did not understand the Danish all that well but recognized my favourite part where I think the Danish, original version would be hard pressed to match the Uncle Al/Poul translation into English which reads as follows: The following is not polite and can therefore not be recommended: "Get the fucking jib in!!!"

And no Danish regatta dinner would be complete without the Wayfarer Stompers leading us in song - sheets with the words provided! Some faces there we didn't see in the Jazz Festival act earlier: John Friis on the clarinette and Jesper Friis (not related) on the tin whistle. The last time we were up in this restaurant (in 1991) at a DM, Jesper was teaching Frank Goulay how to drink beer through one of these tin whistles!

And what Danish W song evening would be complete without the gesture-laden ballad about an Esbjerg sailor named Lass who sailed off from Esbjerg to the island of Fanø in an old wreck of a boat, went down in a storm, and now waits at the bottom of the sea, ready to greet any new arrivals with a glass of "kaffepunsch" (Irish/Greenland/Danish? coffee or some kind of coffee/booze combination).