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It was a lovely, warm evening with a light and fitful NW
breeze
as 26 W's - many of them guests for the DM starting the next morning -
set a club race record for FAS. Despite our beautiful boat and sails
and
crew, and a fine start, Anders and I had our troubles as we seemed to
be
very slow off the wind with boats passing us on both sides. A weed
check
produced no weeds (rats!) so we could only hope that others were
getting
better wind! On the third leg broad reach, Al decided to haul out the
camera
and got several nice shots of ...
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... Steen Schubert and Keld
Forchhammer
who had just passed us in their lovely new Abbott Mark III.
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In the setting sun, it was a
lovely spinnaker
run back to the club from the finish line. Fortunately we had finished
well behind these boats and were perfectly positioned to use the
(extreme)
zoom ...
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... for these nicely ...
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... backlit shots of
Søren Jensen
(10212) and Steen Madsen.
I just now notice the boat still
sailing
upwind. I guess our finish could have been worse!
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Steen and Keld once more.
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A Trapez dinghy - some of my
crew Anders'
cronies - on the left, while race winner, Anders Friis' blue spinnaker
is just visible off the bow of W239 Woodie where Poul Ammentorp
is enjoying the quiet sail back while Irene is either talking on the
cell
phone or lighting up like Anders and me.
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(left to right) Anders
Friis (222),
Steen Madsen behind Poul Ammentorp's mainsail, and Joel Bøgh
who is now sailing his crew, Jon
Kjartansson's
beautiful Porter-built woodie, 8278.
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"Just one more shot, " said Al
to Anders,
"This is too good to miss!"
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"No, wait a minute! Here's an
even better
angle!"
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"One more for luck!"
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"Hang onto that cigarette just
a few
seconds longer, Anders, there's a shot here that Bill Abbott will love!"
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More of the evening's race
fleet heads
in for their refreshments.
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"Would you take the tiller just
once
more, Anders? I want to try the digital camera in something a bit more
extreme."
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Meanwhile, DM Protest Committee
Chairman,
Henrik Rasmussen, had his digital out to greet the returning
fleet.
Anders Friis (left) leads the parade while Al and Anders
Pjetursson
in 9355 Whistle are (possibly) that little speck of blue and
white
behind the tree branch. How depressing! Remember the size of this
harbour
when I tell you (now or later) that in 10 knots of wind from a similar
direction, we tested Anders' legendary spinnaker dousing speed by
spinnakering
into the harbour at hull speed and starting our douse just off inner
dock
on the right. Anders is fast! While he got the last of the spi
tucked
away, Uncle Al backed the main and we stopped just a few cm. from the
dock
where our support team (Aida) was there to grab the forestay. On the
Sunday,
still high from our great race with Anders Friis, we went one
better.
We spinnakered into the harbour on starboard and gybed about where the
rowboat is in the photo above, flew the spi without its pole on port
until
we were almost into the weeds half-way between the inner dock and the
ramp.
Anders did another 2-second douse, and we luffed up smartly, and only
had
to be fended off slightly. Harbours like this are really fun!!
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Aha! That was us on the
far right!
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The new Jyske Bro (centre) gets
a workout.
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For some, a buoyancy test stood
between
them and a beer. If you've ever done a buoyancy test, you'll probably
recognize
that "oopsy" feeling as you sit back to rest your tushie on a topside
that
is angled more downward than you'd expect. I remember myself a few
times
in poses very similar to that assumed above by the master of Perlen!!
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