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A great start for Elisabeth
Geday and
Ulla Riber (6301) and for Paul and Andrew Knowlson (9116) at the
pin end while Søren and Lise in 4123 look pretty good, too.
Unfortunately
for them, this was a General Recall - note evidence of some boats over
early at the boat end, one in particular!
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In the second try, the wind has
oscillated
towards the right and the boat end is favoured by quite a bit. Uncle Al
was off to a decent start right at the boat end - but not as good as
Ton
Jaspers and Giel Bloks (4917) and another boat who were just off our
bow.
Elisabeth and Ulla (6301) show that their great start in the first try
was not just luck...
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... as they have moved out in
front only
seconds later. Uncle Al has started to catch Ton (4917) while Poul
Ammentorp
(239), Flemming Nielsen (5797) and Mogens Just (4546) are all working
hard
to keep/get clear air. Closer to the pin end, Per Christoffersen and
Joakim
Gundel in 4633 are behind with the wind having oscillated to the right,
but when the wind swings back to the left...
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... they (left) are suddenly in
much
better shape!!! Still not having learned his lesson about going left,
Uncle Al has tacked to port on the
header
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... and will again round the
topmærke
well back in the fleet. Poul (239) is looking better in this picture as
the boats to windward have tacked away, and he seems to be outpointing
6301.
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What a beautiful, exciting
sight! Jørgen
Øllgaard and Anders Rytter have 5250 moving nicely and may soon
take Mikael's (5559) wind unless the latter bears away for extra speed
and separation from 5250. This is no time for Mikael to pinch!!
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By the time we reached the
windward mark
in mid-fleet after going middle right, it was difficult
to tell who was where up ahead - except
that
Anders Friis was once again out in front!
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As we (9355) neared the end of
the run,
the only good news was that we were ahead of Steen Madsen (9067)
and even with Søren Jonasen
(4123)
who had almost won the first race.
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Here, Jonas is entitled to room
at the
mark, but only enough room to make a "seamanlike" (close and close to
the
mark)
as opposed to a "tactical" (wide and
close)
rounding. Jonas, in fact, overdid the close and close bit and hit the
mark.
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20 seconds later, Jonas still
shows no
signs of doing his 360 for hitting the mark, and even the always calm
and
smiling Anders is beginning to sound peeved as he urges Jonas to get
off
our wind and bloody well hurry up (its Danish equivalent, actually) and
do his turn. Jonas explained that he was looking for a suitable spot. A
protest would doubtless have found that the turn could have been done
much
sooner than Jonas did it. In this position, nothing is keeping Jonas
from
starting his 360 by tacking, or, if he wants to go off to leeward to do
the turn, he could/should luff his sails, wait for Al to go by, and
then
bear away and do his turn. (Al's note: I just noticed something I
had
almost forgotten: if you look closely at the bow of our boat, you will
see something sticking out and up at deck level that looks more like a
sex toy than a spinnaker sheet catcher??? Jesper claims it came from a
skipping rope - a likely story!!!)
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Stephan (4898) rounds onto beat
#2 just
nicely clear of Joel Bøgh (just off his transom) who in turn is
just ahead of Paul Knowlson (9116). You would swear that Mogens Just
(4645)
has the inside overlap on Joel but the zoom lens is deceiving...
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... and Joel rounded ahead of
Mogens
who has wisely decided to go for speed by footing off to leeward where
he already has clear air. Crossing both of them is Flemming Nielsen
with
Henrik Frengler in 5797  i.
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Notice how the winds have
picked up a
bit. Both Flemming (5797) and the two Madsen leprechauns (little people
in Ireland), Steen and Carina, are showing excellent upwind form with
the
rudder angle indicating no sign of heel-induced weather helm. In the
background
(left), we see Anders' father, John Friis, and Mary Jakobsen taking the
relaxing way down the run in 3264, while on the far right in the
distance
we have the three Europes practising again.
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Jacob Knudsen and Peter
Kirkegaard sail
1130 Perlen into a rain shower
which has already obscured the numbers
of
the other three boats.
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get pictures
of the boats finishing which would have shown Anders and Sune winning
again
but not without a challenge from Steen Schubert and Keld Forchhammer
who
completed an outstanding race in their Mark III in anden plads. Poul
and
Irene Ammentorp also moved into medal contention with a 3rd ahead of
Per
Larsen and Poul's son, Steen. Another fine 5th for Søren Jensen
and Annette Hansen while Flemming Nielsen and Henrik Frengler scored a
very well sailed 6th. Following Flemming were Mogens Just (7th),
Søren
Jonasen (8th) and Stephan Nandrup-Bus with his second straight 9th.
Completing
the top ten was Steen Madsen who edged out club mate, Joel Bøgh,
and Uncle Al who had his worst finish of the series with a 12th after
again
failing to find the favoured areas of the second beat. Next came Jacob
Knudsen who edged out the UK helm Paul Knowlson, and Hellerup's Bo
Christensen.
Best races: Outside of three
boats
already mentioned from the top 15 above (Steen Schubert, Per Larsen,
Flemming
Nielsen), no one else had their best finish of the series in this race.
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