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Doesn't this make
Furesøen look
like the open ocean on a windy day.
Henrik with his wide angle lens at
water
level and a camera that is obviously water-proof.
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The only thing worse than
having to race
in rain all day was being on the Committee where you didn't even have
the
excitement of the racing to take your mind off the rain. A fine day -
for
ducks, as they say.
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Do you think Farum Kommune
would pay
good money to use this shot to lure tourists to Furesøen??!!
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seem to
recall Anders and Sune coming from behind to win once more in a fairly
close finish over Poul Ammentorp and Mogens Just. With the winds dying
near the finish, it turned into a very close battle among half a dozen
boats over the next few spots. That master of the light airs, Joel
Bøgh
edged out Søren Jensen and Per Larsen for 4th place. Also
overlapped
with these three on the finish line was Stephan Nandrup-Bus but he
managed
to hit the committee boat and had to do a 360 which allowed Uncle Al
and
Anders to complete an amazing come-back in 7th place after being almost
last around the first mark. Stephan crossed in 8th place ahead of Bo
Christensen
who turned in his best finish of the series, and Christian Bovet who
again
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Best races: Other crews
making this
race their best of the series were
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Ib Lykke with Per Zeuthen in 13th
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John Friis and Mary Jakobsen in 15th
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the Dutch crew of Ton Jaspers and
Giel Bloks
who were 16th
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Kim Petersen and Helene Madsen in
21st
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Race 5 took forever to get
underway
as there were a number of General Recalls. In this race, Uncle Al
finally
learned his lesson and was determined to go left from a pin end start.
Sadly, Al could not find the gas pedal upwind in this race and had to
rely
on Anders P. to power a nice come-back into the top 10 - only to
discover
that he had been over early along with Stephan Nandrup-Bus. Meanwhile
the
man who really didn't need it, had one of those races where everything
seemed to fall into place. Anders Friis started in Uncle Al's backwind
and tacked away early winds of 5-8 m/sec. He crossed the fleet and was
never seen again as he seemed to get his own slant of stronger breeze
across
the middle of the course. Another decisive factor may have been that
while
people like Uncle Al were used to relying on a mainsail leech telltale
to fine tune the mainsheet tension upwind and that telltale was often
stuck
to the sail in the heavy rain, Anders doesn't use one and was less
"upset"
by the rain.
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Here they come out of the rain
down the
first run was Anders and Sune (blue spi, far left) already well ahead.
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The rescue boat is on duty as
the fleet
comes closer.
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A lonely rounding...
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... onto the second beat...
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... for Anders and Sune. Note
the flawless
upwind form!! A photo worth studying.
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Mogens Just rounds a
comfortable second
ahead of...
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... Per Larsen (9733) and
Søren
Jensen (10212). Note the raindrops on the lens.
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Not far behind are Stephan
Nandrup-Bus
(left), Poul Ammentorp (red spi, centre) and Joel Bøgh (right).
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Stephan (4898) reaches the
leeward mark
in 5th but will have to give room to Poul (239).
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Steen Madsen (pink spi)
prepares to round
9th behind (l to r) Uncle Al (very wet without his waterproof
red
jacket), Joel and Stephan. No one wants to tack too soon after rounding
because so many running boats are disturbing the wind and water.
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After a 4th-race OCS (over
early), Elisabeth
Geday and Ulla Riber have 6301 in 10th place, just behind Steen and
Carina.
Uncle Al meanwhile, has tacked to clear his air and hopes that he will
hit a nice gap in the fleet coming down the run.
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Steen Schubert has his new
Abbott Mk
III (10249) in 11th place as he gets ready to round. Joel has also
tacked
to starboard (left) while Uncle Al, his crew, Anders and W9355 Whistle
have been swallowed up by a giant raindrop.
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Flemming Nielsen about to round
just
ahead of the UKWA entry, Paul Knowlson,
with Per Christoffersen (4633) and
Christian
Bovet (5128) in hot - but wet - pursuit.
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Henrik gives us another very
interesting
low angle view as Christian Bovet and W-nyt editor, Lone Holm
Hansen,
complete a textbook rounding while Per (4633) has done too much sail
trimming
too soon. Since one should never overtrim one's sails, Per would be
better
off to luff up at the mark and then trim his sails if it comes down to
choosing to do one or the other first. By luffing up right around the
mark,
and then trimming his sails to match, he not only doesn't end up
slowing
down as much, but he also ends up further to windward!
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Seconds later: Look how much
Christian
(5128) has gained on Per (4633)!! To be fair the wide-angle view has no
doubt distorted the distances somewhat, but it seems pretty clear that
Jacob Knudsen in 1130, who rounded some distance behind Per, is now
ahead
of him. This is my favourite of Henrik's low angle shots: It's perfect
for those days when someone is not impressed when he hears that you
sail
on Furesøen, a small inland lake!!
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Even the raindrops are big on
Furesøen!!
"Rain - heavy at times" is a weather forecast we often hear in Canada
and
it's appropriate here. The rain really began to pour down as Jacob
(1130)
rounded nicely, with ...
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... Leif Jensen (8420) and Bo
Christensen
(2042) in close pursuit. Another example of Stuart Walker's advice:
"Slow
down and win!" If Bo (2042) had slowed down (centreboard down early,
etc.)
so as to round just astern of Leif (8420) instead of outside of him, he
would have ended up with relatively clear air instead of ...
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... being blanketed and falling
behind
Thomas Raun-Petersen (6617).
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A few moments later, Thomas is
about
to make life even worse for Bo by taking his wind,
as the next group of downwind boats
prepare
to joust for position around the leeward mark.
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Not all that much later, Anders
Friis
and Sune Sigsgaard pilot Wassail across the short finish line
- "miles" ahead of everyone else.
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A big smile on the winners'
faces: this
victory virtually assured Anders and Sune of the Danish Wayfarer title
and they have a huge lead in the
race
to the free beer!
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The parade to the beer
continues: After
Mogens Just with Helle Emsvang in "anden plads"
it was Søren Jensen with Annette
Hansen
(left)
taking 3rd...
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... ahead of Per Larsen and
Steen Ammentorp
(9733).
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Perhaps Steen in 9733 is
thinking about
wet T-shirts along with the free beer as he douses the spi,
and enjoys the thought of having placed
ahead
of his "far", Poul (239)...
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... who nonetheless completed a
fine
- if wet - Saturday with a satisfying 2-5.
6th place went to Steen and Carina
Madsen
(pink spi behind raindrop)...
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... ahead of Stephan
Nandrup-Bus with
David Magnussen who thought they had their best finish of the series
only to discover that they - like Uncle
Al
- had been disqualified for starting a touch too soon.
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This left Steen Schubert and
Keld Forchhammer
(10249, far right) in 7th just ahead of the ladies, Elisabeth Geday and
Ulla Riber (third from left) whose 8th was their best result of the
series.
Uncle Al (4th from left) was OCS as mentioned while Bo Christensen and
Thomas Anderson also shone in the rain with their series-best 8th
place.
Completing the top 10 were Joel Bøgh with Jon Kjartansson (9th)
and Flemming Nielsen with Henrik Frengler in 10th just ahead of the
British
team of Paul and Andrew Knowlson who also got their best placing in
this
rainy race.
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Best races: Other crews
making this
race their best of the series were
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Leif Jensen and Bo Ejstrup who had
easily their
finest race with an impressive 14th
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Thomas Raun-Petersen with Leila
Jensen in 16th
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Ole and Lennard Højlund who
placed 22nd
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