Race 6, part 1 photos by Christian Friis

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Sunday turned out to be a lovely day for the final races of the DM. While there was little doubt that Anders Friis and Sune Sigsgaard would be the 2002 Danish champions, everything else remained wide open, and at least five crews still had a very good hope of winning the Silver Medals as can be seen from the table below:   W Helm #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 4 of 5 4645 Mogens Just 6 7 4 3 2 15 points 239 Poul Ammentorp 10 3 6 2 5 16 points 10212 Søren Jensen 5 5 7 5 3 18 points 9733 Per Larsen 8 4 5 6 4 19 points 9067 Steen Madsen 3 10 3 NF 6 22 points

Ib Lykke (r) and Per Zeuthen head out towards the start line... ..

... east of FAS on the south shore of Furesøen. This is an excellent illustration of how a mainsheet bridle moves the transom block closer to the mainsheet block at the end of the boom. ..

Kristian og Helge Larsen ... ..

... looking pretty good going upwind but have too much twist for ideal pointing conditions on such flat water - i.e. they would point considerably better if Kristian pulled in another 15-30 cm of mainsheet! ..

Ulla Riber (6301), Mogens Just (4645) and Flemming Nielsen (5797) cruise back down the start line towards the RC boat end ... ..

... while Søren Jensen (10212) returns from checking out a bit of the first beat. ..

Poul og Irene Ammentorp look upwind to see what might be coming in the next few minutes. ..

Kim Petersen (r) og Helene Madsen in very nice upwind trim. ..

Note the Tumle bow freshly taped after taking a bite out of Wassail. ..

Checking their upwind trim are ... ..

... Jørgen Øllgaard (l) and Anders Rytter. ..

Someone has found the windward mark? ..

Jørgen has an interesting arrangement at the end of his boom: a reverse bridle? ..

Can't you just picture Søren Jensen... ..

... leading a boarding party of hungry Vikings???? ..

Waiting for the start sequence to begin ... ..

... Annette and Søren look admirably relaxed. ..

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Gunnar Kondrup (r) and Per Vilstrup relax before the race. Gunnar did a very nice report on the DM which can be found under Set og Sket on the SWS web site. ..

Leif Trier Jensen (r) and Bo Ejstrup check the angle of the start line.

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