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The Coach, Jesper Graves
Petersen (right),
arrived the night before which of course necessitated a late Thursday
night
reunion celebration. Jesper's son, Christian, is even going to brush
his
teeth before the daily breakfast at FAS which comes as part of the
entry
fee or being a DM volunteer. Christian has volunteered to take sailing
pictures with the CWA digital camera insofar as his duties on the pin
end
boat permit. At least two of the three of us look pretty fresh
considering
the hangovers, and we are putting on a brave face in light of the skies
and the forecast which indicate rain off and on all day.
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My great crew, Anders
Pjetursson - obviously
ready for the DM.
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Just before breakfast, the
skies opened
up but registration (above left) and other preparations
continued without a hitch. Stephan
Nandrup-Bus
has obviously come prepared: note the chic umbrella!
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The "Coach" does the obligatory
check
of the Regatta Notice Board for us while in the background,
the Regatta Chairman is resplendent -
but
not looking very happy - in his new Tilley hat!
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Good news: The rain has stopped
while
we were having breakfast. What you see is what we got pretty well all
day.
We are facing pretty well north here and our race course was a
trapezoid
more or less in the area east of a line between the end of the dock and
the point a couple of kilometres behind it. Someone has already
launched!
What keen-ness!
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Although the cavalier attitude
of Team
Fogh/Bjerregaard about registering 6 weeks past the deadline annoyed my
host, Jesper finally relented and once the buoyancy test was
successfully
completed under the eagle eyes of the Coach and Neel Johansen (holding
mast above), our record DM entry reached 36!! This kind of rainy day
activity
is best watched rather than participated in - preferably while having a
coffee and a smoke in the shelter of the tent on the club deck - which
Anders and I did.
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With the first of possibly
three races
scheduled for 1100 hrs...
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... the launch area starts to
get busy
just before the Skippers' Meeting.
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A pretty cheerful looking group
considering
the weather and the forecast!
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The Skippers' Meeting: Regatta
Chairman,
Jesper Friis, welcomes the sailors the 2002 DM
and prepares to introduce our fine PRO
(Principal
Race Officer), Søren Kristensen.
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A pretty serious looking ...
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... and attentive group. And so
good
looking!! Note the marks ready to go out, also.
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You can tell that the Coach
(right) looks
a bit less tense than the rest of us whose first racing is less than an
hour away!
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This restaurant offers more
than just
good food and drink. Mogens Just adds the forgotten masthead fly
that usually requires lowering and
raising
the mast one more time.
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A study in concentration and
pre-race
excitement: Anders Friis (middle) and Anders Pjetursson (right).
And I believe that's the Tumle
team
of Kim Petersen and Helene Madsen behind them.
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Stephan Nandrup-Bus asks a
question -
in dansk, of course - as were the rest of the proceedings that morning
naturally:
the perfect excuse for Uncle Al not to
listen
at the Skippers' Meeting - even better than his usual which is John
Weakley's
assurance that oral statements made at the Skippers' Meeting have
absolutely
no standing as Sailing Instructions. And speaking of SI's, I had the
perfect
excuse not to really study them since my interpreter, Anders, was doing
that!!
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Serious, even tense faces,
everywhere
you looked. Shameless promotion for a certain Accounting giant
being carried by one of their
employees,
Søren Jensen (W10212).
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The White Knights? Steen
Anthonsen (front
left), longtime crew for W1741 Jørgen Vekslund, and of course,
the
Coach for W9355 and W239, Jesper Graves Petersen (front right). Showing
great concentration in the background are the skipper of W5250
Jørgen
Øllgaard (left) and on the right is Bo Christensen's crew,
Thomas
Andersson.
Poul's note: Jørgen and his
crew,
Anders Rytter, are from the Gymnastic Highscool "OURE" on Fyn, where
they
also teach in sailing, specially match racing! (I'm only 95% sure about
the last!)
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As the meeting ends and we're
sent off
to sail, someone prepares to do a last wind direction check (right)
while Keld Forchhammer (beard) prepares
to
sail the first Abbott Mark III ever to race in the DM.
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