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Anders Friis and Bettina...
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... his lovely...
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... "main squeeze".
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The Pied Piper(s) of Farum lead
us ...
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... around ...
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... around the club ...
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... and ...
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... upstairs ...
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... to dinner.
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We were not kept...
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... long before a marvellous
buffet dinner
was put before us and Uncle Al for one was too busy feeding his face to
take pictures. By the way, the young man in the yellow shirt is Thomas
Raun-Petersen, the face behind Wayfarer Trading, Denmark's #1 source
for
Wayfarer parts and accessories.
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Our first after-dinner speaker,
Arne
Stahlfest, who by popular request read his masterpiece about the
"Importance
of Politeness to Female Crew". Last time I heard this, it was in
English
by Poul Ammentorp at the Worlds 95 awards banquet. I did not understand
the Danish all that well but recognized my favourite part where I think
the Danish, original version would be hard pressed to match the Uncle
Al/Poul
translation into English which reads as follows:
The following is not polite and can
therefore
not be recommended: "Get the fucking jib in!!!"
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And no Danish regatta dinner
would be
complete without the Wayfarer Stompers leading us in song -
sheets
with the words provided! Some faces there we didn't see in the Jazz
Festival
act earlier: John Friis on the clarinette and Jesper Friis (not
related)
on the tin whistle. The last time we were up in this restaurant (in
1991)
at a DM, Jesper was teaching Frank Goulay how to drink beer through one
of these tin whistles!
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What a marvellous group of
musicians
and entertainers!
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And what Danish W song evening
would
be complete without the gesture-laden ballad about an Esbjerg sailor
named
Lass who sailed off from Esbjerg to the island of Fanø in an old
wreck of a boat, went down in a storm, and now waits at the bottom of
the
sea, ready to greet any new arrivals with a glass of "kaffepunsch"
(Irish/Greenland/Danish?
coffee or some kind of coffee/booze combination).
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John Friis, father of Anders...
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... and master of the
clarinette.
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Jesper Friis, our
multi-talented regatta
chairman.
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Steen Anthonsen looks on as his
"significant
other" and sometimes crew ...
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Kiss gets a detailed
explanation of something
from our Coach, Jesper Graves Petersen.
What do you suppose he was
comparing?????
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This picture must have been
taken before
dinner
since the table in front of my
wonderful
crew, Anders (centre), is still clean!
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After the singing was done,
Poul Ammentorp
and the Coach took me back over to the Jazz Festival to hear one of
Denmark's
finest jazz groups. They were very good - unlike Uncle Al's attempt at
capturing them on film.
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