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The
W950
pictures
from the Solent in 1974 are showing, left to right, my
next
youngest son, Kristian; my late wife, Mait; youngest son, Sven Henrik;
and me (Ken Jensen) holding the sheet of the winged genoa; we
didn't
care to use the spinnaker.
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Original Message ----- From: KEN/K.H.Jensen To: Al Uncle Schönborn Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: 1974 PHOTO Dear Al, ... I
hereby
include a
photo taken on the Solent in conn. with the very first 1974 W-WCh.
showing
my late wife (Mait), my two youngest boys and myself. In one
start
amazingly we were the first W. to round the windward mark (cheered by
Ian
and Betty Proctor and Margaret Dye a.o.) because we were going
directly
for that mark, whereas everybody else were following the *good ones*
tacking
towards the shoreline of Hayling Island, expected tidewise to be the
route
to choose. Great fun - didn't last long - except in our
memory.
W950 was acquired from Sweden - intended for my oldest boys. Now in
Denmark's
Museum of Yachting in the castle of Valdemar
Slot built by King
Christian the IV - about 1636 (I think). The place also for the
Elvira
Madigan tragedy.
In
1976 the
four of us
again sailed together in Toronto, and discovered why the SC has the
name
it has as we had to paddle out nearly every morning to the starting
line
in calm, weak winds, hardly detectable due an oily film on the waters
of
Lake Ontario. Here we used W1348's sails (the very first W. to DK in
1966
and
Norway 1971). By then my wife's headaches, due to a later
discovered
brain
tumor, were quite severe at times, but that alone do not explain we
became
the very last W. in the W-WCh-74.
Looking
back I
see an epoch
where probably as the only ones (ever ?) we took part being four aboard
in two World-W-Ch.s!
All
the best to
you and
yours - Ken.  (Al's note: this seems identical to the previous photo - except for the hull colour. Another mystery of the sea...) |
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Finally,
my youngest
son, Sven Henrik, reluctantly putting on his oilskins (9 years and the
youngest participant then, and I believe also at Toronto two years
later).
Behind his hood is W2002, Per Zeuthen and Søren Wiegand from the
Sea Scouts of VEDBÆK, DK, with a backed red genoa. (W2898
was John Mobbs of the U.K.)
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Sid Atkinson (sail 618, a left-over from his first W) hove to. ... |
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but was not among the six Canadian qualifiers for the Worlds. ... |
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Looks
like
a nice
hiking breeze has sprung up: Perfect conditions for North American
champion,
Jeff Jones (helm) and his dad, Dave, of USWA Fleet
#2
(Detroit,
Michigan). I believe Jeff bought W4271 here and brought it home with
him.
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A pretty nervy guy, our Ivar, who obviously took his camera out racing!! ... |
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