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Having awoken to gusts
buffetting
his camper, Uncle Al reconnoitered the conditions, Being hard pressed
to
hold himself and the camera steady in the gusts at the end of the dock,
he decided Practice Races were overrated...
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... and that he and Martha
Friis
could do more good photographing...
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... and videoing the
action.
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Not so Henrik
Koch and Søren Jespersen...
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... who headed out out for
a "little
run" in W1967.
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A little upwind work
into...
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... the far corner of the
outer
harbour sets them up for a ...
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... spinnaker ...
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... run ...
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... past the admiring
spectators.
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So far ...
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... so good!
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Just after exiting the
harbour,
the lads doused the chute, took off on a wild planing reach which ended
when a one of the frequent gusts of 40+ knots gave them a chance to
swim
in the Baltic Sea.
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After righting and bailing
the boat,
they returned - exhilarated!
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