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We never saw Bard on the course, but I understood that he was up with Geert - is there an error in the results here?

Credits to Bard and Lonneke, Bard and Lonneke finished about one minute in front of us. So An error in the results.

It was quite a lot of fun , good wind and almost no waves, so good for some decent speed!

Good to see Paul and Ann coming over. They didn't get much time to relax as being cought in a big traffic Jam. It happened that al lot of sailors had the same problem and the committee decided to delay the start with half an hour. Guess that saved quite a lot of people.

The start could be better, try'd to squeeze in at the committee boat, but for some reason they didn't let me in there. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />, so had to tack away just before the start. A minute too late over the line but at least clean air for a while. That did help. At one time I saw Paul, but he probably got more covered than i was. Halfway caught a glimpse of Wouter, you can't miss his yellow boat. When we were at the halfway mark the gap was closed a bit, Wouter capsized and Bard was in sight, so we knew what we had to do. Had to push it the bit but we where a tiny bit faster. After a while we just passed Bard and at the same time stuffed the bow quite hard. Karin made a nice flight, passing the forestay and landing gently on the snuffer entrance <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />. Were lucky and saved it from a capsize, Karin just came aboard from the leeside and we could continue. Bard was still in reach so.. The story continued, got close again, and stuffed it again, but not that severe this time. Decided to ease it little a bit, no more trap wiring from the back of the boat for the last part of the race.

The only problem was that we couldn't use the spi. Am used to relax downwind and just steer my way down, but now even the skipper has to work and play the mainsheet. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Still a nice race.

Geert