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    Posted: 05 September 2012 at 22:42
I am happy to tell you that I have raced with my boat for the first time in my life.

The race took place in Egersund in Norway where Emilia currently is moored and the race was arranged by Egersund Seilforening. The race was part of a series of "Wednesday Regattas" of which I will be able only to participate in one.

As the weather gave strong winds today the regatta was held in the harbour and therefore was a round-the-cans-race and I estimate it to be around 10 M. Emilia was the second boat to cross the finish line (after a Bavaria 45), which gave her a third position after correction.

I was doing it single-handed without the four paws I am used to as Stampe (the ship's dog) weighs one kilogram to much to fly on a plane with me.

Needless to say, it was great fun!

Johan

PS. The winning boat is a Hanse 320, by the way.


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A couple of pictures from the race taken by my friend Magda Styrnik-Jørgensen from the shore. She is usually a fine crew member on the Dufour 34 "Bua" who also took part in the race. Bua is the boat I really wanted to compete with as I crewed on her during a race across the North Sea in 2008.

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The starting line


Some might say that a winning concept is to concentrate on the sailing and not wave to the audience


Having rounded second can for the first time


Emilia and the Bavaria 45 "Enjoy"

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The winning boat, the Hanse 320 "Evelina", on the port side of Emilia.

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Hi Johan

Great images - thanks for sharing.

You say the winning boat was a Hanse 320. Was this on handicap or did they come first? If they did and they were up against a 45 foot Bavaria, they did extremely well.

I am currently sailing in Croatia and have had a severe denting of any ego I may have had for the last week. We seem to have been passed by everyone. A couple of times by First 45's with 5 or so crew on the rails. Wow they were going like an express train. Seriously we felt like we were standing still in around TWS 15 and AWA 40 degrees.

We have a fixed bladed prop which we will be changing to a Kiwi prop next season and the the boat needs to be Antifouled again. Also our jib is five years old and hopefully this will be replaced as well. We will probably go for a self tacker again but in North radian. Not sure how much difference this will make. The boats with larger headsails seem to have more grunt.

Such is life, a little depressing it has to be said.
Onwards and upwards

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Originally posted by Swanji Swanji wrote:

You say the winning boat was a Hanse 320. Was this on handicap or did they come first?


The 320 won on handicap. I was the second boat to cross the finish line. The picture below shows me making the last few tacks of the race and the Bavaria 45 is not visible because it is on my starboard side. You can see the other boats and the closest boat (to the right in the picture) is a Dufour 34.

Johan



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Originally posted by Swanji Swanji wrote:

We seem to have been passed by everyone.


Here is a summary of the miles I have put under the keel so far in my life:

I have sailed faster than bigger boats many times.

I have sailed faster than smaller boats many times.

I have sailed slower than bigger boats many times.

I have also sailed slower than smaller boats many times.

Johan

Edited by Johan Hackman - 06 September 2012 at 07:56

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Johan
How did you get on with the chute up. Could you still hold your own OK then or is that where you pulled away?!
I think you should not have come third as this puts on too much pressure to come second next time.
Be very careful because once the racing bug gets you you will be hooked for good. It is just as well your daughter was not on board because if she got hooked you could end up bankrupt

Edited by samuel - 06 September 2012 at 08:43
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best regards

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Hi Johan,
it looks like that you had retired from the race!!Wacko
The reason, why I am writing this is, that your Flag was still rised up during the Race!? normally, you rise your fla in a Race, when you'll retire!!

Enjoy
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Originally posted by samuel samuel wrote:

How did you get on with the chute up.


This was a race when no one hoisted their downwind sails. The wind was too strong and gusty for that. It can also be seen in the pictures above that most boats choose to reef their mains. I however choose not to do that in order to have more trimming possibilities at hand in the gusty wind.

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