1989 preparations

Preparations at VSK - 3

While his new buddy, Jesper Friis, does his usual meticulous post-race clean-up,
Uncle Al searches without success in his "Seal Suit" for a light to his new Danish wind indicator.
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With his precious Danish beer well protected inside the splash rail, Nick White prepares to hoist his flag
as Neil Shawcross looks on admiringly.
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I'm not sure what the significance of the mermaid on the flag was. Lust?
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VP34 I do believe this was the team of Lars Blond (right?) and Søren Haldager who stepped into a W
for the first time and placed 8th of 48 in the Worlds. Not - as they say - too shabby!!!
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Oops! Two negs overlapped - camera mini-malfunction! But still discernible is Adam Dearnley
supervising his dad, Peter, as the latter stows the spinnaker.
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Dave Connor (and presumably Scott Martin) work on finding the goddamn'd hole (so to speak)
so that they can put the freshly checked centreboard back in.
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Adam and Peter Dearnley still hard at work. And as I recall, the showers were
conveniently located in the building on the right side of this photo.
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Colin Boulton, Brian McCleery, Keith Boulton, Bill Fyfe and Mike Codd at work or play
with home for many of us, the freshly arrived "caravans", in the background.
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George Blanchard (l) supervises as a W is prepared for centreboard removal.
At transom: Neel Johansen, W 2042, SWS Measurer; at port side: Finn Brøgger Jensen
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You can tell by the way Bryan Sims is dressed, that this was taken
before the Worlds and winter arrived simultaneously!
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The gang from Ho Bugt SK continue their inspection of what's new.
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Uncle Al (SHADES shirt) and Tom Wharton unpack
one of the last suits of Wayfarer sails made by Richard Storer before he returned to England.
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Kevan Gibb: ace crew both on and off the water!
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Busy times in the boat park.
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(l to r) Jesper and Joel Bøgh, Jesper Friis, Tom Wharton and Poul Ammentorp check Pi (W5121).
Doesn't Poul look naked without his instrument (so to speak!)?

contents:
brief overview   results Uncle Al's view..
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photos:
preparations at VSK - 1   preparations at VSK - 2   preparations at VSK - 3   preparations at VSK - 4
the dinghy park - 1   the dinghy park - 2   the dinghy park - 3    in the clubhouse
practice - 1   practice - 2   abandoned race #1    race #1    race #3   race #4
added 100501: misc. great action shots scanned in from the Jan 1990 W-nyt
awards banquet - 1   awards banquet - 2   awards banquet - 3   awards banquet - 4
vores nye danske venner - 1   nye danske venner - 1a    nye danske venner - 2    nye danske venner - 3