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Race #3: The S.W.S. Trophy (Wednesday 29 July, 20ºC, mostly sunny): After a general recall, the fleet got off cleanly in about 6 knots of 145º wind. Ian and Anders (below) continued to look great, rounding and remaining 1-2 throughout the race. 
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Two new faces appeared in the top 5 at the windward mark: Graham Barker of the UK rounded 3rd, a position which he held until the fickle winds of the final beat dropped him to 4th behind Martin Collen who completed another come-back after rounding 8th off the first beat. The young Danish team of Thomas Sennels and Sofie Brems showed why they are considered light-air aces as they rounded 5th behind Gavin Waldron who again looked great. Both crews found grief on the final beat however, as they fell to 12th and 13th respectively. Mike Mac rounded 6th and was also stymied by the fickle winds. When the final beat dropped him from 6th to 9th, Mike’s hopes of a second World title to add to his ’92 victory were practically gone in light of the fact that both Anders and Ian were now well ahead of him.
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Uncle Al in 4123 prepares to round in 14th place off the first beat just ahead of Søren Jensen/Jesper Friis and Mogens Just. Guy Hacon (8686) is totally blanketed by 4123 and is in a generally extremely unenviable position. And then there was poor old Ernst Henriksen (5942) coming across on port. Ernst who is a very good racer who has been Danish champion several times, is discovering in this photo, just how bad his replacement centreboard really is!
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A few moments later, Uncle Al, Søren and Mogens (bow is all that's showing here) round in what seems to be a bit of current if the wake left by the mark is anything to go by. Further ahead, the helms are taking a nicely divergent approach to the first reach.
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Joel Bøgh continued to shine as he moved from 13th to 8th on the final beat and scored his 3rd straight top-ten finish but no one’s last-leg heroics could match Mogens Just who managed to pick his way through the minefield of shifts and dead spots from 21st to 5th! Amazing!! Uncle Al looked to be doing better, having moved from 14th off beat #1 to 8th on beat #2 but the final beat was a mystery to him as he fell to 18th, matching a drop accomplished on beat 2 by Søren who had fallen from 14th to 23rd before ending 26th. After sailing two such fine race on the first day, Poul Ammentorp probably thought he had hit rock bottom when he rounded 35th off beat 1, but he managed to get the wrong parts of beat 2 as well and fell to 44th before recovering 5 boats prior to the finish.

Among the North Americans, George Blanchard sailed a consistent race to end 40th just ahead of Nick who was 50th after once around but gained 10 boats on the 2nd beat before settling for 41th and being cheered by the thought that he and his new knee (operated on), boat (Mixed Nuts), crew (Søren Gøtzsche) and sails (Mike Mac’s) were finally getting into the groove. Also showing distinct improvement were Geoff Edwards and George Waller who moved out of the 50’s with a 48th. Sadly, the Taylor brothers second Worlds came to a premature end after this race: after a mad scramble to get and make ready a fresh, blue borrowed boat, crew, Paul, re-developed sore arms (akin to tennis elbow) that he had experienced at the Ontarios a week and a half before. With poor Mark having to trim all the sheets, the Taylors had dropped to 45th before deciding to pack it in. Paul’s elbows had recovered sufficiently to allow him to add his magnificent guitar work to the Danish Wayfarer Stompers in concert Wednesday night before he and his brother decided to head for the excitement of Hamburg and Amsterdam before their flight home.

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W
HELM
Beat 1
Gybe
Lee
Beat 2
Lee
Finish
7588
Ian Porter
1
1
1
1
1
1
9733
Anders Friis
2
2
2
2
2
2
8888
Graham Barker
3
3
3
3
3
4
1540
Gavin Waldron
4
4
4
4
4
13
8405
Thomas Sennels
5
5
5
10
9
12
8868
Mike McNamara
6
8
6
7
6
9
2006
Joel Bøgh
7
6
7
11
13
8
88
Martin Collen
8
7
8
6
7
3
4123
Al Schönborn
14
13
13
8
10
18
9355
Søren Jensen
15
18
14
23
25
26
4645
Mogens Just
16
14
17
21
21
5
239
Poul Ammentorp
35
36
34
44
43
39
80
George Blanchard
39
37
37
37
40
40
7673
Mark Taylor
43
44
45
RET: crew’s tennis elbow
864
Nick Seraphinoff
49
48
50
40
39
41
9483
Geoff Edwards
50
52
51
50
50
48
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