(Aarhus, Denmark)- The 2017 season's third league match in the 1st
Division ended last weekend in the spectacular sailing location of
Aarhus. The sailors loved enjoying a sunny summer day, sailing in front
of DOKK1 in Aarhus. The difficult urban sailing conditions throughout
the competition gave the sailors a lot of challenges, and for some,
rather frustrating wind conditions when massive windshifts would roll
across the course and upset the standings!Horsens, Hellerup, KDY and the defending masters from Frederikshavn, were the top four teams in the event. For this quartet, everything came down to the final race to determine the top three! Both KDY and Hellerup scored 6’s on the final day to negatively affect their chances of winning, but not affecting their chances to at least get on the podium. In the end, Horsens young crew scored a 3rd in their last race to secure the win at Aarhus over Frederikshavn by two pts. Never recovering from their 6th score in race 10, KDY had to settle for third place just 2 pts in arrears of the silver.
There were a lot of nerves on the four young Horsens boys (Mikkel Hougaard, Jeppe Bregendahl, Andreas Skjerning and skipper Jakob Nikolajsen), but they kept their heads cool, and secured victory for their club!
"We
were in the groove and we were confident of sailing well. We had good
speed and good tactics, luckily! We knew we had to avoid a bad race.
It’s been funky and exciting racing with the winds jumping all over the
place and up and down in strength. It is great to celebrate our win
with so many people from our club, it was absolutely indescribable,”
said Horsens crew Mikkel Hougaard.Horsens Sejklub has been in the league's 1st division since 2015, but has never been on the podium, nor even near it!
The Frederikshavn Sejklub ended up 2nd, but could rejoice in the fact they had extended their lead for the overall series after their scores at Stuer, Brejning, and Aarhus.
"It was a cool competition, a bold backdrop and close sailing. The sailing conditions were difficult- almost impossible- but at the end of the day we took 2nd. We're happy," said captain Kris Houmann from Frederikshavn.
As a result, after the three events, Frederikshavn has 5 pts, a commanding lead for this series! Sitting in second is KDY with 11 pts, third is Kerteminde Sejklub with 14 pts, fourth is Horsens Sejklub with 18 pts, and fifth place also sitting on 18 pts is Skovshoved Sejklub.
The final and decisive 1st division event will be sailed in Skovshoved from the 15th to 17th September.
Sailing Photo Credits: Camilla Hylleberg Photography
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