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Once again, the Danes seemed to get a handle on the up and down tidal situations
with Cirkeline and Sulajma taking a win each, and all the Danes in the top five places.
Thursday dawned with a later start as the neap tide moved forward, with a lovely
sunny morning and very light airs. Out to CB we went, with some of the UK boats
towing the Danes.

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The breeze filled with 10 knots from the South South West making it a pleasant sail to
the starting area. Good square lines were set, and the fleet got away with only one
general recall, then starting under a Z flag for subsequent starts. Once again, our
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Danish visitors took the first five places with Madelaine 6 , Crackerjack 7 , Tak 8 th
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and Mistral 9 . Race 4 and 5 followed a similar results pattern, with the windward
mark being shortened to 0.8 nm from the Committee boat, as the wind lightened. As
a two boat team event, the overall winner of the Sessan Cup was Emma (DEN 634)
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and Cirkeline (DEN 873), 2 Sulajma (DEN729) and Geppeline (DEN926), 3 rd
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Crackerjack (GBR718) and Rio (Den 745), 4 Tak (GBR713) and Bonnie (GBR736) with
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5 place going to Mistral (GBR732) and Beluga (GER1030). A boisterous Prize Giving
supper and disco was held at the Royal Lymington Yacht. Huge thanks again to the
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