"Hansa" Wins The Blue Ribbon

"Hansa" Wins The Blue Ribbon
"Hansa" Wins The Blue Ribbon

Video: "Hansa" Wins The Blue Ribbon

Video: "Hansa" Wins The Blue Ribbon
Video: Felicidad (Margherita) 2024, March
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For the 14th time since 1965, a ship from the Hanseatic Yacht School Glücksburg won the Blue Ribbon for the fastest monohull yacht based on the Flensburg Fjord on Saturday.

After 5 hours, 6 minutes and 34 seconds, the X-612 with skipper Jan Meincke at the helm had won the "Flensburger Pilsener Cup" and thus succeeded the "Glücksburg", which was sold two years ago and which the band won eleven times. The "Chrila" was the first to cross the finish line ten minutes earlier. The imposing Swan 56R yacht from Claus Bressler from Hamburg needed 4 hours, 56 minutes and 36 seconds for the 40 nautical mile regatt. After the years 2000 and 2002, she won the blue-yellow ribbon for the fastest foreign yacht for the third time.

Bad luck went to the "Norddeutsche Vermögen Hamburg" as the favorite for this prize. The ultra-light displacement boat with a top speed of up to 23 knots, recently acquired in the US by the Hamburg association Seefahrt, wanted to compete with the competition for the first time in Flensburg. However, it sailed the wrong lane and had to end the race prematurely. The fastest ship according to the calculated time in this race, as on the day before, was this year's German champion sea sailing in the IMS I class Horst Mann with tactician Thomas Jungblut with the "L + M Hispaniola" (Rodmann 42).

With almost optimal weather conditions, sun and southerly winds between 3 and 5 Beaufort, what had started so stormy the previous weekend came to a forgiving end. Last Sunday the race committee of the Flensburg Sailing Club even had to cancel two races due to the weather. On this weekend, however, everything was right: the best conditions had already prevailed on Thursday when the race committee of the Flensburg Sailing Club sent the participants of the "hanseboot Cup" to the Little Belt. And the beautiful late summer weather lasted on Friday too. In south-westerly winds of 4 to 5 Beaufort, the yachts had gone for turning marks on the Flensburg Fjord on the 20 nautical miles long course of the "Transit-Logistic-Cup".

The J-80 sailors were able to complete their first "German Open" just as successfully as the Swan Yachten their 10th "Swan Baltic SeChallenge". The "German Open" of the J-80 won the "Needles and Pins" from Kiel with five first places in five races ahead of the "Blond" from Flensburg and the "Giljaker" from Denmark. The "Swan Baltic SeChallenge" once again won the "Elan" (Swan 48) by Harald Baum from Hamburg.

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