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29 September 2024


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TILLYKKE SKOVSER !!!
CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !!
CONGRATULATIONS FreyjaUSA !

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Slightly more than a hundred SOLers made it to start in Reykjavik for our penultimate race of our High Latitudes Series - the Round Greenland. As yet, as far this editor knows, never circum-sailed IRL, but by the time this race closed, 61 SOLers had achieved this fairly remarkable feat virtually - it's 'very close drift ice' all the way north of 80 degrees, and the wind was mostly from the north as well.

So challenging indeed, and also tactically, since both heading north up the Baffin Strait and then back south again down the Greenland Sea back to Reykjavik, competing options presented themselves - to keep east and hug Greenland or west on the way up, and to keep west hugging Greenland again or east well out to sea.

As it turned out it, west and west again proved to be the winning move and Danish veteran SOLer SKOVSER quite nailed it, with two Americans completing the podium, proving once again that Greenland is more Danish than American, as first established by the recovery of the records of the 1906 'Denmark Expedition' by Mikkelsen and Iversen in 1912.

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