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24 January 2025


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ONNITTELUT StIngFI !!!
CONGRATULATIONS Patrick70119 !! FELICITATIONS KaSToR !

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A great big blast of wind from Hell at c 4720m AMSL (in this case above the Bay of Bengal, presumably) welcomed our fleet of 94 virtual DNs to the Heavenly Lake for the start of our first Ice Race of 2025 and a beat straight into the teeth of it. With pressure and angle varying subtly and contrarily to one another across the course to the weather beacon near the hamlet (or summer pasture?) of Lanquedac, and with our DNs able to tack at will on a proverbial sixpence (or blessed golden coin?) , there were seconds to be gained, no more than that, by getting the tack points just right, as the reports by two of our podium placers under the buttonized Tibetan flags above attest.

Perhaps to no-one's particular surprise it was a SOLer from Finland who skated that first beat best. Years of practice leaning into the wind with his hands behind his back perhaps gave home an edge, but once ahead, two tricky roundings couldn't trip him up and thus StIngFI skated home to complete the 95nm triangle in an elapsed time of 01:56:43 hours, 9 seconds ahead of his nearest pursuer, at an average VMC of c 50kn!

Pour that man a viina, double measure, in fact everyone!

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