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The beginning of the end: Sten Mohr (red chute) heads up to take Bertrand Pacé’s transom, who has a

Four days after the completion of the Toscana Elba Cup it was on to Match Race Germany on Lake Constance in southwest Germany. The venue takes a beating as a non-windy venue, but here’s proof that there is wind. Blustery wind even, especially when it’s out of the northeast as it was on the first day of the event last May.

Bertrand Pacé led Sten Mohr in a round robin race, but had a problem: a small tear in his black spinnaker just above the clew patch. The tear soon became a gaping hole when it ripped up a seam to the horizontal panels of the sail in a puff. But Pacé and crew were able to live with the problem when Mohr broached in the same puff while trying to get to windward of Pacé.

As Sten Mohr (red chute) takes Bertrand Pacé’s transom a puff hits, sending him into a broach and bl

As Sten Mohr (red chute) takes Bertrand Pacé’s transom a puff hits, sending him into a broach and bl

“We didn’t want to get pinned to leeward so we came up just a little bit,” said Mohr. His maneuver happened to coincide with the puff, and he rounded up.

“When the puff hit I was sitting on the afterguy and it lifted me straight up in the air about six feet off the deck,” said Pacé’s crewmember Eric Doyle. “When the kite blew out I dropped back down to the deck.”

Sten Mohr (red spinnaker) loses control of his boat when a puff hits during his match against Bertra

Sten Mohr (red spinnaker) loses control of his boat when a puff hits during his match against Bertra

(Photos ©Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)

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