KDY Sharks repeat as Danish Sailing League champions
by J/Boats 29 Sep 2020 09:52 BST
KDY Sharks - Danish J/70 Sailing League © Frederik Sivertsen
This past weekend, the Danish J/70 Sailing League shortened-season finale was sailed off Skovshoved with eighteen sailing clubs participating from across Denmark. The fleet was thrilled to have simply amazing weather all weekend long with great sailing on both Saturday and Sunday. In fact, sailing on Saturday was so good that the host Skovshoved Sailing Club regatta PRO managed to run nine complete flights and 27 total races! Apparently, the sailors were getting a little tired towards the end of the day at sunset!
In the end, the winners of the finale and the overall season (just 2 events) were a familiar team standing atop of the podium- the winners were the Royal Danish Yacht Club's KDY Sharks. In the past, the KDY teams would participate as just all women or all men's teams. This last regatta was the first time they sailed as a combined crew, with 2 women and 2 men.
Henrik Jensen, skipper from KDY, commented at the awards, "thank you for a good event, it's great to see how the young people storm forward, women as well, and today our mixed crew, that's the future for KDY sailing!"
In the end, the top five teams in the Danish J/70 Sailing League were Kongelig Dansk YC KDY Sharks in first, Team Roskilde Sejklub second, Frederikshavn Sejklub Seahawks Team third, Kjobenhavns Amateur Sejklub The Boxes team in fourth, and Sonderborg YC Chia Pirates in fifth place.
More Danish J/70 Sailing League information here.