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12 August 2005, 10:16 am

African Queen Takes The Lead

Grand Hôtel Dragon Gold Cup 2005

Sandhamn, Sweden

Competitors at the Grand Hôtel Dragon Gold Cup 2005 were treated to a much nicer day yesterday in Sandhamn, Sweden although if anything, the winds were a bit too light!

Jörgen SCHÖNHERR (DEN) and his crew on African Queen finished race four in third place to take the lead with just two races remaining on Friday and Saturday.

'There was practically no wind at all on the first beat, then the wind shifted on the second beat and we were absolutely on the wrong side,' says Jörgen. 'The first beat was very difficult, the Dragon almost stops at every tack in these light wind so I prefer a little bit more. It was around eight knots, shifting from west to southwest today.'

The German Team of Roberto, Ocker, Grosser and Davies, won yesterday's race and climbed from ten overall to third. The leader overall from going into yesterday's race was another Danish team, Flawless, but they couldn't do any better than 41st and have dropped to fourth place overall.

Second place went to the Jolle (SWE) with the Piehl brothers and Rosval, their best race of the series. 'We've done better everyday since the start' said Calle PIEHL.

The highest placed classical Dragon is My-Way (DEN) in tenth place overall.

Top Ten After Four Races

Pos	Nation	Boat	Helm/Crew/Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1	DEN	African Queen	Schönherr/Kaempe/Waldersdorph	0	11.7	5.7	10	27.4
2	DEN	Marion	Jensen/Tredberg/Lindeman	19	0	19	22	60
3	GER	Roberto	Ocker/Grosser/Davies	15	26	20	0	61
4	DEN	Flawless	Bandolowski/Hvalso/Hey	5.7	10	0	47	62.7
5	DEN	BB King	Hendriksen/Johansen/Schmidt	14	5.7	29	16	64.7
6	DEN	Nanoq	HKH Frederik/Palm/Harsberg	22	25	3	19	69
7	SWE	Lumme	Johansson/Salén/Salén	8	21	34	20	83
8	RUS	Godfather	Khopersky/Shternberg/Chugonov	16	20	49	5,7	90.7
9	GER	Sinewave	Mueller/Wagner/Paschen	11.7	27	38	27.7 (ZFP)	104.4
10	DEN	MY-WAY	Berg/Kaestel/Budde-Lund	26	15	13	57	111