Denmark's Crown Prince Wins a Race in Key West

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark expressed his happiness with a win on Thursday for the Nanoq team in the 2009 Acura Key West Farr 40 sailing event. The Nanoq won race seven. The prince said, “it was great sailing today and it felt good to win a race. That is always difficult in this class because it is so competitive with so many good sailing teams. We have learned a lot and improved quite a bit by coming to this regatta. This result is nice, but we still have a long way to go.”

Prince Frederik’s Farr 40 boat win in race seven was mentioned in the Friday issue of Race Week News. According to a report by Bill Wagner and Rebecca Burg, “there was much rejoicing aboard Nanoq as the Danish entry pulled into its berth at the Schooner Wharf, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark hoisted a beer with crew members to celebrate winning a race in Farr 40 class for the first time in three appearances at Acura Key West.”

“Prince Frederik got a great start, got lifted by a favorable shift and both upwind legs, rounded the second windward mark in first and held the lead on the finishing run. His best previous finish was a fourth last year.”

The Nanoq finished ninth overall in the Farr 40 sailing races which ended Friday.

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