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International Canoe Worlds 1972
Oxelösund (Sweden)
A report from this event, even reminiscences, would be gratefully received. I fear an attempt to translate the press cuttings into english is way beyond me.
The number of sailors who have x.75 scores (it was .75 points for first place in those days as a simple tie break) suggests a very close series, and Tord Lawner tells me that Gunnar Aggerfors was in a series winning position right up to the last two legs of the last race, when Martin Rosell managed to get close enough to take the win.
Some contemporary newspaper press cuttings/reports in Swedish: here,
here,
here,
here.
and here.
There's also an atmospheric
photograph of boats at the event on this pdf, with the notorious
rams horn tiller extensions well in evidence. Its easy to see why the
IC fleet had a rule in their SIs permitting contact between tiller
extensions decades before it became fashionable in other classes!
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