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This is the 13th one of my series 'The Race Is On'.

This series shows images taken at the annual 'Van Loon Sailing Event' on the Lake of Veere, Zeeland, The Netherlands, the last time held on July 20th, 2019.

To know more about this event, please check-out the narrative of THIS ONE.

In order to determine who's the winner of this regatta, the participants have to sail with their boat several times a 'track'. The start and end of such a track is marked with a buoy. After passing the buoy, one has to sail in the opposite direction. In some of my images of this series therefore one can see that some boats are sailing in the opposite direction. The boat that comes first to the finish (after sailing the determined number of tracks) is not automatically the winner. Because the boats vary in size and have different sail area, first must be determined, after a complicated calculation, who really is the winner.

EDIT: referring to the below comment of both SAW and Tick, I like to add this post, in combination with this music video, as an entry for the SNATM-theme (🎥).