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This one is taken on a regatta on the Lake of Veere, Zeeland, The Netherlands, held on July 20th, 2019.
In order to determine who's the winner of this regatta, the participants have to sail 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.