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5. Baltic Sprint 2009 - Warnemünde ab 17. Juli 2009
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21.07.2009
Search for missing sailor terminated!
21.07.09 The search and rescue efforts for Sabine Juettner-Storp were ended officially at 10:00 Tuesday morning (July 21) by the Maritime Rescue Sub Centre - Bornholm. The skipper of the twelve meter long German yacht "DHH Cross-Match" was racing in the second leg of the 2009 Baltic Sprint Cup racing from Rønne, on the Danish island of Bornholm, to Västervik, Sweden, when she was lost overboard while attempting to untangle a foresail that had become fouled around a stay supporting the mast.
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Service for Sabine Jüttner-Störp at Nexø/Bornholm
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The MRSC had coordinated the efforts the seven hour search the previous day of MRSC boats, two helicopters and the fifteen Baltic Sprint Cup yachts. The search had been suspend at sunset, then taken up again by a Danish naval vessel at 4:30 the next morning. "DHH Cross-Match" and the other yachts spent the night in the habour of Nexø.
The next morning, after being interviewed by the authorities, the crew members attended a memorial for Sabine Juettner-Storp arranged at their request by the Bornholms Regionskomune. "DHH Cross-Match" intends to sail back to their home port of Glücksburg, Germany as soon as practical. The reindexing boats have not yet announced their decisions. A majority will sail to Västervik to join the boats already there. Others are considering rejoining the fleet in Swinoujscie, Poland for the last leg of the series.
Baltic Race Director, Alan Green, who had returned to Bornholm from Västervik upon hearing of the tragedy, said that the professionalism of the MRSC afloat, and the support and sympathy by the Bornholm Regional Commune ashore, has been of the highest possible level.
Baltic Sprint Cup director, Henning Rocholl, said there will be a second memorial service in Västervik on Thursday and, at the request of Sabine Juettner-Storp's family, the series will continue on Friday with the start of the next leg to Liepaja, Latvia. "Everyone is sure that it would be her wish for us to keep sailing. It was a life and sport that Sabine loved and I agree that she would not have wanted any of us to stop after this tragedy."
After the leg to Liepaja the Baltic Sprint Cup will continue to Swinoujscie, Poland and finish in Travemünde on August 1st.
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