There was a clear trend through both Saturday and Sunday racing for the first event of the 2017 Danish Sailing League: the Frederikshavn Seahawks were hungry after defending their 2016 title as winner of the Sailing League. When racing was about to end on Saturday, the North Jutland team of Søren Steen, Rasmus Damsgaard, Rasmus Melsen and Captain Kris Houmann were leading the fleet. There was excitement until the last race when the defending Danish champions had to defend their lead at a single point down from the KDY Sharks. The crew of Kaløvig Badelaug Cobras took advantage of opportunities on the race track, winning their last race while the crews of Frederikshavn Seahawks and KDY Sharks concentrated on beating each other. Up at the top mark, KDY Sharks looked best. But, then something happened unexpectedly, when KDY tried to sneak around the top mark, they got a red flag for hitting the mark. A disappointed skipper of KDY said afterwards, “We were penalized for touching the top mark. Bummer. The crew from Frederikshavn Seahawks took advantage of the opportunity and pulled off the overall win. Congratulations to them.” Although Frederikshavn Seahawks had a strong performance, with six firsts in eleven races, they were closely followed by Kerteminde Sejklub, who had the same number of firsts; this was their best performance in the Sailing League so far. As a result of their weather mark penalty, the KDY Sharks dropped to third place. Rounding out the top five were Skovshoved Sejklub in fourth place and Kaløvig Badelaug in fifth place. For more Danish J/70 Sailing League information, visit http://sejlsportsligaen.dk/.